GLASS HOUSES.
At a recent Ideal Home Exhibition, held in London, a glass-house designed by two students of the Liverpool School of Architecture was shown. The house could be lived in both with comfort and pleasure, for it is not transparent. The external walls are made of fluted glass bricks, four inches thick, laid on concrete. The fluting, is so arranged that no observation of the interior is possible from the outside, but light passes through the walls and is well diffused. The "house has three bedrooms, a living-room with an open fireplace and dining recess, and a sun terrace. The principal bedroom is soundproof. Interior decoration consists of glass silk for the walls and an illuminated class and steel balustraded staircase. The kitchen lias glass walls on two sides, and a long glass window. Mrs Neville Chamberlain, at the opening ceremony, described the house as a greater miracle than Cinderella’s glass slipper. She added that it should be a joy to every housewife, for it shone as Jirightlv inside as it did outside.
At tlie 'amc exhibition, lending designers showed clothes devised for women horn under certain planets. end also birthday dresses in lucky colours. It
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 290, 5 November 1938, Page 12
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