IF ROMNEY WERE ALIVE-
A MOUSE IN LONDON. If Romney were alive to-day he would bo amused and interested to poo the original home and architect's studio that Major Clough Williams-Ellis has made out of his house in llampstcad, writes a Londoner. It. was a derelict music-hall, where Marie Lloyd had appeared before she made her name, when Major "Williams-Ellis tut nod it into an Italian country house in London. What Mrs. Williams-Ellis, the authoress, l'kes best about it is her study on the roof, secure from telephones, children and domestics.
There aro sound-proof walls between tho nurseries and the other bedrooms, and bathrooms gay with " sponged" walls, whore several different paints havo boon slapped on light-heartedly with a painter s big spongo. In Major Williams-Ellis' own studio, which was also llomnoy's, thero is a winding marble stair and walls and ceiling of Italian sky-blue. All the reception rooms havo high ceilings and walls, on which this clover artistarchitect has painted draperies in shades of golden brown, yellow, and grapepurple.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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170IF ROMNEY WERE ALIVE- New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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