NOVEL DECORATIONS
Many hostesses in Mayfair are turning to the English countryside to provide them with novel decorations.
A clever woman in Burlington Gardens has ransacked Kent and Sussex hedgerows for interesting groups of ''dead' flowers and fruits, and when these are required for white or off-white rooms they can be painted or whitewashed to tone. Fir cones, dried seed pods, eucalyptus, dates, skeleton leaves and honesty sprays are arranged for Mrs. Ivor Back, the wife of the well-known surgeon, and Mrs. Somerset Maugham. The latter- varies them with silver-painted iili<s_s_aml_ glass icicles.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21717, 5 February 1934, Page 3
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93NOVEL DECORATIONS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21717, 5 February 1934, Page 3
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