TRIANGULAR FURNITURE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22166, 20 July 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)

TRIANGULAR FURNITURE

FILLING CORNER SPACES The exiguous nature of the modern home finds its logical conclusion in the forms of furniture designed to fit it, and in centuries ahead stuQents of sociology should bo able to deduce from them some valuable data bearing on the conditions under which the twentieth century family was housed. To-day flat and flatlet demand in their paucity of accommodation that not a squaro inch of space be wasted. Hence the ingenuity of the pieces of modern furniture, specially contrived with a view to extracting from the corners of rooms the greatest possible degree of utility. They aro necessarily triangular in shape, but if perfect adaptation to purpose be an essential factor in beauty, this in no way lessens their claim to satisfactory effect. They concentrato interest in what in more spacious days were the neglected areas of the room and incorporate them successfully in the general scheme. With the aid of a triangular fitment a corner may now house a comprehensive bureau with its pigeon-holes at right angles and a series of triangular shelves below the desk-top to talce books of reference. On cither side of the bureau are ranged lockers or shelves, or both, encroaching 011 the wall-space just so far as other furnishings may encourage. The unit troughs which to-day constitute so important a portion of modern furnishing schemes link up with a triangular corner cupboard to develop whatever form of arrangement may appear most convenient. l*or those who still. cling to objects for decorative display there are the clemicubos in different dimensions, cut across diagonally to form in combination a series of graduated steppes 011 which to arrange a collection of modern glass, of pottery, of bronzes, what you will.