Maps to Decorate a Lobby

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)

Maps to Decorate a Lobby

A new way of decorating a small lobby is to use maps, observes an English expert in house decoration. These may be painted on the walls by those skilled in such things, but a simpler method is to collect perhaps reproductions of old maps, perhaps new, and paper the walls with them, giving them, if necessary, a transparent coat of varnish to lend them coherence. The i" i , mft y a eollection of maps V«L h " ave een collected gradually, lhe counties of England may form one system, and reproductions of old maps, such as are issued bv the British Museum, are extremely decorative. The countries of Europe may be another ni u ?i —' an . 18 more interesting as being more local, large-scale maps of tHe locality have an immediate appeal.