THE LAST CHEAP ART DEVICE.
The man or woman who wants to get cheap presents has plenty of places to go to —more this year than ever before—ancl the flood of Japanese goods is larger than Cheap as are thejpaper hangings and fans and parasols which are so freely used in ninetenths of our New York houses, any artist will admit that for five cents, more real art work can now be obtained in these Japanese goods than $5 could have purchased ten years ago. The newest fashion of decorating rooms with these Japanese paper panels is to tack them on the ceilings, making a band
running all around the room about a foot from the cornice. One dealer tells me that he has sold nearly five thousand of these panels, about six feet long and six inches wide, for this purpose, a fan being used at the corners to hide the joining of two strips. The average ■ cost of such panels is about fifteen cents, so that the expense of decorating a ceiling in this fashion is not great, and the effect, judging from some specimens that I have seen, is excellent. Ten years ago not a bit of Japanese art was to be seen in the shops ; now there are at least twenty shops entirely given up to this traffic, ;.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 545, 15 July 1882, Page 3
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222THE LAST CHEAP ART DEVICE. New Zealand Mail, Issue 545, 15 July 1882, Page 3
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