SIDEBOARDS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3860, 6 March 1928, Page 67

SIDEBOARDS.

A QUEEN ANNE DRESSER. '

By

Phillida.

J ou wer e to ask me which is the easiest room in the house to furnish 1 would answer you—the dining room. Why? Because this room has only one reason tor existing, and that is, to meal in. Therefore its requirements being limited to essentials lineloum, a dinner wagon, sideboard, an extending dining table six or eight chairs, possibly a couch, and perhaps two or three pictures, everything

included in its furnishings having a well-understood use, everything its proper place. One’s thoughts require to be centred only on colour scheme and period. Because of its very formality it becomes necessary to make very careful choice of suitable and attractice pieces of furniture. What is known as “ Period ” furniture i s eminently suitable for this room— *’ Queen Anne ” — ‘‘ Jacobean ” — “ Windsor ” — Adam ” — “ Louis Quinze ” — “ Hepplewhite,” and a host of other periods. Here in Dunedin we have only to see “ Tudor Hall ” to realise the beauty and dignity that “ period ” furniture imparts to a dinijig room. For the small -dining room a dresser, such as is shown in the illustration makes a picturesque and homely-looking sideboard. It does not convey the idea of overeating, as did the old Victorian sideboard, nor does it give that impression over plain living and high thinking inspired by some of the twentieth century craftsmen. Ono has to admit that it recalls the farmhouse kitchen, but it is none the worse for ali that. The relationship of dining table and side table—or side-

that of principal and secondary service. Dishes required at dinner which coulTnLt :L^ot P heV a ub^neT:h t e 1 w e a n 0a hand It was only in Victorian times that the sideboard lost its main use and be came a piece of constructive decoration. Nowadays, with the return to the old oims, w € have restored the real function of this necessary piece of furniture No dining room is complete without something in the way 7f a sideboard and the b f 6 aFe th ° S< \ Up ° n the ° ld °" e ' And > remember, it is eh r, A r T MI r °? m n a , dher . e -° a sty,e - The oak dresser demands oak chairs. A Geoigtan sideboard calls for chairs of the same origin, and so on.