Lighting Schemes

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18581, 15 December 1934, Page 10

Lighting Schemes

CO important has the lighting .ol rc.©option rooms become in the home decoration scheme of the modern hostess that individual arrangements are now made for all important interiors, writes a London expert, ihese involve detailed plans of a scries of lights and shades, painted lit the chosen colors, for each room boiorc the hostess will decide upon her electric lighting. One artist in lighting is asking her clients to bring with them pieces of the chintz or patterned material to he used for curtains and covers in each reception room, in_ order that shades for table and reading lamps may be designed' with an exactly similar pattern upon silk of a harmonising shade. Usually the pattern on the lamp shade is carried out in white upon a ground of the principal room color. Mrs Dudley Ward was one of the pioneer hostesses in the fashion for table and standard lamps. Centre lights have been abolished. Where sconces are used they are either painted with a replica of the chintz design, or edged w T ith pieces of old Irish lace. Two new ideas in table lamps arc suggested' by Lord Bectivo, the electrical expert. One is a little tree of alabaster with branches of semiprecious stones, provided with a specially treated “crackled” parchment silk shade; these lamps were formerly made only in China, but are now n British production.

The other is a table lamp upon a wrought ironwork base, painted white, as designed originally for a member ol' a European Royal house with modernistic tastes.