New Ideas in Decoration

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19313, 1 May 1937, Page 10

New Ideas in Decoration

pLOWER- containers, matched to the exact tint of the walls or rccep tion rooms, so that they act as an unobtrusive background for flower nr rnngeinonts, are the new ideas in Britain, A range of these bowls arm vases in classical designs are made of white Devon clay baked to give a deep cream tone and glazed only inside Women have the unglazed outside tonod to the pastel shade of their drawing-room. Narrow mantelpieces, rooms where only wall vases can be used, and arrangements of leaves and berries each call for special vases. Wall vases of pottery are piercen at the back and should Ire secured to the wall where they are standing on narrow mantelpieces. Box - shaped bulb containers have been designed to hold the wooden boxes in which Indoor gardeners have started their hyacinths and daffodils, so that the pots are kept cool and undisturbed. Greek lamps have been copied in pottery because their length and shallowness make them ideal for the trails of branches that hostesses are using in country-house decoration, Already the vase cupboards are being stocked with Coronation containers. One of these, featuring the crown supported by lions, lias been designed to hold massed roses, the favourite flower for May decoration. Little washing baskets of wickerwork fitted wit-h metal containers are an alternative to the posy ring and the glass trough for table decoration.