SMALL WALL CUPBOARDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 143, 7 September 1927, Page 7

SMALL WALL CUPBOARDS

AN ATTRACTIVE IDEA rrHE amenable way in which elecJL ric light can be adapted to the needs of the house, either in an artistic or useful way, has brought many changes in our decorative schemes. A case in point is the small wall cupboard which, flooded with soft light in the way pictures are, now* can be made a piece of real beauty where statuettes, vases and other objects d’art are shown in an ideal background. It is a device of which the modistes have made the fullest use for dress accessories, and they have helped to popularise it in their clients' houses. In the sketch a vase of clouded blue glass is filled with tulips of clear glass, crystal flowers enjoying a heyday of popularity in Paris just now. A very modern feature is the wall decoration, which consists of a panel of inlaid wood of different kinds. POPULAR “TUB” CHAIR: The rounded “tub” armchair, which a famous Parisian modiste-decorator

has done so much to popularise, is of j polished walnut upholstered with plumcoloured corduroy. The low table is of walnut. the tea-service of heavy ribbed silver, and the curtains of primrose organdie. WALL. CUPBOARD MADE FROM A FOOD HATCH. To return to the topic of wall cupboards, one which was painted white and filled with books, occurred in a wall which has a cream background and a high border, rising from the skirting-board of delphiniums. It was originally a food hatch, because the previous owners of the house had used the room as a dining room. So the happy and economical idea of j turning the hatch into a wall cupboard i for books. It is true that a retaining wall has ( a well -defined utility in the liTly garden. But its utility becomes almost. I insignificant compared with i s charm when flowers grow literaly out of it. scenting the air, delighting the eye and blending the house with the j grounds in the softened, mellow way that flowers do.