FASCINATING TABLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1027, 18 July 1930, Page 5

FASCINATING TABLE

NOVELTIES IN GLASS

The table, iu a description of a dinner given by a distinguished London hostess, had the bowl and candlesticks of wine-coloured glass, shot with dull gold. The candles were of a soft shade of blue to match the glass flowers in the bowl, and the wine glasses and finger bowls were of thin clear wine-coloured glass. The dinner service to match was of a deep ivory colour with a band of winecolour, outlined with gold. The newest idea in glass fashions is the coffee-set in coloured glass. Plain coloured coffee cups and saucers in delicate rainbow tinted glass vie with gaily decorated glass sets healing fruits and flower designs. Each coffee-set, to be quite smart, must have its attendant tray and coffee jug in painted glass to match.

The cubist trend of fashions in glassware is producing a fascinating collection of glass. Lamps are shown in pyramids with acute angles, with pyramid-shaped vases to match. For the modern dining-room the choice may be made between square turn!) lers of opaque glass and slightly fanshaped water glasses. There is something very attractive about the table centre-pieces of glass in these cubist designs. One centrepiece of clouded parchment-coloured glass consists of six oblong cubes each placed an inch higher than the other, so that, they form a series of steps, each “step” containing differ ent. flowers made of glass.

Flower baskets in green opaque glass are another novelty that will tempt the gift-lover. They stand about seven inches high, and are just the right shape to hold a little posy of small flowers. Glass ash-trays made of coloured opaque glass, with a little figure of au animal standing up In the middle of each, are also most attractive.