A' SILVER SETTING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19959, 17 November 1934, Page 20

A' SILVER SETTING

NOVEL DECORATIVE SCHEME When planning a new scheme of decoration for your dining room you probably have never considered makinguse of small squares of silver paper like chocolate wrappings. It may sound like the stage setting for a Ruritanian palace, but the result of this novel furnishing idea, which forms part of the new' decorations at Grosvenor House Restaurant, is delightful, says an English Exchange, Thirty-five thousand of these small silver sheets have been used to paper the tail pillars arranged at intervals against the walls of the room. They have all been pasted on by hand, dull surface uppermost. A pleasing shadowy effect is given instead of the rather cold note usually associated with metal decorations. The pillars, by the way. are actually cunningly devised ventilators by means of which the air is conditioned in the newest and most approved hygienic manner. This soft and shadowy effect is repeated in the mirrored walls. Instead of the usual -‘looking-glasses” in which outlines are reflected with minute and sometimes unkind exactitude, these mirrors have been lecquered with silver so that colours and indistinct forms are reflected, rather than features. Pearly-grey dull satin draperies frame the mirrored sections, and are lined with heavy w'ool fabric to deaden noises from outside. The dual scheme of illumination includes a golden-bowled fountain lighting in the ceiling which floods the W'hole restaurant in brilliant sunlight and clustered w'all lamps which send out amber glows from the tops of multi-coloured striped glass tubes.