THE NEWEST FLOWERS.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15887, 27 July 1923, Page 2

THE NEWEST FLOWERS.

We have all laughed at the huge conch-shells which stud the chimneypieces of seaside lodgings, but it has remained to the adaptive brain of a famous Paris decorator, whose • shop is in the Rue Royal, to create from commPn sea-shells, small and large, the most fascinating ornaments (says a writer in the Westminister Gazette”). A tub filled w' th hydrangeas of delicate mauve, pink, j bhie, and silvery white blooms stands in one corner of the showroom.. You draw near to examine its out-of-season beauty, and find that each perfect petal is form’ed from one of the small, thumb-nail shaped shells common on our own beaches, but enamelled in a shimmering lacquer finish. In jars are arranged huge poppies of mysterious purple made from scallop ■ shells, and in smaller bowls are grouped realistic anemones in the pink and mauve tints of nature, the curious crinkled effect of the real anemone petal beduplicated by the fluting of the shells. We are shown a dining-table of which the mirrored centre stimulates a lake, on which float swans of silver whiteness, entirely made from shells, the wings wrought of overlapping shells. On the artificial water also swim amusing goldfish in tlie rich red 7 gold of the Versailles carp.