SILVER DECORATIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17573, 25 June 1925, Page 9

SILVER DECORATIONS.

One ('f the most successful dance clubs in London attributes its prosperity, at least in part, to the beauty of its dance room. The most outstanding feature of the room is a low. bar-rel-shaped ceiling made from beaverboard, bent U> shape, divided up by means of wooden mouldings, and painted in dull silver. From it are hung star-shaped shades for the electric light; : the stars are covered in pink silk, so that the light shed on the dancers is a sort of soft, blush-rose gleam. Walls arc black, and the floor is a light parquet. Everyone can dance well in that room ! Silver should be more generally used in decoration: its effect is less insistent than that of gold, and it is easier for the inexperienced to apply with success. A woman who did not wish to incur the expense of repainting a shabby bed-room achieved a conspicuous success by sparsely stippling the existent green paint of the woodwork with an inexpensive silver paint, so that the green showed through irregularly in a highly intriguing fashion. The legs of the deal dressing table were silvered, and the top was covered with mercerised moire in parma-violet A standard lamp of wrought iron, long past its youth, was given a new lease »if life by a similar treatment with aluminium paint, which clings as veil to metal as do most paints to wood. Fork table, mats, painted in silver, and shabby picture frames likewise treated, are suggestions to keep in mind. Wicker paper baskets and linen bins also take on a festive air when a coat of silver, and possibly an ornament of coloured gesso, have been liestowed upon them. L.G.S.