STRIPES FOR DECORATION.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20219, 1 February 1934, Page 6

STRIPES FOR DECORATION.

Stripes make for gaiety. The tiger is gayer than the lion and the zebra gayest of all. Stripes, therefore, have invaded interior decoration of lateand have offered results which need not necessarily imitate the zebra, though they oftetn do. Some of them run into curtains and covers of all kinds. The stripes are not used as a printed design on the stuff, but as though strips of colour were sewn together to make a whole. Thus some curtains have stripes or zones of colour about a foot wide which run slantwise across the stuff and offer all sorts of colour harmonies. Sohe charming curtains were used in an otherwise simple room in zones of yellow, orange and yellowpink, giving a sort of sunset effect. On the curtains they were on the bias; on the bed-cover they were in zig-zags. The bed was of striped wood in a light tone, and the floor was carpeted with light rugs upon which was a slight black design. The stripes gave a pleasant glow to the room. Stripes were further a feature of the furniture. Australian walnut provided beautiful parallel lines in the natural wood, and these lines dominated the furniture and compelled it into the way of simplicity. A large cupboard had downward stripes with’ slantwise edges. The bed had horizontal stripes. The “ dressing table” was merely a shelf of the wood set on the wall before a mirror. The general effect of the room was one of colour and of simplicity, although actually all the colour was contained in the textiles. Stripes are much used now for doors and window frames. A white house may have striped doors, rather on the ines of Swiss shutters, which allow of the plainest possible lines in the house and are enhanced thereby.