CHOCOLATE BOXES
ARTISTIC DESIGNS
Great pains are taken nowadays to provide women with that great source of pleasure, variety (says the London (Daily Telegraph 1 . A small but flourishing trade now exists in handsome chocolate boxes which can be used after the contents are eaten to ornament a lady’s dressing table. The centre of this industry is Paris, and t'he beautiful tinted silks employed are embroidered, by skilled needlevtomen or are hand-painted and signed by artists. Even an artist v'hose work has been hung in the Louvre has been known to decorate boxes for favoured clients, who will pay eight guineas or more for the privilege. An average price for a 51b hand-painted box is, however, four guineas. 'Since the war fewer people are prepared to pay double or treble the price of the chocolates for the sake of the box, and a fashion ha s consequently been created for charming boxes covered with fancy paper and decorated with lar&p bows of ribbon. Each season ha s ’its fancies in this as in other trades, and last year there was quite a run on a prettiliy-'woven basket of chocolates which could aftenvards be used for needlework.k
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Waipa Post, Volume 31, Issue 1766, 5 June 1926, Page 6
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196CHOCOLATE BOXES Waipa Post, Volume 31, Issue 1766, 5 June 1926, Page 6
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