THE LATEST COLOUR.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18404, 11 August 1931, Page 5

THE LATEST COLOUR.

CATERPILLAR GREEN. The fashionable colour for decoration at the moment is caterpillar green, generally combined with something silvery, whether it be metal or mirror. Furniture is painted in this colour with very good effect, and it forms an excellent background for posies of different coloured flowers, very much conventionalised. Tho colour is also carried into materials. Dressing-tables are being made In kidney-shape with a caterpillar green top and pettlcoated -with a chintz which picks up the green. A further use for the colour is se?n in paint. Panelled rooms are painted green, and so also are plain walls. Sometimes it forms a background for large designs such as are seen in Chinese wallpapers or for decorative groups of birds or flowers. A very few splashes of colour on the green throws it up to great advantag n . Some rooms have white walls with green paint and a green frieze. White rooms have curtains of the pale green, generally heavily lined. The mirror is an important part of the colour scheme, because It tones so well with it. Sometimes a frameless mirror Is let Into the walls to make the room look larger. Silver balls are used In rooms of this kind, and the chromed metal furniture of course looks particularly well In it. A touch of warmth is sometimes Introduced. The metal chairs have natural coloured seats and backs. Sometimes the walls arc of plain wood in a warm yellowish tinge. Mirror is let into them to give the silver appearance, and the curtains and upholstery are of the caterpillar green. While this makes an ideal summer room it also never looks cold in winter weather.