HOW NEW YORK WINDOWS ARE DRAPED.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 9, 28 February 1891, Page 14

HOW NEW YORK WINDOWS ARE DRAPED.

Jay Gould's windows have green shades and show inside curtains of dainty muslin, very plain. In Austin Coi bin’s house Mrs Corbin has curtains in the drawing-room of white and gold brocade. In Mrs Levi P. Morton’s house the windows are curtained with the finest scrim, edged with torchon lace. The Whitney home has artistic windows of elaborately stained glass, and inside are seen curtains of crimson velvet with lining of old gold. In Mrs Marshall O. Roberts’ windows fall lace curtains embroidered with birds and butterflies, and behind fall draperies of pale rose coloured silk. At the Belmont house first are heavy plain white linen shades, and inside heavy crimson curtains of silk rep. There is no attempt at ornamentation. General Sherman does not believe in lace curtains. • They are always in the way,’ he says. So the house has only plain shades, except in Rachel's room, which is embroidered in lace. Mrs William Astor’s windows are pictures of elegant simplicity. Every window in the big house, from top to bottom, back and front, is curtained with snow-white muslin curtains, daintily embroidered by hand. Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt has the fifty windows of her mansion draped with Russian lace of a very large, open pattern. Within these are draperies of the finest Brussels lace, in patterns as delicate as the tracery of frostwork. In Mrs Paran Steven’s windows the inside shades are of red holland, brilliant, blazing, fiery red, edged with white lace four inches deep, and inside are Madras curtains of yellow and crimson, touched here and there with blue. Mrs Sloane, Mrs William H. Vanderbilt and Mrs Shepard have curtains alike. They are of old Venetian antique lace, and were made abroad by order of W. H. Vanderbilt, sen., at a cost of £2OO each. Two are required for each window.