New Trends in Home Decoration and Electric Ovens
A feature on fashioning interiors with lace patterned blinds and dramatic foyer styling. Designers Randall E. Kenny and Charles N. Meyer promote bold, glittering decor and two tone tapes while General Electric previews built in electronic ovens for 1958 with rapid roasting capabilities and advance orders planned.
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Basic Rules Of Design Color For Comfortable Home
Comfortable home design blends function with style for family life. It stresses privacy, adaptable spaces, durable fabrics, and balanced color schemes using two main colors plus an accent. Test swatches in daylight and lamplight before final purchases.
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Seafoam Blue Room Showcases One-Color Living Space
New York department store demonstrates a cohesive blue living room in seafoam shades. Walls carpets and upholstery feature blue tones with champagne silk drapes and a white desk. Overstuffed chairs and sofa use textured blue fabrics. a white painted chair and gilded iron candelabra add period detail.
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Famous Designers Inject Drama In Show At Market Chicago
The International Home Furnishings Market in Chicago showcased Milo Baughman John Van Koert Edward Wormley and Jo Mead among interior decorators and artists bringing bold ideas to home interiors. Mead promotes large three dimensional wall pieces like Parthenon friezes and padded wall decorations while Baughman introduces tall low and mid height pieces with new back styles and striking color schemes mixing blues greens browns golds and oranges to create dramatic yet restful spaces.
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Provincial With Plaid Is Unique
A New York furniture display pairs plaid with provincial pieces in bedroom and dining room settings. Furniture designer John Van Koert and Edgart Wormley showcase silver-inspired wood lines with sculptured forms and silver-plated drawer pulls. Modern, Scandinavian-influenced designs feature sable walnut finishes and stack-on cabinets designed to suit the average woman.
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Edwant Wormley
Wrought-iron Bench Named Empress Embodies Decor Trend
A decorative four sway wrought-iron bench with curved ends appears across homes from bathrooms to living rooms and bedrooms. The piece, often labeled Empress or Empire, features brass feet or knobs and offers cushions in charcoal, gold, pink, or turquoise tweed.
Paris Inspired Window Treatments Debut at Major Store
Paris correspondent Nora W. Martin reports a large Paris department store showcased 40 window dressing ideas. Heavy fabrics and white sheer curtains dominated, with leopard patterns, tartan tweed drapes, corduroy options, two red dog-collar trims, and new quilting trims on drapes.
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