The modern trend in home decoration this summer points to a radical change in the air! Whereas until only yesterday modern homes displayed all their art in mixing colors — now bright, now dark — today they incline to go back a century, to the fashions of the year '33, which gave "white" the first place in the home...
And in the choosing of furniture there is a swing back from the fashions and woods of the eighteenth century to the seventeenth, with all its solidity and simplicity. The task of the craftsmen is to renew this furniture by ingenuity in coloring or polishing,
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1 - The Spanish-Oriental atmosphere (Moorish in origin) in this dining room. Notice the carpet, which is very like the mohair blanket made in northern Iraq, only white in color. The curtains are white, embroidered in blue — the chairs are Italian in style — and the whole ensemble is of the seventeenth century, with the necessary renovation.