(Continued from page 548) of be prohibitive; one could add to {ft gradually; and with microscope, camera and. telescopic lenses the eld of enquiry opened up would keep one busy all the year round, Modern English Furniture 'The White City, easily reached by fleet of motorbuses plying continually between it and Olympia, is chledy' devoted to. furniture "and textiles. T have written so much about modern English furniture and the many beautiful woods that the craftsmen now employ that I need of enlarge on it. This section, however, shows all the best that our furniture-makers can produce and it very good. From, the crude nakedness of the early "modernism, a definite style is gradually being evolved." One might not like it to live with so much as the old, but undoubledly it grows upon onéand becomes more and more restful, suggesting a cal, artistic purpose instead of a mere freak.
As for the textiles, woollen cloth cottons, rayons, mixed rayons cottons, even Solomon in all glory was scarcely arrayed in any thing more gorgeous. The designs are as lovely as the workmanship is perfect, and to anyone with a senso for colour, to walk among. thes shimmering many-hued fabrics sheer aesthetic delight.
Prominent among them are some of the stuffs that will be used in the 'Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary <for the stage curtains of her theatre a rose-tinted rayon and cot-mixture with a silver shade for the cocktail bar hangings in stripes' of green and. brown: bedspreads of yellow. splashed with brown and red; and. carpets into which, as the saying goes, one sinks ankle' deep. One of these, for the great lounge measures 40ft. by 26ft. and weighs over a ton, Castle Bromwich Exbibiti A few notes may be added from the reports of Castle Bromwich, I fear T shall not got there, At the fest Tale held the exhibits occupied 85,000 eq, ft. This year they occupy 200,000, which is 16,000 sq. ft. more than last. year, Put in terms that one can visualize there is room in the hall for 25 football. pitches, but (adds one correspondent) only Just, room for the 1090 "exhibitors, "Their numbers have steadily Increased year by year, which is proof enough that the Fait ays them well, Here are to be soon all kinds of hardware goods, great power press bollers, furnaces and engines of every ' description, reflecting the prosperity of the sleet and machinery tries which Is making the Mid-ands happy.
Sheer Ingenuity, {00, in things useful about the house Is wall represented, for I read in the Morning Post" that among the novelties fs a noiseless bucket, Invented by a woman: an automatically' locking slop-ladder designed by a builder who once fell off one; and a 24-hour arum clock which illuminates Itself at midnight and switches off at eight in the morning.
With the fashion parades, held in a specially arranged theatre at Olympia, T do not fect equal to cope, Here on a long raised walk, reached by descending stairs "from a little stage above, on which the man. sequins first display themselves, every imaginable confection is paraded before hundreds of eager connoisseurs wedding gowns, night gowns, ball owns, bridge gowns, sports costumes, faller-mades, shopping suits, beach pyjamas and sulking 'néeliges.
I wonder how long it takes to require the mannequin saunter, 1 wonder how many hours were do-voted to sewing the 45,000 sequins on that evening frock. The male imagitation, which knows that a single button is to be sewn on only. with great care and stentorous breathing, is absolutely paralyzed at the mere idea,
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