moment, at least for interior de-ceration at Home is a metal, and that metal is silver, There are innumerable shades of silver, including nickel with its dark, warm tint and aluminium with its flat white tone, Silver corners were for a time very much in vogue, and them the lighting of the room was usually concealed. At the moment silver ceilings are seen. These give a very charming light to the room and throw becoming shadows upon faces. Sometimes whole a shade of tarnished within two fect of the coiling. The ceiling itself and the top of the walls may be in bright apple green. Silver cushions are very much used. These generally take a steely or a tarnished shade. Metal furniture, of course, adds to the silver ap-Fearance, and bookcases, tables chairs are all made of nickel, while juminium is used with which to coat heavy' pieces of furniture such pianos or cupboards, The silver tall is now almost a commonplace. It is hung up as were the old witehballs or the ball on the top of a 'a Chrismas tree. To this must be added a range of silver vases. Sometimes these are shiny, like the inside of a thermos flask. Sometimes they are crackled or dull. As a rule they are in a rather white tone of iver, and they may contain silver flowers made of the came
silver. glass. Finally, books are bound in
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