Very up-to-date are nursery counterpanes made of coarse coloured canvas, with several thick woolly animals worked into the two long sides as a border. Head and foot of the coverlet are left unadorned, but where the sides hang down over the edge of the bed, Teddy Bears and bunnies; the cat and her kittens and the dog and pups are represented by means of tufted woolwork, like th stitches done in rug-moking An intermingling of the old new, sometimes in striking and exotic combinations, lends an exciting no to the new ideas in interior decoration this year in New York, Rene Scudamore in the "Observer It is often the eighteenth century English theme that gives has dignity, made modern and fresh by indirect lighting, large nurrored wall spaces, and treatment of windows. Painted Venetian pieces or lacquered and gold furniture of Italian and Chinese origin will be tanked by modern lamps with pleated white shades. Modern glass and chromium cockt=il tables, or those fashioned of ancient scagolia tops, on a newly designed base in bronze, pewter, or wood, stand in front of overstuffed sofas The sofas are on simplified lines, covered in p brocatelles, quilted taffetas, or gaily flowered chintzes.
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