Paris Revives An Old Favourite Fabric hung walls are taking â; frescos, and pastoral scenes are new lease of life in Paris after a] fashionable. Then there are bunches considerable period of unpopularity All manner of unexpected materi are employed, and very often the furniture is upholstered match. This stresses the modern effect intended. of flowers, which are certainly agreeable to live with. A fourth wall contrasting in colour from the other three can be effective. One shaded {pink wall comes with a~ cream scheme of decoration in a room For a drawing-room, heavy mieux rose silk, patterned with brown mi where the furniture is covered in pink leather. chine-stitched true-lover's knots, is Straw walls are very novel. Closely suggested, and the furniture—of pa cked, it is machine-stitched to obhighly-polished brown wood—is tain a striped effect. It might be covered en suite. In another draw-used in a study or modern dininging-room the walls are done with room, velvet in two shades of pink, worked in an enormous flour-de-lys design.
A thin silk cord separates the two A Capable Dry Cleaner colours most effectively. Here the The Pride Dry Cleaning Ca, Inc., extremely modern furniture is upholstered in chocolate-coloured satin.
6 Avenue Foch, at the Seymour Road, corner, welcomes visitors and a attract cee hung [Mu Ae Hall, the manager, promises with white satin, by means of thin|% SHOW them what should happen Hips of gold wood. A.divan bed '° their clothes when they visit a and two unusual chairs—with high, wide backs and stubby legs—are also ach article is first tagged, then with satin These are|#0ne over for small repairs, which checked with the finest gold braid e effected on the premises. The There is a sienna carpet in this next move is to a big vat in which room, and the green satin curtains the dry dust is gently beaten out. are printed with a lily-of-the-valley After this, "spotter," armed with pattern. special soap and chemi removes all stains, Young girls rooms have been De-spotted, the article enters a charmingly designed. A coarse weave um, working on the principle of a of natural linen, embroidered with washing machine and containing 100 a red heart design, covers both walls and furniture in one bedroom. In S@llons of gasoline, which removes another, red cited cretonne, pat-[all dirt.
It is then rinsed in another terned with beige stars, is used for|drum. In yet another it is dried, and the walls and to upholster the|#fter this again carefully looked over bright blue painted furniture und examined. A deodorizing cham-'There are some people who still|ber next deals with it, and it is prefer painted walls. For these new|finished by being automatically ideas have been worked out. Cream walls are often given originality with a picture painted on one of them. These paintings resemble pressed.
The Pride Ca, also runs a dyeing plant, under expert management and using dyes guaranteed to last.
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