The Archive · 1939

Adapting the Scheme

Rough textured wallpap rs in an old ivory colour are practical, although they are a light colour they do not show dirt easily The rest of the scheme was built up on the two main colours. We decided on a carpet patterned in blue and green on a fawn ground as being better for wear than a plain one.

Curtains and pelmet could be turquoise, with glass curtains of pale chairs could be upholstered in a fawn moquette or tapestry with a small pattern in darker fawn or brown; this neutral colour would give full value to the peach, turquoise and gold cushions.

I would choose peach tinted glass or parchment for the lamp shades in this room; they shed a most becoming pink glow over the walls at night.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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