Show Padded a e d W Walls a II s A Are re S Spring rin g N Novelties ave I- I ties Cake Mrs J Baling Baking H. H Schenk for Family Enjoys 1 N NEW W VORK Padded YORK Padded walls are not as crazy as they sound They're one one- of the many delightful delight delIght- ful ul things modern designers are doing with walls walIs and wood wood finIshes finishes fin tIn for people who seek a novel change from paint and paper Gilbert Rohde designed the padded walls walIs which are pictured They're made of simulated leather leath leath- er tucked over separate padded squa squares e. e and could be easily re reproduced reproduced reproduced re- re produced and installed by your- your neighborhood upholsterer The color he chose for the room was creamy cafe au to serve as a striking background for m modern dern furniture The latter pieces created in the new dusty finish by Swedish Designer Jan are of soft middle- middle shade walnut The wood pattern shows up well In all nIl lights Two cabinets against the dark wall are cleverly arranged for wardrobe storage space On the opposite wall are two bookshelf units with cabinet space for a ra ra- dio A desk and chair with open arms stand opposite opposite- the day Two more cabinet units for linens linens are are placed in the dinette One entire wall wallin in another new room room room-a a bedroom Is Is hung from floor to ceiling with a modern cotton fabric striped sage-green sage and white The other three walls are papered in an of white off with witha a big design of lines and circles Its It's surprising what a pleasant background the full soft fabric makes make y t s s tg n y ya a 6 S x xv M fi fiA v r a J. J A screen of poles decorated with pots of g ivy a wall padded instead of papered or painted give Gilbert Rohdes Rohde's room above nov elty and distinction The padded wall is made of simulated leather in a creamy cafe au tone tu to eked over separate squares The Swedish walnut furniture is bleached a soft grayed middle tone that shows off the wood grain In another room one wall is covered with a rough new wood- wood fiber that looks almost like fresh bark Its It's novel and Inexpensive and stylish as well Walls draped with fabric or papered with It are Ware also havIng having having hav hav- ing a vogue in traditional rooms In a recent exhibition this theme revolved around a line from Samuel Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel diary I bought my wife a chintz for to hang on her wall Against a wall hung with white printed flower-printed chintz stood a slender ebony poster four-poster flounced and canopied In crisp white organdie Another new room has all four walls walIs papered in white off-white chintz with an an old cage basket design sketched In lines of red Modernized period furniture bleached to the tone of old fruitwood fruitwood fruitwood fruit- fruit wood i is used here The new walls walIs call for new and novel furniture arrangements make particularly effective backgrounds backgrounds backgrounds back back- grounds for soft wood tones One suite in the new grayed or dusty walnut has ebony ana and white ash worked out In checkerboard checkerboard check check- squares In another group walnut and olive burl burl burl- both bleached almost almos white white- are used together in furniture designed along William and Mary lines Several new bedrooms use wood of ot soft middle shades shades- with white painted wood while another another another an an- other points up the soft gray tones blue leather One particularly interesting living living living liv liv- ing room group is inlaid with strips of white holly |