Show FRESH BEAUTY AND IN THIS CENTURY'S PERIOD FURNITURE POSSESSES DIGNITY AND RESTRAINT f S 6 i t Ek j s t iL S' S ayr I I P i i J y II u i i ft s J i k e t t I J V vL l lN p f r a ori w Ift r G r h The fresh beauty and nov novelty of appointment of Paul Baumgarten's modern bed chamber By VIRGINIA SWAIN NEW KEW YORK March 17 NEA- NEA Aw Away y with slavery to the past The twentieth century will have Its way in furniture as In dress manners and and Out of tine the babble of decorators and dealers gone mad over antiques antiques an comes one loud protest Paul Baumgarten famous designer has prepared an exhibit for the Architectural and Allied Arts Ex- Ex position which will show the world what can be done In decoration without dependence upon an any previous pre pre- ious period or style The modern bedroom is drawing drawIng draw draw- Ing the admIration of at crowds at the Grand Central Palace by the fresh beauty and novelty of Its appoInt appoInt- ments Unlike many examples of new art it has dignity and restraint The modern style need not be grotesque says sas Mr 1 Baumgarten The expert can handle it with all the delicacy and refinement he would show in using period furniture Distortion blatant coloring general general gen gen- eral disregard for the niceties of refined re- re refined fined modern living are no more correct in the decorative use of the modern style than they ever were in the best styles of any period The weIrd wild and freakish effects effects ef- ef which the world associates with futurist art are ale merely the errors errors er- er or of incompetent interpreters Mr 11 Baumgarten belIeves His modern be bedroom room Illustrates the attitude ot of the new art to line mass mass and color First of all the room contains no perfect curves that is arcs or circles circles cir cir- cles or other geometrIc curves that can be drawn by machine Every curve is drawn freehand with a grace and flow that the old conventional curves jacked In the fireplace especially the new curves were used to give an effect of wideness wide fide ness and graciousness in a very small space The foot of at the bed is very gently curved A mirror over a cabinet has a fold five bevel with hand hand- drawn curves The rho canopy over the bed Is draped to o suggest luxury without being oppressive in its rich rich- ness The The room shows regard for mass proportions Its objects are beautiful beautiful ful In themselves because ot of their mass and outline not because of any applIed ornamentation borrowed from the old scho In color the room is typically modern It uses bright clear colors and new woods In modern art you OU must have true colors says Mr 11 Baumgarten The colors of all the great periods have been real Twenty five years year s ago ii we used to tone down our old fabrics and antique tapestrIes to sa satisfy a jaded and degenerate taste and to be surE that our real antiques could not be mistaken for modern At At the same time we made our modern so pale in intone tone that today they look like washed out faded rags Nowadays we wash and scrub and clean our antiques in the vain hope of bringing brIng brIng- inS inS' back the glory of color that once once was theIrs Yr Why Are we we all being led astray by the demand for new and bright color effects Far from it We e are are just returning to normal Science has made possible the use of many new colors which will wiH produce produce pro pro- duce results never beure equalled in beauty and glory The modern bedroom has haR walls waIls of silver paper in an invisible checkerboard checkerboard checker checker- board pattern Against these are panels of silk with white tUlips prInted on a black background ground Bed Bcd and window draperies are ot of emerald taffeta edged with fringe The counterpane is o of silver cloth and the pane curtains oJ of silver silver The gauze high alsted draperies of the wIndows give a new line that Is most refreshing The carpet Is a cheni chenille le of silver taupe with a shaded border In small details the room finds Its Its- greatest charm The t tassels at atthe the sIdes of the bed canopy repeat the tulip motif motU of oC the wall panels of the cabinets are scrolls ot of silver with a center of at jet to match the jet studs that head the fringe of the draperIes Altogether from the velvet chaise lounge with its jaded lady doll to hIe tho white b bear ar r rugs gs tra trailing up up- up the steps of the tho dais to the bed the room Is one to live In I It is sensuouS without being bein ul gar with the smart sophistication of the twentieth century |