Show Gracious Curves Taking the Place Of Hard Cold Lines of Yesterday By MARIAN YOUNG NEW YORK YORK The The newest modern furniture now featured in midsummer furniture sales shows a tendency among designers of Modern to lo drift away from the cold square lines toward toward toward to to- ward gracious pleasing sing curves even curves even carvings The rather unlovely packing case lines of Early Modern so prevalent a few years ago are seldom seen New V wood finishes also are headlined And decorators decorator and interior designers continue to advocate the combination of Modern and traditional traditional traditional furniture in the same room In walnut walnut always always a widely used wood in the Modern Modern the the- newest of the bleached finishes is off Alone or combined with natural walnut or other woods this new blond tone is lovely ovely against the increasingly popular pastel fabrics and wall paints or pa papers rs Black walnut also is used for the new more grac gracefully designed modern pieces And between between be be- tween th the white off-white and the black there is suntan suntan suntan sun sun- tan a smart smarr between in-between shade which is a riper version of the old harvest harve t tones t s. hi-s. WAI r iff Interesting modern pieces are done in oak Theres There's off white off white and natural bleached to a soft canary tone Also rose-quartz rose which has hasa a rosy glow And the slate slate gray gray oak for elegant ele ele- elegant gant sophisticated decoration schemes Cordovan a new mahogany finish is deeper than blood ox-blood red and usually is highly pol pol- Another novelty is s bleached mahogany with sky-blue sky paint rubbed into it Off white Off white is shown also in mahogany Modern vanity tables are much simpler than they were a few years ago The new types are designed from a functional point of view and they dont don't make a woman feel like a movie star in disguise when she sits before one of them Decorators continue to put the dresser bases in modern bedrooms side by side along one wall Twin beds with a common headboard increase increase increase in in- crease in popularity day by day Boudoir chairs and chaises are lighter in Jn line often with legs as finely curved and tapering as any Sheraton designed And upholstered pieces for the living living living liv liv- ing room are deep and comfortable without being bulky t. t I. I I. I l l w |