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Show Some Art Temptations. Tho height of art in furniture is seldom seen to such advantage as in the rooms of the Greene-wald Greene-wald Furniture Co., at the present time, and particularly par-ticularly is this so in the High Art Department, a place set aside for the display of elegant work. Aside from its contents, tho room itself, is cosy and tastefully planned with dark green ingrain in-grain walls, a light ceiling, with a warm crimson covering on the floor, and soft lights that show tho artisan's work to tho best advantage. The most striking exhibit in the room is a small set composed of two chairs and a settee, exact reproduction of the famous Adams style of 1740. The work is copied from a painting, and differs from tho Adams only in the fact that the decorations are inlaid in white mahogany rather than painted. A very beautiful Louis XV. chair in gold leaf with damask covering stands next to this, and then a Henry XVI. drawing-room set, consisting, as the first, of a settee with chairs. These pieces are very handsome, and draw your attention more than once. Another quaintly odd piece of furniture is a Colonial bench in gold leaf, covered in silk tapestry tapes-try threaded with gold. There is just room for two to sit between the dainty sides of this affair, which would make a pretty setting for any romantic roman-tic picture. A Louis XV. chair is another clever piece of work. It is also in gold with an imported covering cover-ing of green ornamented with pink rosebuds. Massive Mas-sive and stately, yet graceful is tue furniture of l'art neuveau style. In this, there is a settee and two or three odd chairs. The pieces are solid mahogany, in the natural wood designs and rarely rare-ly beautiful. The credit of the art belongs to a woman who showed her work in this country only to be laughed pt, but who had grit enough to storm Paris with her idea. There her work was an instant in-stant success, and since then Americans havo copied it A Davenport in wax mahogany covered with denim is simple in. design, but beautiful In execution, exe-cution, as is a Colonial chair nearby. Probably the handsomest chair in the room is of solid mahogany with Dutch inlaid work, it is almost too handsome. Another pretty thing is a leather chair in tho Mission style in Spanish leather, and equally pretty is a den set in weathered oak. There are Chippendale, and Colonial and Shearton and Egyptian chairs and tables, and benches and tables and taberettes in burnt wood that would fit anywhere. An old style Colonial card table in natural and Toona mahogany is too pretty to stay where it is for any length of time, and an Empire chair is put together too cleverly to be idle long. One of tho most substantial pieces is a Colonial desk, and in this style there are any number of novelties. novel-ties. Mr. Greenwald is to be congratulated on having hav-ing collected with such skill tho temptations in his art department |
