Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-04-29 | Page 19 | The Extreme of Pompadour Furniture

t-f -- t -re -r-i-f"r - I oe ximne of Pompaaour Tumiture f-r- -t-r 'f-t-f-f-f 4 4- 4..-T-f ST- "v - 4-f-f It does not matter In the least how much King James oak or Wnshlng-Ionian Wnshlng-Ionian mahogany Is used In tho llbron, reception and drawing-rooms or the proper!) furnished couutr) houses, the sleeping apirtmcnts must bo trcate I with u lighter hand lhus spoke the first nuthoilty In America on Interior decoration, who hold that though we ma) go back to older England und to our own colonial periods for modcli In living rooms, It Is to tho Trench vvc must cling for the highest tdeuls In the llttlng or bed clinmbeis ' Tho 1'iench know exactly what a bed chamber ought to be, ' said thi eminent emi-nent decorator 'It must first or all icpresmt deliclously gru) und chrcrlul strenlt), absolute .Implicit) and stand complete without superfluous furniture, hangings, etc A bedroom should for hi tilth's sako never be used as 11 sitting-room, sitting-room, for health sake It ought to bo also an Inspi ""n to hlKh spirits und pood temper, and again for health sake It should cell) formal nnd al most spare in the amount of fitting einplo)cd This sensible and healthful philosophy of furnlshlr has Insensibly taken 11 Arm hold on tho fancy of American cnuntry-hniise p prletors, and today tho dghtccnth century Trench or marquise bediooni rurn ttiro Is used In nil the line homes In the big or little totintr) estates The wall papers, woodwork, curtains, cur-tains, carpets und furnltuie nre nil cither Impoited directly from Trance or can be bought from our own factories where tho most perfect lople of Louis XV. nnd I.ouls XVI models are turned out After U)ng many formi or the eighteenth eight-eenth eentur) Trench household goods, ru)s an exchange, the choke Just now has settled nn tho hiquered wood nnd glided cano of Madoine till lltrry period ond perhaps tho finest example of Ihis sDIc Is owned by Mis Chaunriy t" Depevv who is learned In Trench decorative period-, und vvno received a unlon-dld unlon-dld du Harry set ns ti wedding present