| Show MRS IRS VANDER BILTS BATHROOM an apartment beautiful enough for harte marie antoinette herself according to shenew the sew york world tha the bathroom in which aira birs W K vanderbilt performs her morning ablutions is the most beautiful in new york wealth taste art research all aro are combined moet most prodigally in its ideal effects II 11 al hunt the architect considers it the triumph of his lie life everything architectural within its precincts la ia parity and perfection itself ie to begin with the room ia is in tho the most advantageous location in the big mansion at fifty first street t and fifth avenue it is large cool an and d with perfect ventilation extending around the room is ahagh a high marble wain perfectly plain plains except for a band bind of onyx orna ona indents iconis traced with lines of gold which run ariole the top above the wainscoting the walls of the room are paneled with email small beveled mirrors mirror 8 separated and ant beautified with ban bands do of gilt mol dings upon this scintillating eurlace of glass glass are painted feitli ah exquisite truth to life sprays of in apple P ia blossoms literally laden with N bloom b W in well blended coloring of 0 f cream and gold the tile ceiling is model modeled ed in henry 11 II ornaments for the bath connects with a bedroom arranged arran 9 ed after the style of henry iila time no description cf the painters work can give an adequate idea of the beauty of th the 10 place as each small mirror catches upon up on its beveled face little re fractions of color and light and echoes them back upon tho the eyo eye in immeasurable fantastic chapes shapes until the effect bewilders and enchants near the center of the appart ment bathtub bath bith tub and ind how poor the language must seem to mrs V when it presents no more a aristocratic riat 0 designation for the lovely re ce ceP than tha the plain tub but however the tub is cut out of a block of marble decorated alou along its upper edge with a carved donld ing of scallop hells the water flows I 1 into n to th the a tub through faucets made in the form of swans beads heads with beats beaks of solid silver looking down into the tub with a Buz of anxiety upon her tier features feature as if ahe she has alread already y felt the first chill of the purifying water stands a greek maiden sculptured in a niche in the wall her tunic uplifted modestly as if ehe she were to step down in a moment for a frolic with old croton this figure f 1 g n to la is by b oco one of the Coyse vox b brothers r ahr sculptors t in tho the days of I 1 louis ui XIV the tl Or original lInal of w which daja ic h ia Is in the louvre there the re is not a piece apiece of if portable furniture in the room tho the only resting place being a marble blab slab supported by fabled creatures creature also of tho the pure stone apis Is bat bathroom as it is today to day ia is eaid said to have i cost quite a few gold eagles over i the Thol ideas deas developed I 1 in n this apartment were taken from the f famous bath of marie antoinette and fon taine bleas which has long ion been lai r us the world worl d over 01 er sinae some I 1 ono 1118 efrid so d th that the this bath was the object of more toor eloquence and poetry than all the rent rort of the historic hia antoinette pile from it was taken the bugles tion not only for mrs Vander bilta bilts abath bath but for that of mrs seward webb in her fathers bouse house the mario antoinette bath has been most beautifully re y de described bribed by mary blary gny guy beautiful kroph humphreys Vs she he says it con consists siets of abr three e rooms roon or rather four rooms in three divisions of these one overlooks a garden and the middle one ono connects with bad bed rooms on either side the third is an art alcove in which is tha the bath tho the first two rooms are hung with silk with beveled bands oer over the 1 door I cor the ceiling Is in relief and colored with soft r rich c h tiute tints the tub room is in mar marble ble and the tub which is also marble is set in the wall and tod fod from swam necks with beads heads of e solid olid silver back of the tub ia is a la large rge mirror painted over with dimpled little boys pelting mirrors ing one another w with ith flowers raf mirrors are set also I 1 an fn a the ceiling looking like crystal lakes likes among armong the soft locus louis XIV garlands imagination can scarcely arcely ec go farther further than this ibis reality empress eugenic eugenie attempted to link her came name with this historic a spot t bat but the ruth ruthless leEs hands bands of the fro french rich effaced her monogram a and nd the verses ahe she wrote on a glass panel were removed entire 11 |
