Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1928 - Feb 1929)

24 There's No Georgian silver, Sandwich glass and rare examples of American china are kept in this beautiful corner-cupboard. by virtue of dull-green carpeting and the same , shade predominating, in the ! upholstery.. At the windows are ruffled, glazed .curtains, , looped back, outer curtains >"bf chintz and, at the top, green valances. Across the floor are a few hooked rugs, their intricate workmanship ' Still ' intact despite their antiquity. Against, the front wall is a deep divan, upholstered in ' green linen. This, the grand piano, and radio-victrbla' : . are the only modern articles in the room ; and these are carefully placed to be submerged into the mellow atmosphere the other pieces create. , .. On either side of the door stand two . mahogany sidechairs of the fiddle-back design created by Duncan Phyffe, and two or three incidental chairs are Chippendale. For practical comfort: there are high-backed wing chairs, upholstered in bright chintzes. Beside one of them stands a Martha Washington sewing table of mahogany. ' This '!is! '' bv Sheraton, with rows of Place Like Home shallow drawers and barrel ends, the tops of which lift and disclose deep little spaces. Against the wall is a roomy Duncan Phyff e table in curly maple, with the deft insets of mahogany by which his work is recognized. On the other side of the room is a pie-crust table in walnut. This is a small table, deriving its name from the edges of the top, which are meticulously carved in the form of pie crust. In this room is also a Sheraton card table, the top of which is turned flat to the wall when not in use. A Georgian footstool, with heavily carved feet, is upholstered in rich, worn tapestry. In corresponding positions on either wall hang two Georgian mirrors, their massive goldleaf frames dim with age. On the rear wall is a grandmother's clock, severely wrought in natural pine, the patina of which has darkened to honey color, with the smoke of many decades in the same New England kitchen. Other wall decorations are two small silhouettes in walnut frames, a sampler that is a miracle of tedious labor, and two or three etchings. In a far corner of the room is one of the finest pieces, a mahogany Sheraton desk, with intricate, tambour doors and exquisite carving on legs and feet. This piece, by the way, is some day to be given to Henry Ford for his famous Wayside Inn. Mr. Ford, who is a friend of the Hattons, shares their passion and already owns the sewing table and washstand corresponding to the desk. At the end of the living room French doors open onto the veranda, which faces the back garden. While to the right, at the front, an arch leads to a small sitting room. In this room are a couple of prim little incidental chairs by Phyffe. Against the wall is a No New England interior would be complete without a pie-crust table, but few can boast one by Duncan Phyffe. long, low couch — a love seat, to name it correctly — with arched back and, woven upholstery. ■ Above it hangs a landscape, dated 1704, and at one end stands a maple duckfoot table, which sup-, ports a lamp of Sandwich glass. In one corner is a small Phyffe table — a clover-leaf tip-top — its top, which tips up, being wrought in the form of a clover. From this sitting room is reached the dining room. This is done in mahogany, the broad, -shining table with its delicately curved and carved legs by Chippendale, as are the corresponding chairs. In the triangle of a corner stands a high chest with glass doors. On the, shelves are examples of \ the earliest American glass and china. Whole sets of Sandwich glass, accumulated by slow, relentless searchings. A platter of the extinct beehive design. Ruby wine glasses, a Georgian tea service in black silver, hand-hammered pewter, quaint, historical china. Continued on page 117