A FUTURIST FLAT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2132, 25 April 1914, Page 11

A FUTURIST FLAT

THE CUBISTS AT THEIR BEST. "Futurism" is nothing if not startling, and its latest excursion into the realms of architecture and liouse-decor-ation quite come up to the previous exploits •of its exponents in this respect. In London, so tho "Standard" says, there is now being fitted out a Futurist flat, the first of its kind in England. The ownor of this unique homo is Miss Letchmere, a member of the rap-idly-growing London , group of adherents of-the movement; The furnishing will, of coUrse, be different from anything else ever conceivod by the mind of man. Delicate art-shades are'banished; from the -colour-scheme,'- wliich. will have a basis of violent reds, blues and yellows. Crimson couches and chairs, for instance, will' stand. an a blue carpet,\ while a brilliant .yellow table will blaze against . tho flamiiig walls. Visitors will' be ablo to .recliho on a crimson couch ; among crimson' and ultramarine cushions adorned with Cubist patterns, while they gazo at some of the'masterpieces of Cubist art Which adorn; the'-walls. But the :• crowning glory of the flat is to be a •Futurist roof-garden on the • leads outside tho drawing-room window. Tho garden area is a square enclosed on its outer sides by a low wall, 011 top of which.is a plain iron railing. From the wall at one of the outer corners of tho square. rises a chimney-pot, topped with an earthenware cowl. This chim-noy-pot is to provide the central scheme for the garden. The cowl already resembles vaguely a grotesque face, and ,tlie designer of the garden has conceived the idea of transforming tho chim-ney-pot into a grinning idol, a sort of up-to-date Priapus, or god of gardens. The brick-stack will be painted into the semblance of a body, and the red railing radiating on two. sides from the base will serve as the idol's legs. -The enclosing wall is to be painted a dazzling white,. ,and the flowers on the leads will form masses of pure colour, amazing reds arid terrific blues. Round about will.be ranged quaint Japanese dwarf trees and weird Japanese plants. Surely no one but a confirmed Futurist could endure existence in such a dwelling as the "Standard" describes 1 1