TINGEY'S, LTD.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 72, 19 December 1918, Page 3

TINGEY'S, LTD.

GO-AHEVD FIRM WITH MODERN IDEAS. ' Tingey's, Ltd., oil and colour merchants, house decorators, art dealers, etc., is a firm which does not believe in standing still. It makes obeisance to the god of progress, and is alive to the quickening effects of fickle fashion. A glance at the beautiful corridor show windows in the firm's Manners Street pemises yitvs the keynote to tho whole business. Here aro to be seen a fine display of beautiful pictures, many from the brush of well-known artists, exquisitely framed, and forming the best and most lasting, presents for one's friends at this joyous season of the year. As house decorators Tingey's have an enviable reputation. Those about to redecorate should not fail to pay a risit to the spacious studio above the shop, where there are-ingenious methods of displaying the very latest English and American papers ia every possible combination, floor and ceiling friezes, double friezes, panelled papers, in artistic profusion. Gone are the days of the/cheap, flimsy papers. No one neks for them now. The public have realised that tho acarest mtpers are the cheapest in the long run. Tingey's are the solo agents for the eichisiro wall papers of Shand Kydd, whoso ■ rare designs in chintzes and shadowed designs aro regarded as the English best. The firm has an elaborate plant for glass embossing and painting, and turns out work that commnnds Admiration and arrests the attention. It also has a l ng manufactory where varnishes, notting, "Lino-arnisli," wood-stains, and hat dyes are made. Its turnover in this department alone exceeds i'GOOO a year. Tingcys hat-dyes are popular all over New Zealand— tlie/ daily sales exceed six gross. The glass department is one that opens up a commercial romance. Glass was formerly comparatively cheap—to-duy "ood plate is being sold at £1 per square toot, and Tiugcy's have panes measuring 12ft. Bin. by 10ft. 6in. The new corridor show windows in the shop cost about £1(100, so that one is looking through money when examining the artistic display within. When rearranging homes for the New Year, it would pay to consult Tiugey's, because they know.—(Published by Arrangement.)