NEW FURNITURE STYLES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 83, 31 December 1937, Page 13

NEW FURNITURE STYLES

f V Bed-3 with mirrored "heafls" and "foots", vanity tables surfaced with mirror, new furuiture scaled down for small apartments and combination furniture for many-duty service were brought out for the furniture markec at Chicago recently. Moreover the newest evolution in beds which. was demonstrated is the one piece head board for »win beds. This is one of the latest d^velopments Whiqh is growing in popularity and resultiag iu a new .bedroom unit. The two twin beds are fastened to the long head board which extends from the side of one bed to the opposite side Of the other holding the small beds in place but leaving each one a complete unit in itself. The beds have no foots. ' Mirror is being used- more and more on furniture of all kinds. When it covers the outer front or drawers it is made not only for contraetion and es> pansion but the drawers are air and suction proof so they cannot bc slaanmed this running tlie risk of breaking the mirror. Although furniture is estimated to be 5 per cent. higher in price -than it was a year ago it is much less expensive than it was a decade ago and of [much better WQrknj.ang.hip, ac&crdi#g.

one manuf actur er 's1 display at the Aw erican Furniture Mart here. - ; Oue of tlie most popular of the com* bination pieces of furniture was tha long dining room table which could b® broken up into three parts, a drop lea-f table in the centre with two console tables at each end. When company comes or entertaining is done on a larger scale than usual the three afe brought from various parts of the home and fitted togethgr to form one long dining table. A small chest of drawers was shown at the Merchandise Mart which was deep enough to hold the family linen. supply in a small apartment but which! also opened into a table large enough tq scat six comfortably. A new type of furniture hasi been evolved for tho present marketj which combines the Spanish and Mexican, plus the colonial of the furniture brought west in the .days of the forty niners. It is maple with a brushed yuc« ea finish, a colour taken from the yue* ea tree of the south-western desert, the manufacturer explained. Plank tops show the colonial infiuence while .bright floral decovations on drawer - fronts are traced to the Spanish, aa4 from the Indians came the idea of the iaathei & mm* SWSWfr