Interiors

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 233, 21 December 1927, Page 7

Interiors

WALL TREATMENT A New Type of Decoration OECORATED ceilings and imaginative wall treatments U we have had in plenty, but it has been left to the ultramodern decorators to combine the two.

There is nothing particularly novel about a wall treatment consisting of tall tree-stems springing from a skirting that stimulates a mossy hillock and terminating in leafy foliage. But the same walls acquire a distinctly original touch when the tree-tops meet in the blue-grounded ceiling, mingling their branches about the gilt sunray, from the centre of which hangs a great golden globe like a pendant sun. Such a method is typical of the new trend of decorative ideas, which hold that it is all wrong to make ceilings and walls of different genres. They must merge to be successful.

A flight of painted swallows across the ceiling now has its logical conclusion in a half-dozen of the birds stuck at irregular intervals upon the parch-

ment wallpaper. These birds must, of course, be somewhat larger than those depicted overhead since they are seen at closer quarters.

The frieze border that simulates a rose-trellis with the flowers climbing through the interstices can now be matched up with the ceiling paper to continue the trellis idea. The contrast between the plain walls and the decorated ceiling and frieze is intriguing and attractive. Ivy trails can be similarly exploited no very ornamental ends.

Plain papers also are used to cover both walls and ceiling, pastel shades being chosen as a rule for this style of treatment. But do not attempt the mode in a small boxlike room.