A COLLECTION OF MODERN GLASS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 441, 24 August 1928, Page 5

A COLLECTION OF MODERN GLASS

SOME NOVEL IDEAS FOR ITS DISPLAY Modern glass is so alluring that many women are tempted to buy It in greater quantities than are really necessary and sometimes they are puzzled to find safe storing places lor it. The best way out of the difficulty is to make a virtue of necessity and treat some of the pieces as if they were of the purely decorative order. The lounge hall is not a place in ■which it would naturally occur to a housewife to show off her stock of glass. But try the effect of a Chippendale cupboard (it may only be a reproduction piece, and yet look remarkably effective), with glass fronts paned with diamond leads. Arrange the sundea and lemonade glasses on the shelves, punctuating the white ware with the coloured, and making sure that the whole is seen to advantage through the sides of the cupboard as well as through the front. Paint the inside of the cupboard pale lemon yellow or soft apple green and you will make it all look very charming and interesting. A collection of glass salad and junket bowls lends itself to arrangement on shelves erected in some recess in the dining room, and here again bright paint for the shelves and t.heir immediate background will prove attractive. If the glass is in the fashionable puce shade, choose the paint in laveuder mauve; ie the glass is amber, have the paint in buttercup colour. Certain china shops sell pyramids of dark wood, on the various steps oi which it is intended to show off bits of old Dresden and Chelsea. Such pyramids, arranged on a tall cabinet or cupboard, look well filled witli tumblers and wineglasses, vases and candlesticks, artistically grouped together.