LONDON WONDER FLAT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 983, 28 May 1930, Page 6

LONDON WONDER FLAT

WALLS OF LOOKING GLASS LUXURY FOR A MARQUESS A new wonder flat has just been completed in Portland Place, London, for the Marquis and Marquise de Casa Maury. Only a few years ago the marquess, an enormously rich and clever young man, who with his wife, formerly Miss Paula Gellibrand, formed one of the most popular young couples in society, furnished an ultra modern flat in Grosvenor Street. Now the marquess says he is dissatisfied with the “operating theatre” style of modern furniture. “In my new flat I intend to be comfortable, and have simplicity, but nothing reminiscent of the dentist’s parlour,” the marquess tells his friends.

All the passages of this flat—high above London’s roof tops—are painted pure white. Panels of plain mahogany make the doors, which have no handles, but bars of chromium plate, and all the door fittings and certain rails—even the letter box —are in this material.

The dining room is one of the most dazzling rooms in London. It lias plain white walls, curtains of black and silver sequins and jade green velvet covered chairs. The tables are made completely of glass, and decorated with green • glass fruit and silver glass grotesque animals. The bar and cupboard In the cocktail room can be disguised as a bookcase, and special chairs have been made in leather on silver chromium tubes. Ordinary three-ply wood panels have been utilised for the bedroom walls of the marquess. This room has also tables of black looking glass, besides a bed covered with sapphire blue velvet. In the bedroom of the marquise is a complete wall of looking glass. Here, too, are jade green silk hangings, a coverlet of grey squirrel skins, and a Louis XVI. dressing-table and settee worth well over £2,000.

The only lighting in the very modern drawing room, which also has a complete wall of looking glass, comes from China lamps placed on the floor. This room is in three shades of blue, and for each blue-covered chair there is a glass table equipped with cigar-ette-box and matches.