RESTFUL BEAUTY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1938, Page 3

RESTFUL BEAUTY

ANTHONY EDEN’S LONDON HOME. There is always a fascination about other people’s houses, perhaps because they reveal so much of their owners’ personality. Both Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Eden, for instance, have a love of art and a feeling for old furniture. Their taste is reflected in their restful London home, where soft colours are admirably allied to period furniture. The drawing-rom is a study in gold and brown, the dining-room is greten, and so is Mr. Eden’s bedroom, while Mrs. Eden’s room is blue. In the drawing-room gilt candelabra .are set against golden walls, the oak floor, polished toa golden shade, is spread with rugs, there are brown velvet curtains at the windows, and the easy chairs and sofas are upholstered in brown and golden brocades. Panelled walls in the dining-room are painted a pale green, with the mouldings picked out in gold. An oval mahogany table is set about with Hepplewhite chairs that have green seats, while the two armchairs, painted in green, have orange cushions. In Mrs. Eden’s bedroom there is a fourposter bed of mahogany, hung with blue velvet curtains that match the coverlet. The walls are blue, too, and so are the velvet cushions that add comfort to the easy chairs.