EFFECT MATTERS
take over the responsibility of "interior decorating" our homes. It isn’t the house that matters really. What matters is that we give ourselves away-we reveal our taste, or the lack of it, to hundreds of persons perhaps who have the discrimination to know better. And that’s bad. Far better to find an expert who knows the job. And even they are few and far between. There’s a Melbourne firm of architects who run their own staff of experts for the design of interiors, furniture, fabrics, etc. That’s a wise arrangement-if the client is wise enough to hand over the job. Many of us, on the other hand, have a real flair for what is "right." In colour and line and arrangement we can fling a glance over a store’s entire stock and place our hand unhesitatingly on the "inevitable" thing. If we have definite ideas, mental pictures, of what should be. we should never relax until we get our "effect." Furnishing departments may not have the fabric we want. Well, why not try the dress department? It acts both ways. One of the most charming evening gowns I’ve seen was made from a muslin curtain. Alsa, my favourite in draw-ing-rooms belong to a certain titled woman in Chelsea who searched London and ended up with mattress ticking for her curtains! It’s mainly a matter of shedding conventional ideas. In decoration, effect matters. How you get it matters nothing at all. of us should hesitate before we
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 8, 18 August 1939, Page 11
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