Courageous in Your Furnishings
Simplicity-in line, in design, in colour-is the keynote of good taste in modern decoration. And beautiful things-things that satisfy-do exist. You must want them enough to delve for them, and to do without them until you discover them. It is the tragedy of most interiors-the lazy habit of compromise. "It’s not right . . . but it will have to do!" But you are forever conscious that here you have failed. there you have only half achieved. In fact, the rooms in which you live and have your being "express" almost anyone in the world but you! And that’s just not good enough. First find your taste. Be definite. Then sweep all the opinions of your friends to the winds and go ahead. If what you've in mind just doesn’t exist anywhere, have it made, Buy one of the excellent worldrecognised decoration journals and copy-in simpler and, perhaps, more inexpensive terms. But, whatever you do-if you’re determined to tackle the job-assert yourself. Our homes are our own-for our pleasure, surely, as well as that of our friends. Personally I respect the woman who insists on following through her own ideas irrespective of criticisms. For me, even her bad taste is more interesting than the uncourageous compromise most of
us make with the conventions.
V.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 13, 22 September 1939, Page 10
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216Courageous in Your Furnishings New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 13, 22 September 1939, Page 10
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