Furniture for Babes

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 8, 7 September 1928, Page 14

Furniture for Babes

ae see MPH present age tus been culled, with reason, the golden age of the nursery folk, for everyone’ is anxious to make them comfortable and happy. ‘Their very lessons are mude amusing, and their environment is planned with the iden of training them to form artistic ideals, and to cultivate good taste. In a well-known Kkinglish furniture store are being shown min.ature reproduction Tudor armchairs for the nursery chsirs that would not look out of place in mother’s dr:wing room or dining room should there not be sufficient house space to give the young p rson a room all to himself. There is a small) Tmdor oak chest, too, which would look at home in any drawing room. It is "eally a toy-hox to hold those toys whieh would otherwise he inevitably hidaen away by Miss or Master Two-to-Kight-years-old under chair or ches,erfield. or in the sideboard eupboard of a nurseryless home. The modern furniture designe. is’ by way of being a clear-siv ited edueationist. fo. he realises that Miss or Master Two-to-RPight-vears-old needs smnusing as well as instructing in the sanons of good taste. So we see amnsing wooden chairs which ean be used in the house or in fhe garden. The sides are carved and painted inte two realistic-looking baby alephants, which hold ap tetween them the tedge of wood which forms ‘he seat. Even more. fascinating te the small verson is the bear painted in natural ‘olouringe which serve not only as a ehair but as a toy bow as well. In these days of restricted house space perhaps it is 2s well to train 2 child's mind early to the shifts. sabterfuges and ecamouflages necessary to rhe hed-sitting room idea in order that he may he able to nian his own perfect hed-sitting room when he grows up. So for the room whieh must do duty as both day and night nursery-the nursery bed-sitting room in fact-one furniture maker is showing miniature oak dressing tables with drawers at each side and recesses at the top for brushes. comhs. and other toilet necessuries with a mirror at the back. which ean he shnt down like the lid of a box over these recesses to form a. writing table when. shut.

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