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-106- dry and the floors done and about mid-winter it was ready for occupancy. Next came, of course, the furnishings and fixtures - the making the shell inhabitable, and converting the house into a home. Much of the designing for the interior of Six-twenty-six, Thirteen has been paid of my self-appointed task. I have not only wanted to do these things in order to have something individual but because I had certain definite ideas in mind that I was eager to carry out. The hardware, those iron curtain-rods and door latches ad hinges; and the light fixtures, the ceiling shades, the wall brackets and sconses and a floor lamp were all a part of the general scheme of design. Some of the furniture has also been of my invention. It has also been carved in original designs extracted from my sketch-books which we gathered in our roamings about the world. The motifs- modifications of characteristic sailing boats taken from those upon the sundry seas, adorn the chaise longue and the love-seat; Nautch dancers from India constitute the pattern of the panes of the hook-and-what-not chest; the coffee table is of conventional design; and deck passengers from teh Black Sea Soviet ships decorate the solid marble bedroom suite. These pieces have been beautifully hand wrought by a cabinet maker who not only possesses considerable manual dexterity and skill but alos the qualities reflecting a great pride in his work, and a happy faculty of vision and imagination - perhaps the
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-106- dry and the floors done and about mid-winter it was ready for occupancy. Next came, of course, the furnishings and fixtures - the making the shell inhabitable, and converting the house into a home. Much of the designing for the interior of Six-twenty-six, Thirteen has been paid of my self-appointed task. I have not only wanted to do these things in order to have something individual but because I had certain definite ideas in mind that I was eager to carry out. The hardware, those iron curtain-rods and door latches ad hinges; and the light fixtures, the ceiling shades, the wall brackets and sconses and a floor lamp were all a part of the general scheme of design. Some of the furniture has also been of my invention. It has also been carved in original designs extracted from my sketch-books which we gathered in our roamings about the world. The motifs- modifications of characteristic sailing boats taken from those upon the sundry seas, adorn the chaise longue and the love-seat; Nautch dancers from India constitute the pattern of the panes of the hook-and-what-not chest; the coffee table is of conventional design; and deck passengers from teh Black Sea Soviet ships decorate the solid marble bedroom suite. These pieces have been beautifully hand wrought by a cabinet maker who not only possesses considerable manual dexterity and skill but alos the qualities reflecting a great pride in his work, and a happy faculty of vision and imagination - perhaps the
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