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. MODERN WALL PAPERS
The spirit back of modern wallpapers is the desire to create a simple type of functional background suitable for modem living.
One school of wallpaper manufacturers stresses textured papers without design, which they consider essentially suited to the functionalism of today. Another school uses design on wallpaper background but designs that are very freely drawn, rendered in clear flat colors, and used to highlight impor­ tant spots in the room.
Still another school has based its wallpaper designs on traditional Eight­ eenth Century models, simplifying them and adapting them until they are trans­ lated into modem subjects. These are perhaps the most successful of today's papers for modem rooms.
The use of these wallpapers is quite as important as their design. l\. com­ bination of two different papers is often made. One wall may be figurE' 1 while the other has merely a textured paper on it; the same design in two ·9nt colorings is sometimes used in one room. There are also modern roo' a dado of one paper and partially or completely covered with anot:- :11
these arrangements great simplicity is the keynote.
NANCY McCE.
During the American Institute of Decorators Convention held in San Francisco in 1 9 ·:11 be a special exhibit of modem wallpapers held in the Decorative Arts Division. , .e exhibitors will be: Nancy McClelland, Lorraine Yerkes, Mrs. Kenneth Torrance, Katzc,- :d Warren, Margaret Owen, Teresa Kilham, John Little, Richard Ferg, William Yeo and ,
MODERN Ru-.J.S 700 Ruby Adair, United States (San Fran­ *705 Marion Dorn, England (London). "Shell
cisco). Hand-hooked rug.
701 Joseph Blumfield, United States (Los An­ geles, California). Three bas-relief rugs. Lent by Century Fabrics, Inc. Rug in Italian Gallery lent by Joseph Blumfield.
702 HjordisBrolin,Sweden(Strornbacka).Tap­ estry rug. Lent by Mrs. Sam Green, San Francisco.
703 Paul Bry, United States (New York). Fur carpet. Exhibited in the Paul Bry Unit.
704 Ben Cunningham, United States (San Francisco). Rug. Executed and lent by Enid Schmidt, San Francisco.
Rug." Aubusson rug.
706 Estrid Erikson, Sweden (Stockholm). Two small rugs. Flossa rug. Rya rug. Lent by Svenskt Tenn, Stockholm. Exhibited in the Svenkst Tenn Unit.
707 Carsten Foge, United States (San Fran­ cisco). Bas-relief rug. Lent by John Brauner Company, San Francisco. Exhibited in the Kern Weber Room.
708 MathewH.Jellett,UnitedStales(SanFran­ cisco). Permanen-Tuft rug.
709 Valborg Gravender, United States (San Francisco). Rya rug. Lent by the Swedish Applied Arts, San Francisco.
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