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...Idea: Black and silver, mirrored, pastel-colored bathrooms. The Motive: To make housewives proud of the bathroom; to make this room as modern as the rest of the apartment, flat, house, etc. The Story: Pierre Dutel, also Kerstin Taube, Manhattan interior decor-tors, are sponsoring mirror-tiled bathrooms, tubs & washstands encased in mirrored glass, swan fixtures.* Reflections from the mirrors to the right, reflections from the mirrors to the left confront the bather. To the U. S. soon will come turquoise blue porcelain tubs, basins, says M. Dutel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashions: Bathrooms | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...doing Mr. Herrick forcibly directed the attention of U. S. citizens to that great movement called L'Art Moderne-for the steamer Ile de France in her interior decor is the work of almost a dozen of the greatest French exponents of this new species of art-an art now available in the U. S. only through one or two of Manhattan's smartest decorators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Peace Passage | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...Majesty, personally wielding a broom and duster according to despatches, assisted with the sweeping, tidying, supervised the packing, indicated that the ornate decorations of the late Duke's bedroom should be torn out and replaced by a simple decor in cream and blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Entrancing Occupation | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

Among the subjects considered in English 15 will be the Inn yard performances and their influence on English dramaturgy, the physical conditions of the early public theatres, the origin and characteristic of the Elizabethan "private" playhouse, the influence of the "decor simultane" on early court staging, the principles of early dramatic collaboration and stage lighting. Mr. Lawrence will then take up its rise and progress from 1590 to 1800, the principles of early prompt-book making, early playgoing customs, the mystery of the Restoration procenian doors, and the characteristics of Elizabethan acting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH SCHOLAR OFFERS COURSES ON EARLY DRAMA | 10/1/1925 | See Source »

Among the subjects considered in English 15 will be the Inn Yard performances and their influence on English dramaturgy, the physical conditions of the early public theatres, the origin and characteristic of the Elizabethan "private" playhouse, the influence of the "decor simultane" on early court staging, the principles of early dramatic collaboration, stage lighting; its rise and progress from 1590 to 1800, the principles of early prompt-book making, early play-going customs, the mystery of the Restoration procenian doors, the characteristics of Elizabethan acting, doubling as a primative principle and its influence of dramaturgy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELTON, LAWRENCE TO GIVE 4 COURSES | 6/12/1925 | See Source »

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