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...problem for Author-Editor (Doubleday) Margaret Cousins was how to set up a four-room apartment on East 63rd Street in such a way that she could live with her multitude of books and some favorite furnishings saved from the big Westchester home that she sold. Decorator William Pahlmann (see below) built storage walls wherever he could find the space, gave the study-guest-room the famous Pahlmann tent treatment: the walls are covered with striped mustard-and-red cotton, which winds around to the window wall and folds into drapery, while the ceiling is covered with a light blue...
Paradise of Color. Decorator Pahlmann describes his own place as a "paradise of color." Currently under sublease to J. Davis Danforth, a vice president of Curtis Publishing Co.. Pahlmann's nine-room apartment on Park Avenue is filled with items and ideas that could furnish a museum twice its size. He designed his own V'Soske area rug, has mixed Louis XV and XVI, 17th century English, :8th century Genoese and Venetian, Chinese tea paper, Portuguese rag rug. In Pahlmann's favorite manner, one small bedroom is tented with cotton in blue, red and gold stripes...
...then overlaid with a white rococo design. Most interesting feature: a white brick fireplace with a conical hood under which sits a copper brazier that can be used to cook an informal roast or light a formal dinner. ¶ A warm and woolly Explorer's Study by William Pahlmann, which combines the comforts of a modern Manhattan flat with the old wood stove of a backwoods cabin. Among the features: a wall paneled in sturdy oak, a sleek, yellow lacquer desk...
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