CHAPTER

      I. The development of the modern house
     II.  Suitability, simplicity and proportion
    III.  The old Washington Irving house
     IV.  The little house of many mirrors
      V. The treatment of walls
     VI.  The effective use of color
    VII.  Of doors, and windows, and chintz
   VIII.  The problem of artificial light
     IX.  Halls and staircases
      X. The drawing-room
     XI.  The living-room
    XII.  Sitting-room and boudoir
   XIII.  A light, gay dining-room
    XIV.  The bedroom
     XV.  The dressing-room and the bath
    XVI.  The small apartment
   XVII.  Reproductions of antique furniture and objects of art
  XVIII.  The art of trelliage
    XIX.  Villa Trianon
     XX.  Notes on many things

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

   Elsie de Wolfe (Frontispiece)
   In this hall, simplicity, suitability and proportion are observed
   Mennoyer drawings and old mirrors set in panelings
   A portrait by Nattier inset above a fine old mantel
   The Washington Irving house was delightfully rambling
   A Washington Irving House bedroom
   Miss Marbury’s bedroom
   The fore-court and entrance of the Fifty-fifth Street house
   A painted wall broken into panels by narrow moldings
   A wall paper of Elizabethan design with oak furniture
   The scheme of this room grew from the jars on the mantel
   A Louis Seize bedroom in rose and blue and cream
   The writing corner of a chintz bedroom
   Black chintz used in a dressing-room
   Printed linen curtains over rose colored silk
   Straight hangings of rose and yellow shot silk
   Muslin glass curtains in the Washington Irving house
   Here are many lighting fixtures harmoniously assembled in a
       drawing-room
   Detail of a fine old French fixture of hand wrought metal
   Lighting fixtures inspired by Adam mirrors
   The staircase in the Bayard Thayer house
   The drawing-room should be intimate in spirit
   The fine formality of well-placed paneling
   The living-room in the C.W.  Harkness house at Morristown, New Jersey
   Miss Anne Morgan’s Louis XVI boudoir
   Miss Morgan’s Louis XVI lit de repos
   A Georgian dining-room in the William Iselin house
   Mrs. Ogden Armour’s Chinese paper screen
   Mrs. James Warren Lane’s painted dining-table
   The private dining-room in the Colony Club
   An old painted bed of the Louis XVI period
   Miss Crocker’s Louis XVI bed
   A Colony Club bedroom
   Mauve chintz in a dull green room
   Mrs. Frederick Havemeyer’s Chinoiserie chintz bed
   Mrs. Payne Whitney’s green feather chintz bed
   My own bedroom is built around a Breton bed
   Furniture painted with chintz designs