1954 October HOUSE & GARDEN MAGAZINE.
238 pages. Very good or better condition.
OCTOBER, 1954
Decorating
PAGE
How to be your own decorator..
Good decorating begins with a plan.
Conversation group in-the-round.
Large seating pieces act as room dividers.
Gain space by placing furniture against the walls..126-127
Group your furniture around a music wall.
A screen gives one room a two-room feeling.
Use area rugs to define different activities.
Plan your room to make the most of a view.
Make a focal point
Create a listening group around a music cabinet..130-131
A window-wall influences your room plan
Lighting and paintings reflect owners' taste.
Let your way of life influence your decoration.
Furniture is grouped for view of paintings..
Three rooms combined into one large living room .136-137
Platform serves as a bed and seating piece.
Books and music influence decoration
Placing of piano creates setting for music
Country Continental: new furniture group
Primer on wallpaper...
You can actually remodel with wallpaper.
Textured wallpapers give variety to any room.
Wallpapers can create an illusion of space..
Wallpapers paired with matching fabrics.
Set off an area within a room by using wallpaper..
Link two rooms with kindred papers
One touch of paper adds interest to a room
a long, low shelf.
Building
Today's transitional houses..
Modern version of romantic Colonial design.
Modern version of a traditional Oregon farmhouse.
What to look for in your heating system...
The strength of steel, the warmth of wood in your kitchen..182
Keeping your windows in good repair.
Get the most from your heating system.
Make an asset of your garage
Mechanics of living
29
112
120-121
200
Entertaining
New silver centerpieces are smaller in scale.
Table setting for your first fall party.
The Compleat Fish Cook Book by James A. Beard.
Make your drinks looks as good as they taste.
20-21
.170
171-173
.192
Young idcas for young families
162-163
How to be your own paper hanger
Gardening
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Don't blame the weather if your garden doesn't grow....164-167
Spring tonic for your garden.
Gardener's gear...
How to plant new roses successfully in the fall.
The new pink peonies by Silvia Saunders.
Bulbs for spring color.
Travel
The Isle of Rhodes by Richmond B. Williams.
118
On the cover:
Panels of latticed wallpaper spaced apart suggest columns,
add height and airiness to a small room. The paper: United
Wallpaper's new design, "Lattice." For shopping informa-
tion turn to page 222. Photograph by Haanel Cassidy.
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CONTRIBUTORS
James A. Beard
(who wrote
The
Compleat
Cook Book, pp.
Fish
171-173)
tests
recipes in a kitch-
en "no larger than
a test tube." Born
in Portland, Ore-
gon, he has studied voice at the Royal
Academy in London, toured with Walter
Hampden, acted in silent movies, become
an expert cook and taught cooking without
taking a lesson himself. Among his many
books, some the result of wide travel, are
Cook Outdoors, Fireside Cookery Book,
Fowl and Game Cookery, and Paris Cui-
sine (with Alexander Watt).
Philip C. John-
son, architect,
lives in a
no w -
famous glass house
in New Canaan,
Connecticut. Since
he first won fame
with his installa-
tion of the Ma-
chine Art show at New York's Museum of
Modern Art in 1933, his designs have in-
cluded a Manhattan house for Mrs. John D.
Rockefeller III, a sculpture garden, annex
and restaurant for the Museum of Modern
Art. His ability to clear a room of every-
thing but comfort and his extraordinary
use of light can be seen on pages 132-133.
Jean and William Eckart (the theatre's
only hushand and wif
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rt (the theatre's
only husband and wife designing team)
turn their talents to a room with four walls
on pages 126-127. They began designing for
TV, did sets for Oh Men! 0h Women! and
The Golden Apple for which they won the
Donaldson award.
Their ambition: to
"take the ceiling
off sets and let
parts of things
stand as symbols
for the whole."
Latest project: the
sets for Eastman
Kodak's new TV
color film series,
Norby, which will
star David Wayne.