LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Elsie de Wolfe]

[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]

[Miss Morgan's Louis XVI dressing-room]

[Miss Marbury's chintz-hung dressing-table]

[A corner of my own boudoir]

[Built-in bookshelves in a small room]

[Mrs. C.W. Harkness's cabinet for objets d'art]

[A banquette of the Louis XV period covered with needlework]

[A Chinese Chippendale sofa covered with chintz]

[The trellis room in the Colony Club]

[Mrs. Ormond G. Smith's trellis room at Center Island, New York]

[Looking over the tapis vert to the trellis]

[A fine old console in the Villa Trianon]

[The broad terrace connects house and garden]

[A proper writing-table in the drawing-room]

[A cream-colored porcelain stove in a New York house]

[Mr. James Deering's wall fountain]

[Fountain in the trellis room of Mrs. Ormond G. Smith]


Elsie de Wolfe


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