a lawyer with large interests surrounds himself with necessities
which contribute to his comfort, sense of beauty and art
instincts.

The desk is big, solid and commodious, yet artistically unusual.

[Illustration: _A Man's Office in Wall Street_]


Recently the fair butterfly daughters of a mother whose taste has
grown sophisticated, complained--"But, Mother, we dislike
_periods_, and here you are building a Tudor house!" forgetting, by
the way, that the so-called Bakst interiors, adored by them, are
equally a _period_.

This home, a very wonderful one, is being worked out on the plan
suggested, that is, the first floor is decorated in the period of the
exterior of the house, while the personal rooms on the upper floors
reflect, to a certain extent, the personality of their occupants.
Remember there must always be a certain relationship between all the
rooms in one suite, the relationship indicated by lines and a
background of the same, or a harmonising colour-scheme.




CHAPTER II

HOW TO CREATE A ROOM