Mr. Thorpe is also making a specialty of designing colour-prints to be used as wall decoration, and, as these are of the utmost value in carrying out such schemes of colour, it is a pleasure to learn that Messrs. Brown-Robertson Co. of New York have been appointed American agents and that these prints are now on sale by them. Mr. Thorpe has kindly enabled the writer to make small reproductions of two prints (Plate 30). He has recently also done some of greater size and elaborateness, which should be of value in houses with more expensive furnishings.

In the cottages mentioned all the furniture (Plates 31 and 32) was designed by Mr. Wells in proportion to the size of the rooms, the principal aims being moderate cost of production consistent with sound workmanship, fitness for purpose, and ease in moving and cleaning. Painted furniture offers the great advantage of choice of colour. The chest of drawers is in grey and brown, the one wardrobe and toilet-table in grey and purple, the writing-table and chair grey and green, while the darker wardrobe is in blue on green, combed. The "waggon" bevelling along the top of the writing-table allows for splashes of colour, and especially to be noted are the swung glasses with an adjusting strut and the hat-cupboard in the chest of drawers.

PLATE 30. COLOUR-PRINTS FOR FRAMING.

DESIGNED BY HALL THORPE. R.B.A., LONDON.

Brown-Robertson Co., New York.

American Agents.

PLATE 31. PAINTED FURNITURE DESIGNED BY PERCY A. WELLS.

Of the L. C. C. Shoreditch Technical Institute. London.

FOR OETZMANN & CO., LTD., LONDON.

Sideboard in Grey and Green.

Wardrobe, Grey and Purple.

Wardrobe, Blue on Green, Combed.

PLATE 32. PAINTED FURNITURE DESIGNED BY PERCY A. WELLS FOR OETZMANN & Co., LTD., LONDON.

Specimen rooms with this furniture have been set up at the Institute of British Art and Industries, Knightsbridge, and at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, showing the effort made to interest the people in good household art.

Mr. Wells has also issued a volume on "Furniture for Small Houses", containing many illustrations and working-drawings and much valuable information upon the subject. Through his courtesy and that of Messrs. Oetzmann and Company, Ltd., who manufacture this furniture and have it on sale, the writer is enabled here to reproduce the pieces shown on Plates 31 and 32.

Mr. Ambrose Heal, of Messrs. Heal and Son, Ltd., London, is a prominent designer of simple furniture. He is contemplating or has by this time begun mass production, thus supplying a very desirable line of admirable pieces for the modest householder. He is also an eminent designer of more elaborate furniture, with entirely individual hand-painted ornament in a small scale. These pieces are very charming and of great refinement.

The work of that eminent designer of furniture the late Ernest Gimson will be referred to later on. Mr. P. Waals, who was closely associated with him from the inception of the business as his head man, is carrying on the shops with the same force of craftsmen at nearby Chalford, and by the additional judicious use of machinery is increasing the product and at a lower price than that required for exclusively hand-worked pieces. By his courtesy the writer is able to show furniture designed and executed by him (Plates 33 and 34). It will be noted that the ideals of this establishment are being carefully continued and the beauty of craftsmanship is readily seen in the two plainer pieces as well as in the more ornamental cabinet.

The work of other able interior architects and designers of furniture will be treated in the second and third sections. Let us now proceed to additional schemes in the actual furnishing of small premises in the most inexpensive manner.

PLATE 33. A CABINET IN EBONY DESIGNED AND MADE BY P. WAALS, CHALFORD, ENGLAND.

PLATE 34. MIRROR, HANGING-CUPBOARD, AND BEDSIDE TABLE IN ENGLISH OAK.

DESIGNED AND MADE BY P. WAALS, CHALFORD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND.