[Illustration: MRS. ORMOND G. SMITH'S TRELLIS ROOM AT CENTER ISLAND, NEW
YORK]
Our outdoor trellis is at the end of the Villa Trianon garden, in line
with the terrace where we take our meals. This trellis was rebuilt many
times before it satisfied me, but now it is my greatest joy. The niches
are planned to hold two old statues and several prim box trees. I used
very much the same constructive design on one of the walls of the Colony
Club trellis room, but there a fountain has the place of honor.
Formal pedestals surmounted by gracefully curved urns, box trees,
statues, marble benches, fountains--all these belong to the formal
outdoor trellis.
The trellis is primarily suitable for garden architecture, but it may be
fitted to interior uses most skilfully. Pictures of the trellis room in
the Colony Club have been shown so often it is not necessary to repeat
more than one of them. The room is long and high, with a floor of large
red tiles. The walls and ceiling are covered with rough gray plaster, on
which the green strips of wood are laid. The wall space is entirely
covered with the trellis design broken into ovals which hold
lighting-fixtures--grapes and leaves in cloudy glass and green enamel.
The long room leads up to the ivy-covered trellis of the fountain wall,
a perfect background for the fountain, a bowl on the brim of which is
poised a youthful figure, upheld by two dolphins.
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