The lower wall space between the columns is
covered with a simple green lattice, and the upper part is filled with
little mirrors framed in narrow green moldings, arranged in a
conventional design which follows the line of the trellis. One end of
the room is made up of two narrow panels of the trellis with a fireplace
between. On the opposite wall the middle panel is a background for a
delightful wall fountain. The fretwork of mirrors which takes the place
of frieze in the room is continued all around the four walls. One of the
walls is filled entirely with French doors of plate glass, beneath the
mirrored frieze; the other long wall has the broad, central panel cut
into two doors of plate glass, and stone benches placed against the two
trellised panels flanking the doors. The ceiling is divided into three
great panels of trellis, and from each of the three panels a lantern is
suspended.
In the Guinness house in New York there is a little hallway wainscoted
in white with a green trellis covering the wall space above. Against
this simple trellis--it is really a lattice--a number of plaster casts
are hung. In one corner an old marble bowl holds a grapevine, which has
been trained over the walls. The floor is of white tiles, with a narrow
Greek border of black and white. This decoration of a little hall might
be copied very easily.
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