Two such groups divide
the room into three smaller rooms, as you can see by the illustration.
Small tables and chairs are pulled up to the sofas, making conversation
centers, or comfortable places for reading.
The trellis work covers the spaces between windows and doors, and
follows the contour of the arches. The ceiling is bordered with the
trellis, and from a great square of it in the center a lamp is
suspended. The wall panels are broken by appliques that suggest the
bounty of summer, flowers and leaves and vines in wrought and painted
iron. There are pedestals surmounted by marbles against some of the
panels, and a carved bracket supporting a magnificent bust high on one
of the wider panels. The room is classic in its fine balance and its
architectural formality, and modern in its luxurious comfort and its
refreshing color. Surely there could be no pleasanter room for whiling
away a summer day.
XIX
VILLA TRIANON
The story of the Villa Trianon is a fairy-tale come true. It came true
because we believed in it--many fairy stories are ready and waiting to
come true if only people will believe in them long enough.
For many years Elizabeth Marbury and I had spent our summers in that
charming French town, Versailles, before we had any hope of realizing a
home of our own there.
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