limits restrict us. To those who would wish for a more satisfactory account of what is most remarkable in this truly elegant and princely residence, we beg leave to recommend the description given of it in the first volume of the Microcosm of London.
The view which accompanies this brief account of the residence of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, is taken from the north side of Pall-Mall, westward of Carlton-House, and represents the steeple of St. Martin’s church in the background.
FASHIONABLE FURNITURE.
PLATE 26.DEJEUNER, OR WORK-TABLE.
This elegant model for a table, designed and decorated after the Grecian style, is adapted for apartments of taste and superior elegance in their finishing. It should, in consequence, be executed in imitation of bronzed metal, the ornaments in burnished and matt-gold. A net-work, in gold-coloured silk, incloses the lower part, forming a bag for ladies’ work and trinkets. The top of this table should be of some of the rarest and most beautiful species of marbles. The drawing-room, or boudoir, claims this elegant article of modern decoration, and which may with propriety be occasionally placed in the piers between the windows.
FOOTSTOOL.
Under the above table we have placed a footstool, similar in its finishing and decoration. The covering should be of mazarine-blue velvet, with gold fringe on the fronts.
DRAWING-ROOM TABOURET.
This article is designed in corresponding taste, and adapted to the work-table, having its frame as bronze, with the ornaments in or-moulu; the covering being of mazarine-blue velvet, with gold trimming and ornaments.
DRAWING-ROOM CHAIR.
This chair should be similar in finishing to the preceding articles, viz. the ground-work of the frame in bronze, with the ornaments in gold or or-moulu; the covering of the seat and back in blue velvet, to suit the tabouret and footstool, trimmed with gold, and having a gold tassel attached to the scroll at the back.
ALLEGORICAL WOOD-CUT, WITH PATTERNS OF BRITISH MANUFACTURE.
The large pattern No. 1 and 2 is a new cotton for furniture called the Oriental Pink. The novelty of this article does not consist in the design, but in the pink dye, which it has been the aim of the manufacturer to render fixed and permanent, so that it may be washed without being liable to fade. The endeavours of both foreign and native chemists and manufacturers to accomplish this desirable object, with respect to reds and pinks in particular, are well known. We are happy to observe, that in this instance Mr. Allen has completely succeeded; the greatest variety of designs of this pink are now on sale at his extensive private ware-rooms, 61, Pall-Mall.
No. 3 is a lilac spotted gossamer, very fashionable for full dresses, and furnished by Messrs. Coopers, silk-mercers to his Majesty, 28, Pall-Mall.
No. 4 is white and green coral-figured silk, much worn for mantles and pelisses. Though we in general protest against green for ladies’ wear, yet when sparingly displayed on a white ground, like this pattern, it produces a shade that will suit many complexions. But our ideas on this subject have already been developed in the general observations on Ladies’ Fashions, to which we beg leave to refer our fair readers.
