http://1920-30.com/blog Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:37:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en THE FORD-GENERAL MOTORS rivalry has gone abroad. It has even ascended into the clouds. Let General Motors announce that its new automobile plant near Antwerp, Belgium, is nearly completed; Ford buys a site at Edgewater, N. J., at which to assemble Ford parts and load ships for the export trade, ... http://1920-30.com/blog/air-rivalry/ 1928's STYLE IN YOUNG GIRLS Gone is the flapper. In her place has come the young woman with poise, of soft-toned and correct speech, soberly dressed, and without closely cropped hair. Such, at all events, are the specifications of Miss 1928 as portrayed in the current number, of the "Junior League ... http://1920-30.com/blog/end-of-the-flapper-era/ Scientific thinking on Atomic Energy in 1929 A fond dream of scientists - the hope of some day obtaining energy in tremendous quantities by releasing forces known to exist within the atoms of matter - was given a Christian burial on the recent occasion of the award to the scientists Michelson ... http://1920-30.com/blog/atomic-energy/ To Add Cheer and Color WHERE the dining room happens to be gloomy, with insufficient light and an uninviting outlook, much can be done to add cheer and color by the use of painted furniture and brilliant draperies against light tinted walls. One effective method of furnishing such a room would ... http://1920-30.com/blog/adding-cheer-and-color-to-a-dining-room-part4/ A Console Is Decorative THE dining room should not serve, as it so often does, as a show room for cut glass, china, curios and souvenirs. This is one of the reasons why the console or the pair of consoles, when space permits, and a quaint old lowboy to hold the ... http://1920-30.com/blog/dining-room-console-part-3/ Appropriate Dining Room Chairs THE dining room chairs at the left and in the middle of the group shown on this page are appropriate and beautiful designs to be used with any type of gate-leg table or the plainer makes of refectory tables now in vogue for the combination dining and ... http://1920-30.com/blog/choosing-dining-room-chairs-part-2/ SINCE the small house and apartment have become the rule instead of the exception, many of the dining rooms in our modern country or suburban homes and in our larger cities are of such limited proportions that the task of finding suitable furnishings has become a difficult problem. The old ... http://1920-30.com/blog/selecting-dining-room-furniture-part-1/ FURNISHINGS, whether furniture - or rugs or hangings, are made and offered for sale, in excellent designs, patterns and colors, which will adapt themselves to any standard of decoration, simple or elaborate. Take into consideration, first, how much money it is expedient to use, and decide to purchase only the ... http://1920-30.com/blog/how-to-buy-furniture/ ALL the modern furniture in the living room pictured has been chosen because of its distinct Duncan Phyfe characteristics, or else for its suitability for blending harmoniously with the modem renditions of this style. The sofa has real distinction, a swing and flare of line ennobled by its delicately carved ... http://1920-30.com/blog/duncan-phyfe-furnishings-part-3/ WHILE Duncan Phyfe did a great deal of completely original work, he was influenced very strongly by Hepplewhite and Sheraton, though more especially the latter. Many of Phyfe's pieces show the same straight, narrow, high-shouldered effect that proved one of the charms of the Sheraton style. In his original work ... http://1920-30.com/blog/earmarks-of-the-duncan-phyfe-style-part-2/