THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1058.
PRACTICAL
NEW LOOK IN
IN FURNITURE
"A room with n view" has h new menning In modern homes. The tele- vision set is now the focal point in many living-rooms, in which the furniture is bought and placed to give the beat entertainment value.
When furniture WAB grouped round the fireplace in winter and turned to face the window in summer the three-piece suite with its two over-stuffed armchaira and the three cushion sofa (so uncomfortable for the person in the middle!) way one of the most important items in any furnishing budget. This has now been rivalled by the fashion for having one really largo divan settee, which may almost stretch the whole length of one wall, plus a few small occasional chairs us Individual unite. These, be incidentally, can also combined to make another important plece of furniture,
By PATRICIA DOUGLAS
The convertible
cushions.
Curved Backs
The
HOMECRAFT
PUSH A
BUTTON
THE MIRACLE KITCHEN at work (left to right): a self-propelled serving cart amarges from a basa coblast and delivers table service from a dishwething mechanis in the well to the dining tabla, impla foods are stored on pantry theives which drop down tɔ on accessible level of the wave of a hand. The refrigerator also may be wared down from a wall coblest, A mobile floor cleaner scrubs the kitchen floor, eaturus to its wall recess, and is cutomatically recharged for the next clauslag
job. These remote-control opETS- Flans
directed from the
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terlanding planning centra hoort and fraim of the kitchen,
WAVE YOUR HAND-AND YOU BAKE A CAKE
NEW YORK.
No
Ordinary TV, in all colours facing you wherever
A REMINDER
A volee (your own) softly croons: "The bridge cluth will arrive at noon for lunch." You recorded this reminder yester
time ECL re- day and your
an or-
In a large room or in a parts of the room when a clever neutral background AND SONS OF LEEDS in combined living-room and change in the layout is for brightly coloured scatter their Contessa range.
upholstery material is 100' MOODS that cook in and sizes, is dashed on to wall percent pure lambswool seconds on completely panels faca un American to dining-room home designers wanted.
All the upholstery of have introduced the idea of
with a soft and shaggy sur cold surfaces, cupboards be out of sight of a TV screen. the curved settee. This may these units is in hard wear-
face. Two shades of slate be used to divide the room ng woollen materials, usuni-
two contrasting Few of the modern chairs blue, light and dark, are re-that open with an airy wave into its two separate parts, ly in
of the hand, floor cleaners have staffed arms. The versed on two chairs and a
and china trolleys that but in a more friendly and colours.
Rcurry about intelligently suttee trend in their design is small nettee. homely way than by a rigid
The material has the on their own... poiter piece of furniture such as a (either of 4-ft. double bed rather for a curved back. sideboard or unit bookcase width or 2 ft. 9 in-single padded to support the lower luxury look at a lambswool geists, you say?
of the spine and rug--it makes the perfect just one more beautiful minding recorder is now giving bed size) is a most practical part Sectional Furniture
and at the same time at caressingly shaped to shield chair for a pretty bedroom | tribute of America's seient- you, if you were just
-though one might be ists to America's home- dinury housewife instead of an tractive piece of modern the sitter from draughts. Such a settee is made by furniture (by HILLE). Un. The mahogany arms and afraid that its long-haired makers, as they call their outer space homemaker, a nasty CINTIQUE who find that like the more usual divan it legs become part of the texture would pick up dirt, wives and mothers here jolt. No need to worry, how-
design, rather than merely hint of its sectional furniture is fur gives
pastel shades. The makers, more constructive than our more useful in the average secondary use as a comfort additional "pegs" on which especially when made in the (sounds less enslaved
the chair rests.
Now, if you can wrench your however, give the assurance word housewife). Yet it is home than any plece of able extra bed.
For these, Yorkshire that the material is easily Aware that I could only lead self from that contour choir determined size. The curved very almply adjusted by a corner section takes up only sliding action which brings tweeds in rich purples and cleaned by rubbing it over to disharmony between me and and walk over to one of thore four square feet of four the soft back down to make peacock blues are used as with a damp cloth rung out my little old gas cooker, I took pleasant-leviting panels and
of the are handwoven tweeds and
in detergent foam. space and is a cosy conver- the second half
wool boucle cloths in neutrul sational affair. To cach mattress, A hard-wearing
tones with an occasional sido of this, one or more handwoven Irish woollen
contrast. Wool single sections can be added, material is used for the brilliant These cap also be used an upholstery. In a black and moquette, both cut and un- individual chairs in other white mixture it makes a cut (plain and patterned), is still the top favourite hard wearing fabric.
11)
101 colours
to choose from
says Lucky, the Lister Lamb
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Extravagant? No, the Lavenda woolly you knit yourself costs no more than an ordinary shop-bought jumper. And just look at the difference Lavenda washes and wears so willingly, too.
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Look to disters
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ever, until about five minutes and before the bridge club actually
arrives.
a plunge Into kitchen outer
sce and went to
the space Whirlpool Miracle Kitchen, "the laboratory of ldtchen ideas for the future."
A CURBER
D
The "Future" na is just eurber on enthusiasın becauso though all the miracles are working beautifully, they
not yet in production
The first thing about
the
The cost of upholstering today is very high. Skilled workers are at a premium and even the smallest repair work costs about twice as much as one would expect. Modern upholstery is So it is sensible and practi- often carried out in two cal for furnishing materials colours and a popular idea to be of the very best in home furnishing is to quality. Second best may be miracle kitchen which is being Introduce two contrasting cheaper originally but usual exhibited on tour is that you far more can't see a thing in it to remind colours in reverse ways in ly works out
you of a kitchen. In the middle different items. A settee expensive in the end.
19 22 perky looking object, might have a black seat and
The manufacturers of straight from the cockpit of black on the sitter's side
space ship. This is your plan- good furniture
fully are
trom which you while the outside-in the
ning centre
day, Rows same fabric-is in a brilliant aware of this and when need never stir all
selecting upholstery of levers and buttons give you contrast. The chairs in the same room will show a materials for their newest the efficiency patentini of a colonel in the Catering Corps, reverse of the colour scheme. designs almost invariably head of a TV department and a
choose from among these graduate of M.1.5. new woollens. They have Before you is a small Teis been proved to give nt. least vision through which you can This two-coloured iden is as long and hard wear as
survey the goings-on in the rest of the house, as well as giving a attractively most
carried the springs and stuffing, of
preview of who is at the front out in a suite by S. MORRIS the furniture.
or bucic doors.
Two-coloured
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
By IDA BAILEY
A
• In America's miracle kitchen
the housewife need never stir from a control panel which is like the cockpit of spaceship.
by ANNE
SHARPLEY
Being in two places at once is almost possible with this rotating TV monitor in the kitchen...
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You might actually decide to make some original cooked food for your friends. Then you Bash a few menus on to the wall. I am afraid you will have to get up at this paint and go and wave your hand at the air-conditioned vegetable store. "Grrr"" it goes and you throw your vegetables into their pre- a choice of parer unit, with buttons that read "Peel, xilce, dice, chop, grote, grind, crash and juice." While you are there help yourself at the beverage dispenser where any known beverage at any known tamperI→ ture is there at the touch of o bution, plus growing drink su boards and growling glassstoren and ice in any form, you could mention.
OPENED
Cans of food you dial for- and they arrive rondy opened, if you so desire. Don't forgot to keep flicking in to all ther rest of the rooms in the house to see on your screen that all in well, And it you want to change the colour of the cinema organ type lighting that glows around you, consult the mood lighting system and change or mix the colours to suit your mood.
Cooking you can do two ways. Thero is the white cool shelf pround your planning centre
Or, if you find it easier to at which, in fact, is your cooking wave your hand at it rather in the manner of u royal lady, at your planning centre and range: or there is a tragile- cup flash an up-to-the-minute food looking clear plastic box that your refrigerators, store. bourds and can arsenal will inventory on to a wall panel looks more like something to check supplies that present orchids in than to cook emerge with a subdued elec- you can
n joint. way. tronic growl "gre.".
SOMETHING NEW IN HOT
HORS
D'OEUVRES
The cooking range stays cold pa ski slope, no matter how many pots you have bubbling on it, and should a cooking small escape the electronic purifying system will soon take care of that.
Baking a cake? Wave your hand again and down comes a completo mixing unit with beaters, whirlers and whatnot that ITA cleaned by Bigh frequency waves the second you Add
them 3 alleed hard-cooked | retract
(Da are pl and 4 tsp. salt. Stir all at once their juice with 2 tbsp. butter
saucepans, overs and imple- into the balling mixture, Cook or margarine, top. ground cage. alir
Arrange on shredded lettuce. menta). constantly until dough black pepper, 1/10 isp. onion forms a ball and leaves oldes of powder and 1⁄4 tsp. crumbled Garnish with mayonnaise and 1 Top chopped hard-cooked egg. whole thyme leaves. (6°CɔEMEMBER when we Austrálian ladies were when pan clean. Cool.
Add 4 demonstrated
eggs, one
When the edges curl, udd the each salad with a stuffed dive Cream
Ume, thoroughly beating in each be heated milk. Add salt to taste, or bit of pickle. fore adding the next.
Gamish with minced parsley, "We Alled the cream puf
Exs Asparagus Salad:
"R were on tour in Aus- we
tralia, Madame, giving those Puffs Melba!"
cream.
big theatre food presenta shells with ice cream, Chef," I tions 7" reminisced the Chef. said, "and served them topped "And how interested the with Melba sauce and whipped
PARTY PUFFS
"Our
Australian
friends would be equally enthusiastic over our now tiny party salad puffs to serve as a hot bora d'oeuvre with the hot crabmeat, salmon, or chicken almond fill-
Make it a Pioneer Easter
Hide and sleekt Encircls him with this supple Pioners Mellow-tong bolt. Hand stained was finish for that expensive
- Look.
Pioneer
The mask of a site
Star in stripes: The stripe's the thing in this Pioneer elastic belt, sling and smooth, with smart leather trim. Perfect for collegiates and post grads alike.
At a
Finish as previously directed,
SUNDAY DINNER
Celery Saladettea Nut Dressing
Roast Beef ou Jus Pan Roast Potatous und Onions
Raisin Gingerbread Whipped Topping Coffee Теа MIK Orange Shortcake Now Eng-
ing. A rosetta of whipped land: This easy-do dessert a cream cheese should be placed perfect Anish to a dinner star-
on each."
All measurements are ieval for a ring oyster stew.
recipes
Just baka one recipe rich, bak- Party Salad Puffe: Make up 1 ing powder biscuit dough in a recipe standard cream puff thin layer in a 7x1-19, hal- dough or use the new cream low puz
puff mix. In elther case, maka Cut in halves, butter gener- very small puffs using 1⁄2 tsp. ously, put together and top with dough por pun. Drop on baking slightly warmed, sugared sliced shoot.
otanges and their juice,
TOMORROW'S DINNER Herbed Oyster Stew in Bowls Warm Beeded Rolls Egg-Asparagus-Lettuce Balad Orange Shortcake Coffee Ton. Muk Herbod. Orsier Blows Heat 24. 0, milk,
Bake about 10 min. in a moderate ovan, 375 F. or until púlty and browned. Fill while hot with hot 'erebaneat, salmon or chicken salad for a hot hors d'oeuve. Makes about 40 puffs. Cream Puff Dough: In a saucepan, combino 1 v. bolling water and is c. butter or mar- garine,
Meantime, sift together 1 c. Separately host i pt. shucked alreadyettled enriched four or thawed, frozen oysters and
Drain
and dice the contents 1 (1 lb.)
cun
Ruparagus.
TRICK OF THE CHEF
Top
rolls
Your clear plastic oven will cook your cake lay three minutes, It rises before your very eyes with micro waves and afaya na cold as a cucumber frume. Too much trouble to actually cook? Then you can always do a Hiilo dialling and button-pushing ... and the whole meal will bo after by your magic meal-maker which moves tha foods into their proper spoking
warming And
compartments without you thinking about it further.
ready-to-brown Add 1 c. shredded heart with poppy, colery or caraway leaves of lettuce, 4 c.
looked sliced seed, brush them lightly with on stuffed olives and 1/8 o. French egg yolk mixed with 2 "tap, milk, dressing mixed with 1 tbsp. strew on and bake as directed mayonnaiso, Chill 15 min, on the pkg.
FOR AFTERNOON Los pr. party refreshments, fill hot, awam
buff shells with either hot crabmeat, gulmon or 'chicken salad."
A CLEANER
Should something have fallen on your speckless floor, you press shether button and a self- propelled cleanor, like a futuris- ile clockwo moum, ecrily darts about vacuuming, washing and drying it for you,
You prom another button to select whether you will use your best or second-best chinn --and out creeps a trolley carrying your choice to the table (after) the meal it wilą take it back and wash it all for you. All gadgeti look after their own wake, E Fiening and cleaning, blog {bem).
The doorbell ringi-roja talo swift look througe your V acrpen. It's the briden club- all ready to be greated with fa immemorial “Tve had a teerple