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such as taffeta. Instead of ruffles,
tailored details such as pleats or
simple buttons at the back are a
wonderful way to update uphol-
stery.

Every decade also has its own
color palate. Margaret Walch, the
director of the Color Association
of the United States, an industry
group that forecasts color popu-
larity, reports that the °90s palate
has lots of nature-based
“ecological”? colors and ‘*global’’
colors such as greens, blues and
strong yellows, in contrast to the
80s high-tech palate of black,
grey and white.

These colors till surface in
every area of home furnishings —
paint, fabrics, bathroom fixtures,
tiles, appliances and towels —
Walch says.

McFadden of the Coo-
per-Hewitt also thinks of interior
design in global and ecological
terms. A question designers will
continue to address is, ‘‘How can
you design something so_ that
everyone — children, the handi-
capped, the elderly — can use it?"

According to McFadden, the
changes in our homes will reflect
the growing awareness of the en-
vironment, unsafe materials and
our declining natural resources.

He says an important book for

the decade will be The Healthy

House by Jay Bower (Lyle
Stuart), with its focus on design
that promotes and enhances a
healthy life.

Instead of telling readers how
their homes should look in the
1990s, House Beautiful asked

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them what kind of house they
longed for in this decade.

Then the editors. with the help
of New Haven architect Melanie
Taylor and decorator Nancy
Braithwaite of Atlanta, built: and
decorated a full-size model house,
which was displayed at the Na-
tional Association of Home
Builders convention and show in
Atlanta earlier this year and was
featured in the February issue of
House Beautiful.

JoAnn Barwick, House
Beautiful’s editor-in-chief,
describes the readers’ response this
way: ‘‘Our readers did not long
for a high-tech machine. The
qualities most valued today are
comfort and tradition, combined
with the best of relaxed modern
conveniences in a family home
that expresses personal style.**

Barwick describes the house as
traditional, yet, in today’s spirit,
it is sunny, hospitable and flexi-
ble.

The romantic master bedroom
is dominated by an airy iron
bedstead — one of the most pop-
ular pieces of furniture among
House Beautiful’s readers — as
well as a comfortable sofa, arm-
chairs and a tea table.

The Gath has all the modern
comforts that readers requested,
such as a raised whirlpool tub and
a steam shower. Outdoor living
areas, such as the columned
porch, a shady pergola and a
sun-filied conservatory off the
dining room, expand the clap-
board home.

Along with these new ideas
there’s currently a large revival of

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1960s-style furnishings. Such
revivals, say designers, are as in-
evitable as the changes at the
beginning of a new decade.

“They are based on the reas-
surance af the familiar, and they
represent stability,’” savs Hollis.

“People react’ favorably to
revivals,"’ says Staniey Barrows,
former chairman at the Fashion
Institute of Technology and past
lecturer of historic styles at Par-
sons School of Design.

“They're usually from a period
when people can remember having
a good time. A revival is usually
an extreme style that is rejected by
the next generation but later reex-
amined by the following genera-
tion,’’ he says.

— Distributed by the Los Angeles
Times Syndicate.

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