" And where two were ready for the end that should be gained the pleading was not over-long, though the thought was very strange for this simple maiden of Murano; so the precious painting was finished and in the hands of the decorators.

Here a great pile of ancient ice gave the whole a reddish tinge; and here a broad pan of transparent new ice cast down the deep-blue of the sky; and again a thicker floe admitted a light as mellow as expert decorators could have devised.

In the building trades, for example, bricklayers, masons, carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, painters and decorators, find that their respective trade interests meet, and are interwoven at a score of different points.

Painters, decorators, cabinet-makers had a merry time of it.

Early in February Maulevrier sent decorators and upholsterers into the old house in Curzon Street, which was ready before the middle of May to receive his lordship and his young wife, the girlish daughter of a Florentine nobleman, a gazelle-eyed Italian, with a voice whose every tone was music, and with the gentlest, shyest, most engaging manners of any girl in Florence.

Ladders were raised against the walls; men were at work upon the scaffolding; painters and decorators were busy inside; great rolls of paper were being delivered from a cart at the door; an upholsterer's wagon also stopped the way; nothing was to be seen but workmen, swarming from the kitchens to the garret.

He summoned to his aid all the architects and artists and contractors in India, and a hundred thousand mechanics, stone cutters, masons and decorators were kept busy for two scores of years erecting the palaces, tombs and temples that now testify with mute eloquence to the genius of the architects and builders of those days.

'Ow about callin' ourselves 'Messrs. Toady and Kippy, Decorators'?'" "That's what it means," said the senior partner.

Foreigners were continually brought into China as decorators of Buddhist temples, since the Chinese could not know at first how the new gods had to be presented.

They are usually covered with white wrappings, which, to the casual visitor, have the appearance of decorators' dust-cloths, but are really "houseling linen."

Doubts have been thrown upon this, and the damage placed to the account of amateur decorators at the time of harvest festivals!

Fresco-painters, masters of the easel, workmen in mosaic and marquetrie, sculptors, builders, arras-weavers, engravers, decorators of ceilings and of floors, all laboured under his eye, receiving designs from, his hand, and executing what was called thereafter by his name.

We are to have it somewhere downtown, to-day,the Waldorf, I believe,as mamma expects to spend most of the afternoon at the decorators, to see the designs for the Oaklands hangings and furniture, and," glancing at the big clock, between the lifts, as Miss Lavinia made her last purchase, "it's high time for me to go and pick her up.

The house was full of the employees of florists, dressmakers, decorators, each one striving to outdo the other in servility.

Theresa and Ross stood on the front porch alone in the moonlight, looking out over the enchantment-like scene into which the florists and decorators had transformed the terraces and gardens.

The young decorators.

The young decorators.

Leo Edwards (A); 21Jan65; R354109. Poppy Ott & Co., inferior decorators.

© 28Mar40; AA331019. Hammond, Inc. (PWH); 29Mar67; R406981. HAMPSHIRE, CLAUDE V. A handy reference chart for interior decorators.

Interior decorators.

The young decorators.

The young decorators.

Architectural graphic standards for architects, engineers, decorators, builders and draftsmen, by Charles George Ramsey and Harold Reeve Sleeper.

Leo Edwards (A); 21Jan65; R354109. Poppy Ott & Co., inferior decorators.

Interior decorators.