498 INDEX

Modern color, 114

Modern containers, 364

Modern design, 17, 108

Modern designers, 108

Modern dwellings, 111

Modern flower arrangements, 352, 358

Modern furniture, 115, 216, 217

Modern hollow ware, 327

Modern interior decoration, 112, 114

Modern materials, 108, 110

Modern pictures, 392

Modern regional, 111

Modern silver, 325, 326

Modern style, 107, 108

Modern Swedish style, 115

Modern texture, 15, 114

Modern Tropical style, 115

Modern use of period styles, 78-83

Modern window treatments, 288

Modernism, 3, 5

Modernity in flowers, 352

Mohammedans, 17

Molded glass, 324

Moldings, for pictures, 396

on walls, 169

Monochromatic schemes, 39, 354
Monograms on silver, 326
Monterey furniture, 95
Monterey houses, 68
Moods, see also Expressiveness

in color, 42

in flower arrangement, 352, 370

in table setting, 329

Moors and Moorish, 318, 433, 434, 446
Morris, William, 112
Mortise and tenon joints, 248
Mortlake tapestries, 438
Motifs, 17, 18, 429; see also Traditional
(or period) motifs

American Indian, 273

Egyptian, 470

for dishes, 322

for fabrics, 285

for Oriental rugs, 274, 275

for rugs, 267

for slip covers, 295

for tablecloths, 328

patriotic, 469

Pennsylvania German, 96

Motor rooms, 167

Motorist's room, 412

Mount Vernon, 467

Movement, in flower arrangement, 355

in pictures, 396

Multiple housing projects, 109
Munsell system, 28, 30
Murals, for homes, 5, 44, 45

United States, 387
Museums, 64, 93, 96, 97, 98, 393

Art Institute of Chicago, 97

Brooklyn, 94

French Provincial, 64

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 94, 472

Miahaugen, 64

Norwegian-American Historical, 97

old house, 64

Pennsylvania, 96

Skansen, 64
Music, 161, 233
Musician's room, 414

Nail-head decoration, 433, 434, 471

Napoleon Bonaparte, 469, 470

Napoleon III, 473

Natchez, Mississippi, 64

National Bureau of Standards, 110, 186,

249, 269

Naturalistic motifs, 17, 322
Naturalistic landscaping, 133
Naturalness, 3, 4, 108
Needle-point stem holders, 366
Needlework, 437, 438, 439, 451
Neighborhood, 124
Neo-Qassic furniture, 80
Neo-dassic style, 82, 428, 429

in England, 82, 464, 465, 466, 471

in France, 82, 462, 469, 470

in Italy, 463, 471

in Spain, 471

in United States, 82, 467, 468, 472
Nest of tables, 243
Net curtains, 292
Netherlands, 436
Neutral colors, 37
New England, 67, 266, 438
New Jersey, 67
TjTew Mexico, 68, 69, 95
New Orleans, 70