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The Idea: Black and silver, mirrored, pastel-colored bathrooms. The Motive: To make housewives proud of the bathroom; to make this room as modern as the rest of the apartment, flat, house, etc. The Story: Pierre Dutel, also Kerstin Taube, Manhattan interior decor-tors, are sponsoring mirror-tiled bathrooms,tubs & washstands encased in mirrored glass, swan fixtures.* Reflections from the mirrors to the right, reflections from the mirrors to the left confront the bather. To the U. S. soon will come turquoise blue porcelain tubs, basins, says M. Dutel.
*Josephine Bonaparte was one of the first sponsors of swan fixtures. At Malmaison, she had such fixtures on her bathtub.
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