This beautiful vintage green and white entry hall arch was reflected by a mirror that had been placed in a second archway, set into the wall opposite the entrance to the next room.
In the thirties, they felt it was very important that the entrance hall should be gracious… simple in treatment.
Since, in most cases, the hallway ess the threshold of the living room, its wall tones and general atmosphere should blend with the furnishings of the other room, leading one naturally and smoothly into the larger interior.
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The house I grew up in had an arched entry between the living room and the dining room. That house was built in the early 1940s, and the arch was much smaller than the one shown here, but it was the same principle. I always thought the arch to be quite curious, as it must have required a lot of effort to make, and I’ve seen similar arches in other houses of that vintage. They do, after all, give the rooms a certain panache. Perhaps they were a holdover from the time when there were actual doors between the downstairs rooms so they could be closed off to conserve heat, in a time before central heating. Postwar houses usually eliminate the wall between the living and dining rooms completely, if they don’t embrace the “great room” concept of a single living/dining space.