Decorative Couch: The easiest solution to revitalising a couch or armchair is to buy a length of attractive fabric and drape it over the furniture. How much you want it to overhang and how much you tuck it in depends of the style of the rest of the decor in the room. You can finish the cover with fringe, or a decorative couch trim or braid. A lovely drape can be achieved with an ethnic bedspread or a beautiful woven rug.
One way of breaking up the expanse of loosely draped material is to cover it with an array of brightly colored cushions. This is especially effective if you use scraps or remnants of expensive fabrics such as plain silk or brocade, and make small cushions in different sizes and shapes.
QUILLER-COUCH, kwil'er-kooch', SIR Arthur Thomas (pen name Q), British author: b. Fowey, Cornwall, England, Nov. 21, 1863; d. there, May 12, 1944. He was educated at Oxford, where he was classical lecturer in 1886-1887 and won some success with his first novel, Dead Man's Rock (1887). In 1887 he began a literary career in London, where in 1889 he joined the staff of Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid's newly established Liberal weekly, the Speaker, with which he retained connection for 10 years. Several of his contributions to it appear in the collections of his short stories, Noughts and Crosses (1891) and The Delectable Duchy (1893). In 1898 he was given the commission to complete Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel, St. Ives. Quiller-Couch was knighted in 1910 and in 1912 became professor of English literature at Cambridge. From 1891 he lived at Fowey and in 1937 served as its mayor. |
