Panton Regular

[Rubi Strycker]

Margot was employed for thirty plus years at The Wishing Well Restaurant in Saratoga Springs as a waitress. Those years were happy and a big part of her life. She made many lasting friendships not only with her coworkers but with the patrons as well. She loved her job and looked forward to seeing her regular customers as much as the return customers every year who enjoyed spending summers in Saratoga. Margot was definitely a people person with a firecracker personality.

The family would like to thank every nurse, aide, housekeeper and any other staff who made contact with our Mom at Wesley especially 4 Victoria and 2 Victoria for their love, grace and compassion. They were amazing.

The Panton Chair has always been a favourite of children. They not only like its bright, cheerful colours and smooth curves, but the fact that it is as much fun to play with as it is to sit on. Soon after its introduction, Verner Panton began to consider the idea of producing a child-size version of the chair together with Vitra.
What was financially unfeasible over 35 years ago is now possible: Vitra introduces the Panton Junior, whose production is based on the original plans of Verner Panton. Identical to the regular model with regard to material and shape, the Panton Junior is approximately 25 percent smaller and available in seven different colours. This makes it an ideal chair for children in pre-school and primary grades.

Here is hint number one. It is from not knowing and understanding thehouse in which one has to live, and through purchasing furniture simplybecause we like it, and not because it suits us or our domicile, thatsuch mistakes are made. First know your house; then, and not until then,can you proceed to furnish it in a manner that will result in pleasureto you and your friends for as long as you live in it.

One of the prettiest suburbs we know of is utterly spoiled by its claysoil. In warm days it depresses, in damp it chills; and in an east windthe soil looks so dreary, so parched, that the mere sight of it iswretched, while fog and mist hang over it all the winter, and sour thetempers and warp the minds of the inhabitants until there is a lack ofhospitality and an amount of work for the doctors that is wonderful, ifunpleasant to contemplate.

Indeed, when I have seen the tiny hovels in Mayfair where ladies andgentlemen crowd together, and where their servants herd under tiles orin the damp, dark cellars, I have thought that Fashion and Folly weretwo names for one thing, and have had but a small opinion of those whocould condemn themselves and their poor domestics to such an unhealthyand miserable existence, just because Park Lane is close by and it isfashionable!

He forgets cupboards, and in fact insists on producing month after monthan excellent shell, but one that requires altering considerably by alady before it really can be lived in at all; and I would stronglysuggest that female architects for domestic architecture solely would bea great help to all who have to live in houses planned and executed bymen who have no idea of comfort, and but small appreciation for thetrifles light as air that make all the difference between that and greatdiscomfort.

I can soon alter that, and a tiled hearth is not such a dear or preciousluxury that one cannot afford to put in another in the drawing-room, andit is extremely nice to have a hearth where we can put down our platesand dishes to keep hot should any one be late; and the other details aregenerally so small in their differences that I am sure there is noreason why we should not have strength of mind to be different to ournext-door neighbour, who most probably has taken things as she foundthem, and in consequence is rarely, if ever, without a headache.

I myself should like to see every beautiful thing common. I should loveto know that all the world saw, possessed, and cared for art colours andart furniture, and had nice tastes, and I look forward to a time wheneven our poor brethren will appreciate all the inexpensive lovelinessesthat are to be had now by those who know where to get them, and I trustthat some day free art exhibitions and lectures may teach them what realbeauty is, and so enlighten and enliven lives that at present are of thedullest and most sober description.

Therefore, in selecting house and furniture, and choosing your rooms andappropriating them, remember the first thing is to be cheerful. Darkdays will come in life to us all, but they will not be hopeless and toodreadful to be endured if we cultivate a cheerful, contented spirit, andinsist on having cheerful surroundings.

I at once departed to look at it, and found all the accommodation forthe unfortunate maids consisted of a square box, one half stove, theother half door, a couple of shelves for all the bridal glass and china,and a larder in which one could have placed the meat, butter, and breadwithout moving from the fireside, and which, useless enough in winter,would be doubly so when summer came, and added another trial to those ofthe already overburdened cook. However, the agreement was signed and thehouse taken for five years, during which, I am quite certain, no servantwould remain a moment over her month, and in consequence of which thatestablishment will, I know, be in a continual state of misery andturmoil.

If their household consist of two maids and Edwin and Angelina alone,their batterie de cuisine need be neither an extensive nor expensiveone, for after a lengthy experience of maidens and their ways I havecome to the conclusion that the fewer things they have the fewer theywill spoil, and that we are far more likely to have clean saucepans andpots if there are none to put aside and no others to use, if, as themaid thinks, she has not time at her disposal for the moment in which toclean them. Now if she have only the saucepans in actual use they mustbe cleaned as soon as they have been used, or the food will mostcertainly tell tales of her.

The oilcloth made like an old Roman mosaic would of course be preferableas far as appearance goes, but this costs double, and therefore I wasobliged to have an ordinary and commonplace-looking one instead; butshould the sthetic eye revolt against the ugly colours of cheapoilcloth, I may mention it can be painted any colour easily, and thiscan make it at once pretty to look at.

I am of opinion that such a dado would be a great thing in the kitchenitself, where the walls so speedily become soiled by the heat from thehot-water pipes that the kitchen soon becomes dismal for the servants tosit in. I do wish it would enter into the plan of even quite a smallhouse to have a tiny room where the servants could sit and work, or havetheir meals, out of the kitchen atmosphere; and then perhaps I shouldnot mind the look of the kitchen quite so much; but even in a largehouse there is seldom a room one can set aside for this purpose, andoften enough the only place a maid has to live in is the one in whichall the cooking is done, and where, winter and summer alike, a largefire has to be kept going from morning until night.

In the first place, Angelina must show her cook that she really doesknow her duties as mistress of a household, and she must be able to holdher own when cook demands extravagant supplies; while at the same timeshe must not expect a quart of milk a day to suffice for a householdconsisting of a baby, two servants, the master and mistress, and last,but not least, two cats, as a friend of mine did; but she mustdiligently study beforehand quantities of divers things, so that she maybe ready when called upon to prove she really does know what she istalking of; and a judicious selection of kitchen utensils will point outto her cook at starting that her mistress has ideas of her own on thesubject of household management.

The great curse now of English households is this seeming to be what youare not, this wretched pretending of 400l. to be 800l.; the shirkingof work, domestic details, and common-sense housekeeping thatcharacterises the bride of this day, who only wants to enjoy herself andspend a little more, see a little more gaiety than the last bride did,and who sees nothing holy in the name of wife, only a mere emancipationfrom the schoolroom; who wants to decorate a house, not make a home; andwho sees in her children, not human souls to train for time and foreternity, but pretty dolls to dress, to attract attention, or tiresomeobjects to be got rid of at school at the earliest opportunity.

That marriage means much more than this is gradually borne in upon thebutterfly, who either sobers down in the course of years, and becomesfaded and worn and peevish; or else, impatient of control, she breaksall bounds, and the whole family is disgraced by an esclandre that isas terrible as it is preventible. With such women as this we havenothing to do; but many of these poor creatures would have been savedhad they been brought up properly, so I trust, after all, my words onthe subject of common-sense housekeeping will not be considered out ofplace.

Still, until that is done I strongly advise Angelina to pay the milkmanrather than the brewer, and by drinking milk herself to set an examplewhich will speak louder than any amount of argument. And general ideas,too, can only be given on the subject of meals. Yet general ideas aremost useful as a species of foundation on which to raise the rest of thefabric, so I will shortly sketch out now a foundation scheme that shouldbe of great assistance to those girls who are beginning housekeeping26 onsmall means, and less knowledge of the subject on which depends so muchof their welfare and happiness.

It maybe of some little assistance to Angelina if I begin my shortdissertation on meals by giving her one or two hints as to what to havefor breakfast, before passing on to other subjects, as in some smallhouseholds this always appears to me to be somewhat of a stumbling-blockto a young mistress, accustomed to see a large amount of variety,prepared for a grown-up family.

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