Walnut Finished Redwood with Sand Blasted Panels in American Can Office

The American Can Company recently completed beautiful new offices in the Hunter-Dulin lSuilding, in San Francisco, and when it came to decorating and finishing tire interior of their offices they looked about for the most beautiful effects that human ingenuity could devise. They decided on Redlvood.

When the decision reached the ears of the general architect of the building, he demurred, feeling that just plain Redwood would be out of place in so beautiful a suite of offices. He was overruled by the officials of the American Can Company, and the r,vork of clecorating and finishing their offices was given to Mr. James W. Rainey, from the office of W. Horace Austin, in Long Beach California. lVIr. Rainey drew the plans and designs for the paneled walls, and he collaborated with the greatest living expert in Redwood finishing and decorating,- Mr. L. S. Stockford.

The accompinying photograp'hs give some idea of the result, although it requires the close evidence of sight and touch to fully appreciate the wonderful effects achieved. For many, many experts have already declared that these are the most beautifully and artistically and attractively decorated and finished offices in San Francisco.

The rvalls are covered rvith Redr,vood from floor to ceilitg. The character of the paneling may be noted from the pictures. The panels are edge grain, figured, kiln dried Redrvood. They were treated lvith iron and acid stain, oiled, filled for color, shellacked, glazecl, and waxed. The designed parts of the panels are sand blasted and hand tooled for relief carved effect. The unrvorked portions of the panels have a wonderful Old ltalian Walnut finish, rvhich is lovely to look upon, and rich as rvalnut in its appearance, yet softer in its luster. To the touch these panels are soft and smooth as velvet. The sand blasted designs are rvonderfully done, and the entire efiect is to make one entering one of these rooms fairly gasp rvith surprise at the soft, lustrous beauty of the walls.

Walnut has been eclipsed, improved upon, super-beautified, and the cost is about one half that of Walnut.

It is a genuine tribute to the qualities of Redwood that a concern like the American Can Company, rvho were interested only in the effects achieved and not in the cost, should choose Redwood for their beautiful offices. And it is a

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