Hammond Lumber Co. Have Attractive Exhibit at Los Angeles

Tfre Hammond Lumber Company's exhibit in new Architlcts' Building, Fifth and Figueroa streets, Los Angeles, includes over twenty varieties of imported and domestic woQds and portrays their many adaptations to the interior and exterior of today's home.

In the construction of the exhibit and in the presentation of the various metals, builders' hardware, etc., an earnest endeavor has "been made to make the Hammond display, in the new Architects' Building, interesting and infoimitive to home-owner, builder and contractor.- An effort has been made to show the many beautiful efiects which may be gained through'''the use of various wogds for interior and' exterior home coristluction.

Of modified Mayan arihitecture,'the frame construction is entirely of Redwood, with.sand;blasted interior, depict- ing the natural beauty of this'Qalifornia wood. Redwood seems to lend itself so perfectlftg;ithat particular style of architectural designing that depicts certain periods and requires aged-finished effects.

The interior setting of the exhibit has been planned in such a manner that one may readilv visualize the various woods exhibited, in the true setting of the home. Six alcoves, with sides of plain oak and with bases laid in artistic patterns of Black Walnut, Guijo and various other woods, show how unusual color combinations rqay be secured through the use of these various hardrvoods.'

Six species of domestic and imported hardwoods are exhibited in the case work of the alcoves, each finished in harmonious tones.

Doors, in twenty varieties of soft lvoods, are displayed in convenient and attractive manner, showing the adapta- bility of these woods to nearly every form of architecture.

The flooring, laid in basket-weave parquetry, is of Ritter Appalachian Quartered- Oak, _portraying. a pleasing, durable underfoot woodlvork for the home.