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NE of the most important ramifications of B. Altman & Co.'s vast establishment is the department for Interior Decoration, located on the Fourth Floor. Maintaining its own studios in the building, with a personnel composed of qualified artists, this department is amply prepared to undertake interior decorative work in all of its branches. Several of America's best known hotels and theatres, as well as a large number of private residences, owe their interior beauty to the artistic resources of the Altman studios. A specialty is made of period interiors, every detail of decoration, with furnishings, draperies and upholstering to harmonize, being carefully planned by men who are experts in their individual lines.

Of equal interest is the department for Decorative Laces, correlated to the Lace Curtain Department. Here, too, is to be found a staff of competent artists, with unusual facilities at their disposal for, the designing and making to order of fine lace curtains and decorative lace pieces of every type and period. The Upholstery Department is another of the distinctive features of the Fourth Floor, its display including very large and comprehensive assortments of curtain materials, cretonnes, decorative drapery fabrics, etc.

An extensive department on this floor is devoted to Art Objects, Bric-a-brac and Lamps. Among other items of more than passing interest shown here is a choice selection of Italian marbles and decorative pieces in terra cotta, especially appealing to persons of culture and artistic taste.

The Fancy Needlework Department, offering many dainty articles of special feminine interest, is also attractively housed on the Fourth Floor; and here, too, are the departments for Household and Decorative Linens, Imported and Domestic Bed-furnishings and other utilitarian commodities.

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