Cheap Bar

Many an interior decorator has made profit and reputation by designing and outfitting elaborate drinking rooms in smart U. S. homes (TIME, Sept. 9). For homes in the medium income brackets, specially constructed bars are purchasable at about $200. Last week the Woodworkers' Guild, No. 103 Lafayette St., Manhattan, reasoning that liquor drinking also occurs in homes at the bottom of the income scale, and that poor people might also prefer to imbibe in stylish and fashionable surroundings, offered such drinkers a collapsible bar with a real brass rail for the sum of $35.*

The fixture is in ebony finish, trimmed in colors to match any wall. It is four feet long, of regulation height (43 in.) and about six glasses deep. Beneath the bar is a serving shelf large enough to hold four dozen quart bottles. The bar itself is concave to admit the paunch of an old-time 'tender. When not in use the whole thing can be folded up, stowed away in a closet if, of course, the bottles have first been disposed of.

*Orders to the Manhattan chapter of the Guild are relayed throughout the land to local chapters, which follow standard specifications.

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