29 JANUARY 1921, Page 15

COLOUR IN OUR STREETS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR, I am much interested in the two letters in your issues for January 1st and 8th on " Colour in Our Streets," for I have long wondered whether it would be possible to reform shop blinds. They add to the gloom and depression and same- ness of the streets on a Saturday afternoon and Sunday by their drab, or dark, dead surfaces. Could not drop-scene painters copy good pictures, tapestries, cartoons, frescoes, &c., or make suitable designs which could be printed on canvas blinds? Scenes giving artistio colouring, also distance, with sufficient dignity of subject. The shop blinds of a whole street might be made to harmonize, one leading on to another in scenic