Appeal for Elegance

I really enjoyed Barbara Thornburg’S photo essay on the Encinitas house designed by Ted Smith, but only up to a point (“Fun House,” Style, June 25). The house itself was fascinating and its layout intriguing, but those interiors were beyond awful. That look, something of a cross between “Romper Room” and a Hollywood-set-director-on-acid, exhibits no taste, other than perhaps a camp sensibility that dates itself almost immediately.

Enough of this loving-hands-at-home nonsense of “Let’s buy a sofa at a thrift shop and paint polka dots on it.” Please, let’s try for some elegance instead.

Donald Rawley

Sherman Oaks