International studio (14.1901)

The National Competition

DESIGN FOR A DAMASK TABLE NAPKIN

BY JAMES STOOPE (BELFAST)

previous years; the Glasgow work is
very unequal, but several examples are
distinctly good. |

The use of gesso seems to have waned
a little in the favour of the competitors,
and indeed it is at the best an exacting
and limited medium—all the more fasci-
nating perhaps for certain subtle effects
in decorative colour. A good example
of its qualities occurs in a smoker’s
cabinet, ingeniously and very tastefully
planned, both in structure and decora-
tion, by Edith James (Bradford). Here

DESIGN FOR A PLATE BY THOMAS DICKINSON

a newel-post, which is very simply and pleasantly
treated, the post well-proportioned and the ornament
interesting. The complete drawings with detail
of ornament are, of course, shown beside the actual
post. Some designs for the decoration of a music-
room, by Charles Gascoyne (Nottingham), are a
little lavish in colour, but agreeable and sound in
their general scheme. In the architectural exteriors
a little plaster model for
a fountain, by David H.

Hodge (Plymouth), is one
of the most promising
efforts of the year. Designs
for the larger kinds of
metal-work are fewer than
usual ; but Thomas W.

Bisgrove (Holloway) has a
graceful little convention
from the violet applied to a
letter-box frame for cast
bronze, and Walter Hayes
(Birmingham) a vigorous
modelled design for a door-
plate and handle on a
rather massive scale. In
cartoons for stained glass,
the Liverpool, Birmingham,
and Nottingham schools
sustain their reputation of lace collar

BY EDITH EMERSON (DUBLIN)

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