International studio (19.1903)

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designer. Another exhibitor of metal-work is Mr.
Gilbert Bayes, whose bronze door-fittings are strik-
ingiyimaginativeand poetic in treatment, whiie duiy
observing the sobriety and utiiity required of them.
The slender decorative figures which form the loop-
handles, and those in the plates themselves, are
beautifully modelled; beneath them, and har-
monious in treatment, is a letter-box, while at
the upper end the design is hnished by two fine
enamels in dark blue with hints of gold, by Miss
Gertrude Smith.
The work of Mr. Richard Garbe, who has
matured notably in the last three years, also
possesses high qualities of imagination and feeling,
which are well exemplihed in the bronze panel,
<3/ Executed in very low relief,
the modelling reticent and delicate, the sober
beauty of the work is enhanced by its well-chosen
ebony setting. Another interesting piece of deco-
ration in bronze is the dainty little toilet set by
F. Lessore, consisting of brush, comb, and mirror-
frame, chased in designs representing Beauty, Love
and Fame. This also shows the good taste of the
designer in the way it is mounted and set out, no
less than its plan and execution.
In the same hall are some of the best and at the
same time the simplest of
the lamp designs; notably
two brass electric light
pendants by the Birming-
ham Guild of Handicraft,
another by W. B. Mac-
dougall, and another by the
Faulkner Bronze Company,
in which a wise economy
and right combination of
materials are made to
produce the happiest de-
corative results. Instances
of the wrong combination
of materials are unfor-
tunately only too close at
hand ; as, for example, the
use of rough bright-iron
fittings upon furniture of
polished mahogany,
ebony, and other highly
retrned and finished sur-
faces wholly incongruous
with the rnore rugged
metals—a solecism into
which a well-known Lon-
don Guild is very prone
to fall.

Caskets of all sizes, both in wood and metal,
cover a great variety of designs and a wide range
of merit. Among the inlaid work, nothing else
approaches Mr. Clement Heaton's brilliant little
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of those happy cases in which the ready vehicle
seems to run half-way to meet the artist; for the
effect of dawn through the trees, produced by
marquetry in walnut-wood, achieves a wonderful
fascination by quite legitimate means. In another
method, Mr. Joseph E. SouthaM's painted cabinet
is a sound and careful piece of workmanship; and
the charming little modelled and painted panels for
the ends of a workbox, by Robert A. Dawson, are
worthy of note. Among the caskets and jewel-cases
in metal, those by Mr. Alexander Fisher, Miss
Mary G. Houston, Miss Constance E. F. Lawrence,
Miss Esther Catlow, and the Birmingham Guild of
Handicraft are conspicuous. Mr. Fisher's forrns
part of an important group of his enamels and
silver-work in the west room. The body of it is
hammered in one piece like a cup, and the top and
four sides are decorated in the successive keys of
opal, sapphire, ruby, emerald, and pearl. Within
the panels are enamels of kings and queens.
Handsome as this is in its bold contours and rich


DESIGN FOR STAINED GLASS WINDOW

BY IIEYWOOD SUMNER