International studio (23.1904)

Notes on the Craps



TABLE EXHIBITED AT ST. LOUIS BY THE GORHAM MFG. CO.
(Front View)

mechanical epoch is successfully effected. A
few illustrations accompany our text and show
some varieties of the designs, of which there are
many. Combinations of clock-cases and book-
shelves, clocks and china cabinets, and one particu-
larly high-standing piece of furniture, combining
cupboards, shelves, and brackets, and showing a
beautifully leaded glass door in front of the pen-
dulum of the clock, is quite a chef d'ceuvre.
In reproducing some of Mr. Otto Heinigke’s glass-
work, we believe that, with the rapid increase in
the establishment of country homes, our readers
will be glad to have suggestions for that important,
and yet not easily selected, embellishment, the deco-
rative glass window. We use the term “decora-
tive” advertently, for in domestic glass-work par-
ticularly color is not by any means an essential, lead
lines alone frequently producing for “ secular ” pur-
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poses a far more satisfactory and fitting result than
the elaborately colored, — painted or stained —
works with which ecclesiastical buildings are gen-
erally furnished. Nor is it difficult to get at the
reason for this. Whatever be designed to adorn
the adjuncts of “ the daily round, the common
task,” the artist should observe the utmost restraint
of expression, both in order that it may be found
not inharmonious with the varying moods and
conditions with which it will of necessity be asso-
ciated, but also in order that the restfulness and
strength of the effect produced be of a kind that may
be repeatedly exerted without deterioration of influ-
ence. In the accompanying examples, taken from
designs kindly lent us by Messrs. Heinigke and
Bowen, it will be noticed how much value and force
is given to that structural portion of the design
— the lead lines; so that while color may be
readily introduced, and even plenty of it, there is a