DOI issue:
No. 89 (July, 1904)
DOI article:Notes on the crafts
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26962#0120
Notes on the Crafts
VASE MARTEI.lt
BY THE GORHAM MEG. CO.
refreshing self-limitation in the artist’s
expression.
It may strike an American as
strange and unaccountable to state
that most foreigners of artistic taste
and experience who visit the Con-
gressional Library at Washington
are almost flabbergasted at the lavish
and unrestrained color-schemes ot
the mural decoration, while they turn
their eyes towards the excellent yet
restrained brilliance and fine taste
displayed in the glass-work under
the dome, — a masterpiece of fitness
of the expression of a fit idea. We
do not show examples of this well-
known work, but give instead some
of Mr. Otto Heinigke’s original and
deft applications of the principles of
lead lines in domestic glass-work.
We have not space to enlarge upon
these principles here; but we may
recoiled that the supreme usefulness
of leaded glass in domestic architec-
ture is the breadth given thereby to
interiors in relieving the suddenness
of the window cavities and carrying
the eye pleasantly across them by
means of properly designed leaded
“ texture,” and to exteriors in some-
what the same manner. Our ex-
amples show a window for the
Carnegie Library at Savannah, Ga.
(Ackerman & Ross, Architects),
where both the leads themselves
and also the barring combine to
add force to the general effect; we
show also a particularly delightful
and unique “ motif,” representing
Saint George and the Dragon, for
the corner of a window in a private
house, and which conveys all the
freshness and freedom of the “ Art
Nouveau,” while adhering to the best
principles of the medium. The one
side of a double window, of which
we give an illustration, was de-
signed, amongst many others, for the
residence of Mr. George Gould,
Georgian Court, N. J.; and finally
we give another example of the same
original style of Saint George and
the Dragon, a ship on the sea, de-
signed for a house at Montclair,
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VASE MARTEI.lt
BY THE GORHAM MEG. CO.
refreshing self-limitation in the artist’s
expression.
It may strike an American as
strange and unaccountable to state
that most foreigners of artistic taste
and experience who visit the Con-
gressional Library at Washington
are almost flabbergasted at the lavish
and unrestrained color-schemes ot
the mural decoration, while they turn
their eyes towards the excellent yet
restrained brilliance and fine taste
displayed in the glass-work under
the dome, — a masterpiece of fitness
of the expression of a fit idea. We
do not show examples of this well-
known work, but give instead some
of Mr. Otto Heinigke’s original and
deft applications of the principles of
lead lines in domestic glass-work.
We have not space to enlarge upon
these principles here; but we may
recoiled that the supreme usefulness
of leaded glass in domestic architec-
ture is the breadth given thereby to
interiors in relieving the suddenness
of the window cavities and carrying
the eye pleasantly across them by
means of properly designed leaded
“ texture,” and to exteriors in some-
what the same manner. Our ex-
amples show a window for the
Carnegie Library at Savannah, Ga.
(Ackerman & Ross, Architects),
where both the leads themselves
and also the barring combine to
add force to the general effect; we
show also a particularly delightful
and unique “ motif,” representing
Saint George and the Dragon, for
the corner of a window in a private
house, and which conveys all the
freshness and freedom of the “ Art
Nouveau,” while adhering to the best
principles of the medium. The one
side of a double window, of which
we give an illustration, was de-
signed, amongst many others, for the
residence of Mr. George Gould,
Georgian Court, N. J.; and finally
we give another example of the same
original style of Saint George and
the Dragon, a ship on the sea, de-
signed for a house at Montclair,
cccxiv