DOI issue:
No. 91 (Septemner, 1904)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26962#0312
Studio-Talk
water - colours charmingly painted, and distin-
guished by exceptionally pleasant qualities of
colour.
The cabinet illustrated has been made by
Mr. J. P. White, of Bedford, from a design by
Mr. M. H. Baillie Scott. Colour, which forms
an important element in this design, cannot,
of course, be indicated in these photographs.
The cabinet is made in oak stained a dark
bronze-green. On this background the stems
of the roses are set and wrought in pewter, the
thorns being in mother-of-pearl; and these grey
stems with the blue buds, and pink roses with their
grey-green leaves, with touches of bright orange in
the fruit of the rose, constitute the chief dement
in the colour-scheme. The interior is lined with
sycamore, and the parchment tints of this wood
afford a well-marked contrast to the deepness of
the external tones. On this light ground are pink
roses and the metal-work of the handles, which are
in brass and copper coloured by a special
process to assume permanently prismatic tints.
The scale of the photographs hardly admits of
showing the detail of this metal-work, where in
the handle plates the rose motif is again repeated
in minute interlacing stems with leaves and
flowers. _
The rug shown in the illustration is one of
a series designed by Mr. Baillie Scott for
Mr. White. The conditions of manufacture make
the pile rug or carpet unsuitable as a means
for expression of intricate form, for the fluctuating
pile, as well as the rectangular basis of the fabric,
converts the subtle curves of the draughtsman into
broken, meaningless lines. Roses climbing across
the floor, trees laid out flat, or birds skimming
under our feet are all artistically valuable in pro-
portion to the extent in which they persuade us
that they are merely conventional forms—pegs on
which to hang a colour-scheme. This rug is
merely, then, an arrangement of patches of colour,
and has little value in a tone reproduction. Here
are patches of tawny orange, patches of purple, of
green and warm grey and Isabelline white, on a
INLAID CABINET : EXTERIOR
DESIGNED BY M. H. BAII.LIE SCOTT
EXECUTED BY J. P. WHITE
240
water - colours charmingly painted, and distin-
guished by exceptionally pleasant qualities of
colour.
The cabinet illustrated has been made by
Mr. J. P. White, of Bedford, from a design by
Mr. M. H. Baillie Scott. Colour, which forms
an important element in this design, cannot,
of course, be indicated in these photographs.
The cabinet is made in oak stained a dark
bronze-green. On this background the stems
of the roses are set and wrought in pewter, the
thorns being in mother-of-pearl; and these grey
stems with the blue buds, and pink roses with their
grey-green leaves, with touches of bright orange in
the fruit of the rose, constitute the chief dement
in the colour-scheme. The interior is lined with
sycamore, and the parchment tints of this wood
afford a well-marked contrast to the deepness of
the external tones. On this light ground are pink
roses and the metal-work of the handles, which are
in brass and copper coloured by a special
process to assume permanently prismatic tints.
The scale of the photographs hardly admits of
showing the detail of this metal-work, where in
the handle plates the rose motif is again repeated
in minute interlacing stems with leaves and
flowers. _
The rug shown in the illustration is one of
a series designed by Mr. Baillie Scott for
Mr. White. The conditions of manufacture make
the pile rug or carpet unsuitable as a means
for expression of intricate form, for the fluctuating
pile, as well as the rectangular basis of the fabric,
converts the subtle curves of the draughtsman into
broken, meaningless lines. Roses climbing across
the floor, trees laid out flat, or birds skimming
under our feet are all artistically valuable in pro-
portion to the extent in which they persuade us
that they are merely conventional forms—pegs on
which to hang a colour-scheme. This rug is
merely, then, an arrangement of patches of colour,
and has little value in a tone reproduction. Here
are patches of tawny orange, patches of purple, of
green and warm grey and Isabelline white, on a
INLAID CABINET : EXTERIOR
DESIGNED BY M. H. BAII.LIE SCOTT
EXECUTED BY J. P. WHITE
240