DOI issue:
No. 93 (November, 1904)
DOI article:Notes on the crafts
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26963#0122
Notes on the Crafts
and a metal lantern. The body
of the lamp is of iridescent cop-
per with a leaded glass shade,
representing sunset at sea—a
luminous red and yellow sky re-
flected in the water. The lantern
is iridescent copper, with burnt
orange and emerald green or red
lights, after the style of the 'old
Japanese from the 13th dynasty.
It would be quite impossible
to convey to our readers the
wonderful variety of Miss Lav-
aron’s work, or to convey by a
mere illustrated article any idea
of the excellence of it. The dis-
covery of the secret of treating
metals so as to produce these
wonderfully artistic effects is an
achievement of which Miss Lav-
aron may rightly be proud. From
the discovery has grown a unique
industry, limited to her own han-
dicraft, known by the title of
“Lavaron Art Metal.” To fully
appreciate the unusual and purely
artistic charm of the work, it must
be seen.
miss lavaron’s jewellery
Further, it will be observed, as we look round the
studio, that just as in olden days an artist was at one
and the same time an architect, a tailor, a gold-
smith, and, perhaps, even a barber, so here we
find the same inspiration resulting in the production
of such utilitarian articles as lamps, lanterns and
household vessels, together with the most light and
fantastic ornaments for the adornment of the female
figure. We show among our illustrations two neck-
laces, one finished in Roman fashion, produced
in old silver and set with Spanish topaz; another in
a green gold metal
with azurite sett-
ing. The brace-
lets are respect-
ively of lapis la-
zuli and baroque
pearls, and of
green gold metal
set with opal.
On the utilitarian
side of the artist’s
activities we show
a lamp with shade,
In the process of its manufac-
ture, leather is a much belaboured material, and
when subjected to the efforts of the craftsman, it
is to be feared it sometimes suffers unduly in
addition. An excellent attitude toward leather
as a medium is expressed by two workers,
some examples of whose book-bindings we
have the pleasure of reproducing herewith, who
contend that before beginning his work the crafts-
man should candidly look upon the beauties of the
untouched leather before him and ask himself
whether or not he is about to improve it. No one
x
and a metal lantern. The body
of the lamp is of iridescent cop-
per with a leaded glass shade,
representing sunset at sea—a
luminous red and yellow sky re-
flected in the water. The lantern
is iridescent copper, with burnt
orange and emerald green or red
lights, after the style of the 'old
Japanese from the 13th dynasty.
It would be quite impossible
to convey to our readers the
wonderful variety of Miss Lav-
aron’s work, or to convey by a
mere illustrated article any idea
of the excellence of it. The dis-
covery of the secret of treating
metals so as to produce these
wonderfully artistic effects is an
achievement of which Miss Lav-
aron may rightly be proud. From
the discovery has grown a unique
industry, limited to her own han-
dicraft, known by the title of
“Lavaron Art Metal.” To fully
appreciate the unusual and purely
artistic charm of the work, it must
be seen.
miss lavaron’s jewellery
Further, it will be observed, as we look round the
studio, that just as in olden days an artist was at one
and the same time an architect, a tailor, a gold-
smith, and, perhaps, even a barber, so here we
find the same inspiration resulting in the production
of such utilitarian articles as lamps, lanterns and
household vessels, together with the most light and
fantastic ornaments for the adornment of the female
figure. We show among our illustrations two neck-
laces, one finished in Roman fashion, produced
in old silver and set with Spanish topaz; another in
a green gold metal
with azurite sett-
ing. The brace-
lets are respect-
ively of lapis la-
zuli and baroque
pearls, and of
green gold metal
set with opal.
On the utilitarian
side of the artist’s
activities we show
a lamp with shade,
In the process of its manufac-
ture, leather is a much belaboured material, and
when subjected to the efforts of the craftsman, it
is to be feared it sometimes suffers unduly in
addition. An excellent attitude toward leather
as a medium is expressed by two workers,
some examples of whose book-bindings we
have the pleasure of reproducing herewith, who
contend that before beginning his work the crafts-
man should candidly look upon the beauties of the
untouched leather before him and ask himself
whether or not he is about to improve it. No one
x