International studio (25.1905)

classic civilization, is a perfectly logical one, and
the task of the sculptors, however difficult, must
have been a most interesting one. The relief is in
no case much greater than three-quarters of an
inch, and for the most part much less than this.
The dial face, of which we show an illustration,
is the work of the same sculptors for another
client, who intends to set up the dial in his
Californian garden.
THE GEORGE N. PiERCE COMPANY, of Buffalo,
N. Y., is offering $1,000 in prizes for designs to
improve the appearance of motor cars. The prizes
are divided as follows: (1) Specifications for motor
car, open bodies, first prize, $250; second prize,
$100. (2) Specifications for motor car, enclosed or
Limousine bodies, first prize, $2go; second prize,
$100. (3) Specifications for colour designs for
motor car bodies, first prize, $200; second prize,
$100. The company, which is engaged in the manu-
facture of motor cars, feels that the mechanical
development has distanced the artistic design, that

the attention of designers has
not yet been properly enlisted
in the matter of shapes, which
shall be pleasing to the eye
without sacrificing usefulness.
In designing the lines of
coaches and carriages, the
fact has always been taken
into account that horses are
to be attached, thus produc-
ing, with the horses, a com-
plete picture. On the other
hand designers of automo-
biles, as was perhaps inevit-
able, have, except in the case
of the touring car, simply used
carriages and coaches with the
horses cut off, resulting in an
odd and displeasing appear-
ance.
THE GUILD OF ARTS AND
CRAFTS, of New York, held its
fifth annual exhibition recently
at the Guild House, 109 East
Twenty-third Street, New
York, where there were dis-
played examples of various
handicrafts, such as basketry,
book-binding, baticks, bead
work, embroideries, enamels,
furniture, metal work, pottery,
inlaid pottery, porcelains, stencils, textiles and
wrought leathers.
AN INTERESTING art that the advance of modern
reproductive processes has not served to stifle is the
illumination of manuscript. The demand for this
work has narrowed to a restricted sphere of use-
fulness, but within these limits it still exacts the
skill and artistry of the highest description. In this
city Ames & Rollinson probably still remain at the
forefront in the work of engrossing and similar
designing. The head of the business, being asked
recently to what he attributed the wide reputation
that the firm enjoys,'replied: "We are designers,
not imitators. We don't peddle our work out
among cheap men. All of it is done right here
among our trained men, many of whom have been
here for years, grown up with the business. We all
work hard and study hard." This is the only atti-
tude which can afford real success in the peculiarly
painstaking art of illumination. Richly illuminated
work as applied to engrossing is one of this firm's

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