DOI Artikel:
Levetus, A. S.: Some Viennese flower-stands and vases
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43450#0202
Viennese Flower-Stands
MAJOLICA FLOWER-STAND WITH MOSAIC BORDER. DE-
SIGNED AND EXECUTED IN THE ATELIER OF J. BOCK
sweetest perfumes of heavenly grace, with the in-
sidious presence of loud-toned, loud-voiced vulgarity.
And when this abnormal intrusion of paper is placed
in an exquisite flower-pot the purchasers accept the
base with the same glee as they do the real; and it
is not otherwise with the fair recipients, who admire
the paper as much as the flowers. This effort to
decorate flowers, whose office pure and simple is to
decorate, can only be deplored. There was a time
when Vienna could vie with the world in the loveli-
ness of her floral decorations as executed by the
florists themselves, and when it was a pure delight
to gaze in their windows. Now one is obliged to
ask, Is the art lost ? The artists are ready and
willing to advise. The flower-stands or other re-
ceptacles are not meant to decorate the flowers,
but to be worthy holders of their loveliness, to be
humble servitors as it were, reverent in their service,
like chivalrous knights. A. S. Levetus.
From the collection of lithographs sent by the
Senefelder Club to the Venice Exhibition the
Minister of Public Instruction has purchased for
the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome proofs by
Messrs. G. Spencer-Pryse, Charles Shannon, Joseph
Pennell, E. J. Sullivan, and Harry Becker.
majolica and are ornamented with
mosaics, the first being grey in tone with
a mosaic of gold on a white ground, the
other of biscuit white with mosaics of
delicate pastel blue and gold.
As has already been said, there is at
present no desire for over-decoration or
profusiveness of any kind in the use of
flowers for the ornamenting of the home
or of the dinner-table, and it is to be
hoped that the age of super-luxury will
never obtain here; a word of warning,
however, would not be out of place—
not for the artists, but for the layman,
and more particularly for the laywoman.
Of late there has been a growing ten-
dency to decorate (!) flowers with paper
frills and furbelows of glaring hue which
clash with Nature’s harmony and which
jar like a false note in music. It is as
though the florist would outdo Nature,
desecrate her, go one above her; the
result being the topping of plants and
blossoms beautifully formed, and clad
in lovely, delicious folds of rare mate-
rial, of exquisite tones and breathing the
MAJOLICA FLOWER-STAND WITH MOSAIC BORDER. DESIGNED AND
EXECUTED IN THE ATELIER OF J. BOCK
I90
MAJOLICA FLOWER-STAND WITH MOSAIC BORDER. DE-
SIGNED AND EXECUTED IN THE ATELIER OF J. BOCK
sweetest perfumes of heavenly grace, with the in-
sidious presence of loud-toned, loud-voiced vulgarity.
And when this abnormal intrusion of paper is placed
in an exquisite flower-pot the purchasers accept the
base with the same glee as they do the real; and it
is not otherwise with the fair recipients, who admire
the paper as much as the flowers. This effort to
decorate flowers, whose office pure and simple is to
decorate, can only be deplored. There was a time
when Vienna could vie with the world in the loveli-
ness of her floral decorations as executed by the
florists themselves, and when it was a pure delight
to gaze in their windows. Now one is obliged to
ask, Is the art lost ? The artists are ready and
willing to advise. The flower-stands or other re-
ceptacles are not meant to decorate the flowers,
but to be worthy holders of their loveliness, to be
humble servitors as it were, reverent in their service,
like chivalrous knights. A. S. Levetus.
From the collection of lithographs sent by the
Senefelder Club to the Venice Exhibition the
Minister of Public Instruction has purchased for
the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome proofs by
Messrs. G. Spencer-Pryse, Charles Shannon, Joseph
Pennell, E. J. Sullivan, and Harry Becker.
majolica and are ornamented with
mosaics, the first being grey in tone with
a mosaic of gold on a white ground, the
other of biscuit white with mosaics of
delicate pastel blue and gold.
As has already been said, there is at
present no desire for over-decoration or
profusiveness of any kind in the use of
flowers for the ornamenting of the home
or of the dinner-table, and it is to be
hoped that the age of super-luxury will
never obtain here; a word of warning,
however, would not be out of place—
not for the artists, but for the layman,
and more particularly for the laywoman.
Of late there has been a growing ten-
dency to decorate (!) flowers with paper
frills and furbelows of glaring hue which
clash with Nature’s harmony and which
jar like a false note in music. It is as
though the florist would outdo Nature,
desecrate her, go one above her; the
result being the topping of plants and
blossoms beautifully formed, and clad
in lovely, delicious folds of rare mate-
rial, of exquisite tones and breathing the
MAJOLICA FLOWER-STAND WITH MOSAIC BORDER. DESIGNED AND
EXECUTED IN THE ATELIER OF J. BOCK
I90