International studio (55.1915)

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hand-carved legs. Around the walls are hung ac-
coutrements and other articles reminiscent of the
battlefield and the chase, as well as a number of rare
paintings ; whilst from the oak ceiling-beams are
suspended models of fighting and merchant ships.
The Club also has a room specially dedicated to
Carlyle and containing numerous relics of the


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BY C. F. A. VOYSEY

great writer. Messrs. Waring and Gillow carried
out the remodelling and decoration of the Club.
The Pastel Society is to be congratulated on its
decision to hold an exhibition this year. As
usual the works were shown at the Royal Institute.
The exhibition could not be considered as fully
representative or as varied as usual, but it took no
inferior rank to preceding ones in the standard
attained. It was the Society’s sixteenth exhibition
and as such it has been held in a most auspicious
year; of all mediums of expression that of pastel
perhaps retains the most associations of circum-
stances elegant and humdrum secured by un-
threatened peace.

The pages of this magazine have at various times
borne testimony to the versatile talent of Mr. Charles
F. A. Voysey. So many and varied are the forms
in which his decorative genius has expressed itself


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that a bare enumeration of them would fill a con-
siderable space. It is not surprising, therefore,
that he should have bestowed his attention upon a
class of design which, if lying outside the broad
ambit of his practice as an architect, is yet one
calling for the play of the decorative faculty which he
possesses in such a marked degree. In the half-
dozen book-plates which we here reproduce from
among a number he has designed from time to time
this faculty is well manifested in combination with