DOI Heft:
Nr. 236 (October, 1916)
DOI Artikel:Studio-Talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43462#0348
Studio-Talk
The designs and models for war memorials
exhibited during the latter half of July at the
galleries of the Royal Institute of British Archi-
tects as the result of the series of competitions
organised by the Civic Arts Association were on
the whole very disappointing. There were eight
classes in these competitions, with prizes in books
and money ranging from to ^50, the average
amounting to a little over ^10, a sum hardly likely
to attract first-rate talent, especially as in the case
of these competitions the artists were expected to
relinquish all rights in any designs to which prizes
were awarded. It is not surprising under these
circumstances that the response was so poor, but
it is surprising that the jury should have given
their approval to a set of designs which only in
very few cases could be said to reach more than
a mediocre standard, and even in those cases were
open to objection as inappropriate to the purpose
specified. And seeing that most of our rising
on frequent occasions ; and lastly a view of the
interior of the Church of St. Mary, Primrose Hill
(Rev. Dr. Dearmer), showing a rood-beam and
figures lately erected therein from the designs of
Mr. Gilbert Bayes, as a memorial to the late
Mr. Thomas R. Way, to whose judgment and
experience as a lithographic artist and printer the
readers of this magazine owe those remarkably
faithful reproductions of Whistler’s pastels- which
are now so eagerly sought after by collectors.
We include among our
illustrations this month a
reproduction of a memorial
tablet in bronze with enamel
enrichment, recently exe-
cuted by the Dryad Works at
Leicester, a firm which, long
noted for its cane furniture,
has during the last few years
added high-class metal-work
to the scope of its activities;
two examples of ecclesias-
tical metal-work from the
Artificers’ Guild of London,
whose productions we have
had the pleasure of bringing
to the notice of our readers
238
CHALICE IN SILVER AND PRECIOUS STONES
WITH ENAMELS BY CECILIA ADAMS.
MADE BY CHARLES MOXEY AND F. JOBE,
designed by Edward spencer (Artificers'1 Guild)
SILVER-GILT PYX. DESIGNED BY EDWARD SPENCER.
MADE BY CHARLES MOXEY; PANELS BY J. BONNER (Artificers' Guild)
The designs and models for war memorials
exhibited during the latter half of July at the
galleries of the Royal Institute of British Archi-
tects as the result of the series of competitions
organised by the Civic Arts Association were on
the whole very disappointing. There were eight
classes in these competitions, with prizes in books
and money ranging from to ^50, the average
amounting to a little over ^10, a sum hardly likely
to attract first-rate talent, especially as in the case
of these competitions the artists were expected to
relinquish all rights in any designs to which prizes
were awarded. It is not surprising under these
circumstances that the response was so poor, but
it is surprising that the jury should have given
their approval to a set of designs which only in
very few cases could be said to reach more than
a mediocre standard, and even in those cases were
open to objection as inappropriate to the purpose
specified. And seeing that most of our rising
on frequent occasions ; and lastly a view of the
interior of the Church of St. Mary, Primrose Hill
(Rev. Dr. Dearmer), showing a rood-beam and
figures lately erected therein from the designs of
Mr. Gilbert Bayes, as a memorial to the late
Mr. Thomas R. Way, to whose judgment and
experience as a lithographic artist and printer the
readers of this magazine owe those remarkably
faithful reproductions of Whistler’s pastels- which
are now so eagerly sought after by collectors.
We include among our
illustrations this month a
reproduction of a memorial
tablet in bronze with enamel
enrichment, recently exe-
cuted by the Dryad Works at
Leicester, a firm which, long
noted for its cane furniture,
has during the last few years
added high-class metal-work
to the scope of its activities;
two examples of ecclesias-
tical metal-work from the
Artificers’ Guild of London,
whose productions we have
had the pleasure of bringing
to the notice of our readers
238
CHALICE IN SILVER AND PRECIOUS STONES
WITH ENAMELS BY CECILIA ADAMS.
MADE BY CHARLES MOXEY AND F. JOBE,
designed by Edward spencer (Artificers'1 Guild)
SILVER-GILT PYX. DESIGNED BY EDWARD SPENCER.
MADE BY CHARLES MOXEY; PANELS BY J. BONNER (Artificers' Guild)