DOI Heft:
No. 6 (September, 1893)
DOI Artikel:An interview with Mr. Charles F. Annesley Voysey, architect and designer
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17188#0251
An Interview with Mr. C. F. A. Voysey
as 'all-over patterns.'" "In other words, you permit them to exist on this ground. If, however,
would have the limitations recognised exactly as the room be a well-proportioned one and the
when in stained glass an artist makes the lead lines furniture good, even if pictures are absent, the need
a prominent feature, instead of trying to ignore for wall-papers is not apparent on aesthetic grounds ;
their presence ? " " Yes, I think that a wall- but in such a case the frieze may be treated with
paper, even if more pleasing in an all-over pattern, a pattern either printed or stencilled, not too
is less disturbing when a more determined and engrossing, but yet sufficiently important. If sten-
simple expression of one or two ideas, unless of cilling be employed, I would insist on the import-
larger the pattern not felt; a real
b 1 "THE SEVEN SISTERS. PRINTED VELVET DESIGN (REPEAT I5A X l6) , _ '
you may put on BY c F_ A_ V0YSEY bird with his head
your walls.' There cut off is an un-
is no doubt that it is better to have large and pleasant sight, so is a rose that has lost half an
bold than small and timid patterns, both in inch of its petals ; but if the bird is a crude symbol
papers and printed or stencilled friezes. If you and his facsimile occurs complete within ten and a
wish to reduce the effect of its scale and force, half inches' distance, although one may have lost
these can be modified in the colouring. Do not a portion of his body, it does not violate my feelings,
think that I place wall-papers first. Wooden To go to Nature is, of course, to approach the
panelling, whether polished or hand-stained, is best fountain-head, but a literal transcript will not result
of all; next to that comes painted panelling, but as in good ornament; before a living plant a man
papers wear better than the plain wall, we must must'go through an elaborate process of selection
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as 'all-over patterns.'" "In other words, you permit them to exist on this ground. If, however,
would have the limitations recognised exactly as the room be a well-proportioned one and the
when in stained glass an artist makes the lead lines furniture good, even if pictures are absent, the need
a prominent feature, instead of trying to ignore for wall-papers is not apparent on aesthetic grounds ;
their presence ? " " Yes, I think that a wall- but in such a case the frieze may be treated with
paper, even if more pleasing in an all-over pattern, a pattern either printed or stencilled, not too
is less disturbing when a more determined and engrossing, but yet sufficiently important. If sten-
simple expression of one or two ideas, unless of cilling be employed, I would insist on the import-
larger the pattern not felt; a real
b 1 "THE SEVEN SISTERS. PRINTED VELVET DESIGN (REPEAT I5A X l6) , _ '
you may put on BY c F_ A_ V0YSEY bird with his head
your walls.' There cut off is an un-
is no doubt that it is better to have large and pleasant sight, so is a rose that has lost half an
bold than small and timid patterns, both in inch of its petals ; but if the bird is a crude symbol
papers and printed or stencilled friezes. If you and his facsimile occurs complete within ten and a
wish to reduce the effect of its scale and force, half inches' distance, although one may have lost
these can be modified in the colouring. Do not a portion of his body, it does not violate my feelings,
think that I place wall-papers first. Wooden To go to Nature is, of course, to approach the
panelling, whether polished or hand-stained, is best fountain-head, but a literal transcript will not result
of all; next to that comes painted panelling, but as in good ornament; before a living plant a man
papers wear better than the plain wall, we must must'go through an elaborate process of selection
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