DOI issue:
No. 7 (October, 1893)
DOI article:Vallance, Aymer: The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society at the New Gallery, 1893
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0026
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1893
glass bowl by Eleanor C. Warre (p. 23), is time at my disposal I can hardly notice even so
extremely good ; and a gesso box by J. P. Cooper much, and must omit, the stained glass cartoons
must not be overlooked. The various pieces of which figure so largely this year,
pottery in this room demand more than a brief For architectural studies' pure and simple in
notice, and must be returned to
later.
The South Gallery is given up
to the printed book, its illustra-
tion, and binding. But as in a
future number of The Studio
the art of the modern book is to
occupy much space, it can only
be touchsd in passing now.
Leaving the Gallery, the first
impression still remains : it is a
well-arranged display of good
work, and one can easily believe
that the selection here was made with no little the fashion either of drawings and designs, or
care, and with an effort to realise the ideal of the even of views photographic or other of corn-
Society. G. pleted work, one must look otherwhere than in
the Arts and Crafts Exhibition. Searching my
architecture and furniture. memory, I can recall but two examples which
Although architecture is sparsely represented at bespeak the architect as an artist in building
the New Gallery, and furniture appears in smaller rather than in mere decoration or furnishing,
number than one had hoped—yet in the space and One of these, however, is worth a roomful of
INLAID WALNUT CABINET. DESIGNED BY W.
EXECUTED BY A. THORN
INLAID SIDEBOARD. DESIGNED BY REGINALD BLOMFIELD, EXECUTED BY G. A. MASON
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glass bowl by Eleanor C. Warre (p. 23), is time at my disposal I can hardly notice even so
extremely good ; and a gesso box by J. P. Cooper much, and must omit, the stained glass cartoons
must not be overlooked. The various pieces of which figure so largely this year,
pottery in this room demand more than a brief For architectural studies' pure and simple in
notice, and must be returned to
later.
The South Gallery is given up
to the printed book, its illustra-
tion, and binding. But as in a
future number of The Studio
the art of the modern book is to
occupy much space, it can only
be touchsd in passing now.
Leaving the Gallery, the first
impression still remains : it is a
well-arranged display of good
work, and one can easily believe
that the selection here was made with no little the fashion either of drawings and designs, or
care, and with an effort to realise the ideal of the even of views photographic or other of corn-
Society. G. pleted work, one must look otherwhere than in
the Arts and Crafts Exhibition. Searching my
architecture and furniture. memory, I can recall but two examples which
Although architecture is sparsely represented at bespeak the architect as an artist in building
the New Gallery, and furniture appears in smaller rather than in mere decoration or furnishing,
number than one had hoped—yet in the space and One of these, however, is worth a roomful of
INLAID WALNUT CABINET. DESIGNED BY W.
EXECUTED BY A. THORN
INLAID SIDEBOARD. DESIGNED BY REGINALD BLOMFIELD, EXECUTED BY G. A. MASON
14