DOI Heft:
No. 7 (October, 1893)
DOI Artikel:Vallance, Aymer: The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society at the New Gallery, 1893
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0029
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1893
which hangs near by, and here colour belongs as hangings and utensils, that the text from which
0f right. the Arts and Crafts Society has to preach,
We must travel to the Gallery again to find ought primarily to be drawn. It is in precisely
another excellent example of relief decoration in this department unfortunately that praise must
colour, in the shape of Mr. A. Silver's panel for an perforce be negative rather than positive,
over-mantel (page 24), The Bays of Creation, Surely there is no single piece here displayed
executed in gesso and strikingly original in its whereat criticism can fling an adverse stone,
purely decorative conception. The reproduction but of an equal surety there is none whereon the
TWO VIEWS OF A STUDIO SEAT. DESIGNED BY L. ALMA-TADEMA, R.A.
fails, of course, to render the shimmering play of laurel wreath may be ungrudgingly laid. Perhaps
colour which forms not its least attraction. the nearest approach thereto is Mr. Tadema's
In furniture the Exhibition appears to me less beautiful Studio Seat, but even this, perfect as
noteworthily suggestive than I had hoped would are its proportions, and cunning as is its fashion-
be the case. It is in furniture surely as distinct ing, affects one with a subtle sense of unreality,
from decorative architectural features, or from almost of theatricalism. Mr. Blomfield's inlaid
!7
which hangs near by, and here colour belongs as hangings and utensils, that the text from which
0f right. the Arts and Crafts Society has to preach,
We must travel to the Gallery again to find ought primarily to be drawn. It is in precisely
another excellent example of relief decoration in this department unfortunately that praise must
colour, in the shape of Mr. A. Silver's panel for an perforce be negative rather than positive,
over-mantel (page 24), The Bays of Creation, Surely there is no single piece here displayed
executed in gesso and strikingly original in its whereat criticism can fling an adverse stone,
purely decorative conception. The reproduction but of an equal surety there is none whereon the
TWO VIEWS OF A STUDIO SEAT. DESIGNED BY L. ALMA-TADEMA, R.A.
fails, of course, to render the shimmering play of laurel wreath may be ungrudgingly laid. Perhaps
colour which forms not its least attraction. the nearest approach thereto is Mr. Tadema's
In furniture the Exhibition appears to me less beautiful Studio Seat, but even this, perfect as
noteworthily suggestive than I had hoped would are its proportions, and cunning as is its fashion-
be the case. It is in furniture surely as distinct ing, affects one with a subtle sense of unreality,
from decorative architectural features, or from almost of theatricalism. Mr. Blomfield's inlaid
!7