Studio: international art (2.1894)

The Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1893

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sideboard (page 13) pleases by its very reticence, of dead and gone craftsmen. Finally, in more
and by the skill wherewith he has turned to advan- than one instance, and notably in that of the
tage the too academic suggestions of E. Sheraton cabinet (page 14) inlaid walnut, Mr. Lethaby
and Chippendale. Tho- has shown how even the rococo examples fur-
roughly honest it is, and nished us by the Dutch marquetry workers may be
yet in this case, as in some turned with due restraint to worthy and dignified
others near by, honesty purpose. Horace Townsend.

has not been read as sy- -

nonymous with brutality.

c . .., , . ■ i ■ i embroideries, textiles, and wall-papers.

So, too, with his inlaid ' '

cabinet (page 15), though Flat ornament at the Arts and Crafts Ex-

here as when in front hibition -is represented to a large extent by

of his sideboard one is textiles and wall-papers. I purpose to take the

tempted to ask whether embroderies and hand-weaving first, and then the

the art of the inlayer work executed or designed for execution by me-

should not concern itself, chanical processes of weaving or printing. Ex-

as its very genius would pecting to see original design only admitted to

lead one to suppose, with the Arts and Crafts, one is not a little surprised to

lines rather than with encounter a piece of embroidery taken from a

masses. Still Mr. Blom- well-known Persian pattern, and another closely

field's most satisfactory adapted from early sixteenth-century German

exhibit seems to me to linen damask. These two, however, may claim

be his Print Cabinet, to be intrinsically beautiful. But can the same

To a differing and more be said of certain reproductions of work of a later

original fancy does Mr. period, to wit, the large embroideries contributed

Voysey's Work Cabinet by Mrs. Newton, the Royal School of Art Needle-

(page 5) owe its being. work, and the Leek Embroidery Society? The

bracket for electric light.
by esther m. moore

Nor to Chippendale nor
to any bygone stylistic
suggestion is this simple,
well - proportioned piece
of furniture due, and yet
there is happily absent
from it any disturbing
note of eccentricity. It
is designed to meet its
needs; of useless orna-
ment there is none, and
yet it is sufficiently orna-
mental. At the opposite
end of the pole stands
Mr. Jack's chest, which
in more conventional
fashion relies upon its
carven richness for its
beauty, nor would it be
easy to find an example
of modern work which
has more truly and less

servilely caught the spirit piano in oak case, designed by w. f. cave, executed by c. bechstein

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