DOI issue:
No. 14 (May, 1894)
DOI article:From gallery, studio, and mart, with illustrations, [2]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17190#0075
From Gallery, Studio, and Mart
duction of Mr. Beardsley's poster. The small It is one of our amiable characteristics that we
version is emphatically to be preferred to the large, delight in reviling the decorative ideals of our
and the discreet will doubtless put it in the port- immediate ancestors. The early Victorian room is
folio instead of the waste-paper basket. Like the always considered the appropriate subject for con-
play it was invented to advertise, it is at least temptuous mirth. If, however, we may judge from
tremendously modern. Those temples of the end the present state of the upholsterers and paper-
of the century, the music-halls,
are still content with a debauch
of colour-printing.
It must be the experience of
many that it is extremely diffi-
cult to purchase a dinner service
at a moderate price, which shall
not be a constant offence to the
eye on account of its crude
floral decorations or the banality
of its geometrical pattern. Many
have set out bent on acquiring
something daintily fantastic,
and, after a weary day's search,
have had to content themselves
with the unadorned simplicity
of plain white or white and
gold. Perhaps few know that
if they content themselves with
a moderate degree of ornate-
ness their desire can be very
easily gratified. They can de-
sign a monogram for them-
selves. The die will only cost
half a guinea or thereabouts,
and the printing in colour over
the glaze about threepence on
each article. A coat-of-arms in
one colour costs a trifle more.
But it may be felt that the
monogram savours too much of
the ego, and that the coat-of-
arms is pretentious. In that
case a badge, simple and yet
decorative, may be devised by
the ingenious to break the
monotony of the white surface,
and this will cost very little "souvenir op Scarborough" b* w. rothenste.n
, , (Exhibited at the New English Art Club)
extra. Of course a large and
elaborate pattern would run away with a ten-pound hangers' windows, we are rapidly returning to that
note or more, as it would have to be adapted to which we have so long been pleased to despise and
the different things in the service according to reject. The sober melancholy of dull greens and
their size and shape. If gold be preferred to faded yellows has given way to a riot of gay pinks
colour, the expense is about the proportion of a and blues. And the glistening chintz is abroad in
shilling instead of threepence. Designs added in alarming quantities in the Tottenham Court Road,
this way at the instance of the purchaser are quite The thing may not end here. We may be collect-
permanent, ing wax fruit under bell-jars in a season or two. It
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duction of Mr. Beardsley's poster. The small It is one of our amiable characteristics that we
version is emphatically to be preferred to the large, delight in reviling the decorative ideals of our
and the discreet will doubtless put it in the port- immediate ancestors. The early Victorian room is
folio instead of the waste-paper basket. Like the always considered the appropriate subject for con-
play it was invented to advertise, it is at least temptuous mirth. If, however, we may judge from
tremendously modern. Those temples of the end the present state of the upholsterers and paper-
of the century, the music-halls,
are still content with a debauch
of colour-printing.
It must be the experience of
many that it is extremely diffi-
cult to purchase a dinner service
at a moderate price, which shall
not be a constant offence to the
eye on account of its crude
floral decorations or the banality
of its geometrical pattern. Many
have set out bent on acquiring
something daintily fantastic,
and, after a weary day's search,
have had to content themselves
with the unadorned simplicity
of plain white or white and
gold. Perhaps few know that
if they content themselves with
a moderate degree of ornate-
ness their desire can be very
easily gratified. They can de-
sign a monogram for them-
selves. The die will only cost
half a guinea or thereabouts,
and the printing in colour over
the glaze about threepence on
each article. A coat-of-arms in
one colour costs a trifle more.
But it may be felt that the
monogram savours too much of
the ego, and that the coat-of-
arms is pretentious. In that
case a badge, simple and yet
decorative, may be devised by
the ingenious to break the
monotony of the white surface,
and this will cost very little "souvenir op Scarborough" b* w. rothenste.n
, , (Exhibited at the New English Art Club)
extra. Of course a large and
elaborate pattern would run away with a ten-pound hangers' windows, we are rapidly returning to that
note or more, as it would have to be adapted to which we have so long been pleased to despise and
the different things in the service according to reject. The sober melancholy of dull greens and
their size and shape. If gold be preferred to faded yellows has given way to a riot of gay pinks
colour, the expense is about the proportion of a and blues. And the glistening chintz is abroad in
shilling instead of threepence. Designs added in alarming quantities in the Tottenham Court Road,
this way at the instance of the purchaser are quite The thing may not end here. We may be collect-
permanent, ing wax fruit under bell-jars in a season or two. It
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