Studio: international art (3.1894)

From Gallery, Studio, and Mart

The new patterns of Essex & Co. show, as in unsightly effect of a figure bent to fit an angle of
past seasons, many really artistic wall-papers at the wall, and imparts generally a sense of airiness
moderate prices, which it would be hard to beat.
Mr. Voysey is represented by several designs,
chiefly in his less severe mood. The tendency to
employ huge floral forms is marked, but not abso-
lutely paramount, as one design, the Bushey, we
are permitted to reproduce, bears witness. If big

flowers must be

had, the other
illustration
shows that they
can be power-
fully drawn and
pleasantly
grouped. At

the present "a sea shell" j. a. simpson

moment, when

public taste and space when the figures are thus used in de-
seems bent on tached groups in place of a monotonous row.
outraging its -

record, by re- A very graceful bronze panel, A Sea Shell, by
turning to bad J- A. Simpson, now in the New Gallery, is a proof
ornament after of the promise displayed in various works ex-
knowledge of hibited by the artist in the Weatherley Club con-
good, the action tributions to a show at the Suffolk Street Galleries,
of those manu- which we commended highly at the time,
facturers who --

' the elaine wall-paper

risk loss : by There are some appli-
issuing a reason- ances so simple and so
able proportion obvious that it is hard to
of consistent realise they are novel; an
and suitable easel, lately patented by
patterns de- Mr. G. Brain, is an ex-
serves special ample of this class of in-
commendation. vention. Differing but
slightly in appearance
The Dryad from the ordinary easel,
frieze, on page a slip of wood arranged
70, is a regis- to work on a thumb-screw
tered design of grips the top of the
a stencil issued stretcher and drawing
as a paper-hang- boards, so that the whole
ing by Essex & easel may be moved with
Co. A special no fear of an upset. It
feature in its folds up into a most corn-
present form is pact and portable shape,

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that the figures the added rod being
have been so arranged that they can be hung, snugly tucked away in a
either in a continuous procession, or if the re- hollow provided in the
quired space is cut into by doors or windows, centre' leg. The inventor
the plain ground of the frieze may be carried on calls it the only perfect
bounded by simple borders above and below, not folding easel in the mar-
shown in the sketch. This plan avoids the very ket; without disrespect to "the bushey" wall-pape
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