Studio: international art (5.1895)

Manchester Arts and Crafts

whose work we shall hope to see '^^^^^^^^^^ms^^^^^mj^^^MSI^:-
fully represented at some future
London exhibition.

The contributions of the Leek
Embroidery Society, as well as the
textiles shown by Thomas Wardle
of Leek, have been frequently re-
ferred to on other occasions. Yet
one altar cloth, by Gerald Hors-
ley, is an advance upon the pre-
vious work of the excellent society,
and the silks and velvets by the
famous Leek manufacturers,
whether seen at the Arts and
Crafts, at Stafford House, or at
Manchester, always provoke a new
sensation of pleasure, for their
superb colourings and luxurious

OAK SETTLE DESIGNED BY B. SCHWABE

textures, no less than for the fine designs of the

patterns upon them. The lock-plates and other

metal by James Smithies of Wilmslow, included

some most excellent work, among which the

fireplace (p. 138), with panels in hammered copper,

illustrating the story of Ulysses and the Sirens,

and the fender accompanying it, and a delightful

secretaire or cigar cabinet (p. 135), in blue stained

wood, with copper panels, all illustrated here,

were perhaps the most attractive. In the latter

the use of leaded opaque glass for the upper

doors, is a caprice that, de-

====—spite its popularity, is not
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in",-7""""—,": quite defensible ; leaded glass

— Vf/MwMw'' '1S on^7 beautiful by transmit-
Mfifi I ted light, therefore to employ
Mm/mKA ' lt for cupboard doors is always
II^MUmwMm an Affectation of doubtful
taste. An oak settle (above),
by B. Schwabe, a pupil of
Mr. Edgar Wood, has a very
pleasant domestic quality,
gained by quite simple means.
A fine sideboard, by S. J.
Waring & Sons of Manchester,
designed by A. Russell, had a
quaint conceit in its cob-
/// web-patterned hinges (p.
^pC^|§^ i37)that is worth note. The

V/^fyi W/y " Della " Robbia " Pottery,
vyXfrfflk tf^/r produced from the designs
A. of H. Rathbone, assisted

p J by Miss C. A. Walker, filled

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two cases, which proved to be

DRESSING-TABLE DESIGNED BY EDGAR WOOD WOrthy Of prolonged Study.

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DETAIL OF DRESSING-TABLE BY EDGAR WOOD