DOI Heft:
No. 29 (August, 1895)
DOI Artikel:The Home Arts and Industries Association, at the Albert Hall
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17294#0191
Home Arts and Industries at the Albert Hall
some of the cloth and paper volumes were credit- really splendid work devoted to an atrocious
ably executed. The charm of form devoid of design ; to be fair in judging this must have been
ornamental detail was apparent in a delightful difficult, for the sweep of the lines, the spirit of the
back of beaten silver (or white
metal). The Yattendon copper
has been already praised, and
much other metal-work deserves
notice, but owing to the absence
of readable labels (all informa-
tion being on tickets attached
to the articles, and not quite
within reach of a visitor), it
must be left without detailed
comment.
In pottery, the very excellent
'.' Delia Robbia " ware of Harold
Rathbone (illustrated in the
article on the Manchester Arts
and Crafts) made a fine show,
and attracted deserved popu- medicine cupboard. designed by benton fletciier. Batikside Sattlnvark
larity. Another batch of ware,
some good, but some rather commercial in forms was so well kept that you could not but
style, from Abbotts Kerswell, included a quantity praise, yet the shape and detail of the ornament
in cream and pale blue that was decorative and was absolutely unworthy of the craft expended,
pleasant. Examples of misapplied craft were not An easel is a foolish thing for a home, it occupies
a few. Particularly a carved easel, which showed an undue amount of floor space to support a single
l^^5^ H-P.Ciijfbrcl
inlaid carved settle. designed by mrs. carpenter. carved by edmond fawell. inlaid by
herbert hurwood. BoUoil-On-SwaU
I 72
some of the cloth and paper volumes were credit- really splendid work devoted to an atrocious
ably executed. The charm of form devoid of design ; to be fair in judging this must have been
ornamental detail was apparent in a delightful difficult, for the sweep of the lines, the spirit of the
back of beaten silver (or white
metal). The Yattendon copper
has been already praised, and
much other metal-work deserves
notice, but owing to the absence
of readable labels (all informa-
tion being on tickets attached
to the articles, and not quite
within reach of a visitor), it
must be left without detailed
comment.
In pottery, the very excellent
'.' Delia Robbia " ware of Harold
Rathbone (illustrated in the
article on the Manchester Arts
and Crafts) made a fine show,
and attracted deserved popu- medicine cupboard. designed by benton fletciier. Batikside Sattlnvark
larity. Another batch of ware,
some good, but some rather commercial in forms was so well kept that you could not but
style, from Abbotts Kerswell, included a quantity praise, yet the shape and detail of the ornament
in cream and pale blue that was decorative and was absolutely unworthy of the craft expended,
pleasant. Examples of misapplied craft were not An easel is a foolish thing for a home, it occupies
a few. Particularly a carved easel, which showed an undue amount of floor space to support a single
l^^5^ H-P.Ciijfbrcl
inlaid carved settle. designed by mrs. carpenter. carved by edmond fawell. inlaid by
herbert hurwood. BoUoil-On-SwaU
I 72