DOI Heft:
No. 34 (January, 1896)
DOI Artikel:S., E. B.: Afternoons in studios: a chat with Mr. George Frampton
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17295#0225
Interview with George Frampton, A.R.A.
knight, is apt to look isolated and uncomfortable tion towards sculpture. It is needless to say that
in any ordinary apartment where paper-hanging or the old idea of the dignity of the art being com-
a wall hung with pictures is behind it. In Mr. promised by attention to its adjuncts finds no
Frampton's own drawing-room the arrangement of favour with Mr. Frampton. He believes in dis-
playing a work of art so that
its good qualities do not
suffer by their surround-
ings, and shows a far higher
sense of its true dignity in
recognising that art en-
nobles all these trifles when
they are rightly used. It is
this peculiar combination of
masterly achievement in
sculpture and intense inte-
rest in applied decoration
which makes Mr. Frampton
so prominent in the new
revival of decorative art.
With so strong a recruit the
movement should achieve
more than even its ardent
disciples believed possible
a few years ago. For the
old sneer, that to be a suc-
cessful decorator it was only
essential to be unable to
draw, cannot be applied to
Mr. Frampton. Hence, as
you turn to the folding
screen that is in the centre
of the studio, waiting its
final touches, you do so
with much curiosity and
hope, and the result in no
way fails to sustain the faith
you have already given.
For the screen is a gor-
geous thing already, with
surfaces of splendid lustres.
In it one discovers gold,
aluminium, ivory, and pearl;
with quiet panels of stained
leather guileless of device,
or fiat surfaces of mother-of-
pearl, showing in vivid con-
" DANCING." A SILVER PANEL BY GEORGE FRAMPTON, A.R.A. "
trast the glitter of lacquered
(By permission of James Mann, Esq.) i u i i „
y v J J 'ii gesso, and the superb blue-
greens of enamels on solid
a simple piece of fabric with ribbons, hung on the silver. The many questions I asked Mr. Frampton
wall behind a bust of similar type, shows that the concerning this really sumptuous object would be
spirit of his idea may be achieved in far simpler tedious to set down, therefore it were best to sum-
ways. But both the permanent and the temporary marise his replies. The screen, as it first shaped
background thus secured are typical of his atten- itself in the full-sized working model, is at once
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knight, is apt to look isolated and uncomfortable tion towards sculpture. It is needless to say that
in any ordinary apartment where paper-hanging or the old idea of the dignity of the art being com-
a wall hung with pictures is behind it. In Mr. promised by attention to its adjuncts finds no
Frampton's own drawing-room the arrangement of favour with Mr. Frampton. He believes in dis-
playing a work of art so that
its good qualities do not
suffer by their surround-
ings, and shows a far higher
sense of its true dignity in
recognising that art en-
nobles all these trifles when
they are rightly used. It is
this peculiar combination of
masterly achievement in
sculpture and intense inte-
rest in applied decoration
which makes Mr. Frampton
so prominent in the new
revival of decorative art.
With so strong a recruit the
movement should achieve
more than even its ardent
disciples believed possible
a few years ago. For the
old sneer, that to be a suc-
cessful decorator it was only
essential to be unable to
draw, cannot be applied to
Mr. Frampton. Hence, as
you turn to the folding
screen that is in the centre
of the studio, waiting its
final touches, you do so
with much curiosity and
hope, and the result in no
way fails to sustain the faith
you have already given.
For the screen is a gor-
geous thing already, with
surfaces of splendid lustres.
In it one discovers gold,
aluminium, ivory, and pearl;
with quiet panels of stained
leather guileless of device,
or fiat surfaces of mother-of-
pearl, showing in vivid con-
" DANCING." A SILVER PANEL BY GEORGE FRAMPTON, A.R.A. "
trast the glitter of lacquered
(By permission of James Mann, Esq.) i u i i „
y v J J 'ii gesso, and the superb blue-
greens of enamels on solid
a simple piece of fabric with ribbons, hung on the silver. The many questions I asked Mr. Frampton
wall behind a bust of similar type, shows that the concerning this really sumptuous object would be
spirit of his idea may be achieved in far simpler tedious to set down, therefore it were best to sum-
ways. But both the permanent and the temporary marise his replies. The screen, as it first shaped
background thus secured are typical of his atten- itself in the full-sized working model, is at once
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