DOI Heft:
No. 38 (May, 1896)
DOI Artikel:S., E. B.: Some recent designs by Mr. C. F. A. Voysey
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0227
Some Recent Designs by Mr. Voysey
lustrous and fine than any
wall-paper which we can
call to mind for comparison.
For certain rooms nothing
could be more sumptuous
than this "peacock" har-
mony, and yet, strong and
full as it is, it would keep its
rightly subordinate place as
a background.
Another pattern, Fairy -
land, is even less adequately
represented in black and
white, which in this case
confuses the detail and
disturbs the repose of the
pattern as it appears in
colour. In this the fes-
toons (which are really
flights of birds) impart
distinct sense of " style " to
the work, and the most rigid
purist would hardly object
to the introduction of
animal life could he but
see a room hung with it.
In yet another pattern (as
yet unpublished) deer and design for wall-paper The Snake by c. f. a. voysey
swans are introduced naively
and simply. Doubtless
this would also be equally effective when hung and in a sufficiently large number of repeats to lose
the sense of the details
in the larger pattern
which Mr. Voysey had in
mind.
One more repeating de-
sign, The Snake (repro-
duced above), dates from an
earlier period. In it not
only have we a most beauti-
ful arrangement of lines,
the subtle curves of the
foliage contrasting with the
more accentuated flexure
of the snake-forms, but a
no less exquisite arrange-
ment of colours—one that
could hardly be put in
words, for descriptions of
tints convey very little. It
would be almost as easy to
describe the flavour of a
piquant entree, or the odour
design for chintz from the original drawing by c. f. a. voysey of 2l mixed bouquet Of
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lustrous and fine than any
wall-paper which we can
call to mind for comparison.
For certain rooms nothing
could be more sumptuous
than this "peacock" har-
mony, and yet, strong and
full as it is, it would keep its
rightly subordinate place as
a background.
Another pattern, Fairy -
land, is even less adequately
represented in black and
white, which in this case
confuses the detail and
disturbs the repose of the
pattern as it appears in
colour. In this the fes-
toons (which are really
flights of birds) impart
distinct sense of " style " to
the work, and the most rigid
purist would hardly object
to the introduction of
animal life could he but
see a room hung with it.
In yet another pattern (as
yet unpublished) deer and design for wall-paper The Snake by c. f. a. voysey
swans are introduced naively
and simply. Doubtless
this would also be equally effective when hung and in a sufficiently large number of repeats to lose
the sense of the details
in the larger pattern
which Mr. Voysey had in
mind.
One more repeating de-
sign, The Snake (repro-
duced above), dates from an
earlier period. In it not
only have we a most beauti-
ful arrangement of lines,
the subtle curves of the
foliage contrasting with the
more accentuated flexure
of the snake-forms, but a
no less exquisite arrange-
ment of colours—one that
could hardly be put in
words, for descriptions of
tints convey very little. It
would be almost as easy to
describe the flavour of a
piquant entree, or the odour
design for chintz from the original drawing by c. f. a. voysey of 2l mixed bouquet Of
212