Studio: international art (9.1897)

The Arts and Crafts

of regret that more were not
included in the New Gallery
Exhibition. The bedstead
here illustrated suffered by
being shown without the ordi-
nary fittings. The footboard
was placed almost close to
the head, so that the whole
effect was lost. It is a good
example of a highly en-
riched object, which never-
theless retains a simple
effect by its reticent use of
colour and its quiet re-
strained proportions. The
metallic discs do not tell
out unduly, and the inlaid
work is even less notice-
able than it appears in the
reproduction here. Its dis-
tinct severity of form invites
comparison with another
bedstead shown in the Paris
Salon this year, and despite

ACACIA WOOD CHEST DESIGNED AND EXECUTED F.V MRS. WILL INGHAM RAWNSLE V

the exquisite low-relief carv-
ing of the French example,
you feel that this is infinitely
more satisfactory, because its
lines suggest repose.

A fine design for stained
glass, Apollo and the Muses
(page 280), was so effective in
colour, that the reproduction
here fails to convey half its
charm, whichis distinctly note-
worthy ; other designs for a
Catalogue Cover, a Booh Cover
and an Illustration to the
Tempest, were four contribu-
tions by G. Woolliscroft Rhead
to the recent Exhibition. As
one of these—the Illustration
to the Tempest—is repro-
duced on page 282, it would
be needless to describe it, for
in this case the reproduction is
the thing itself and not a para-
phrase. Mr. Rhead has de-
voted so much energy of late
to the reproduction of other
artists' work, that it may be his
own powers of design are in
danger of being overlooked.

BEDSTEAD. DESIGNED BY EDGAR WOOD. EXECUTED BY MESSRS. PEARSON AND BROWN

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