DOI Heft:
No. 52 (July, 1897)
DOI Artikel:White, Gleeson: Some Glasgow designers and their work, [1]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0113
Some Glasgow Designers
the interest which is usually limited to painted
decoration, inasmuch as it avoids the formal repeti-
f | tion of the ordinary stencil designs. In very few of
. - ' .....^^i. them, if any, is " graduated wash " j the various
^jBfcM^^^ portions of the stencil are painted with different
"-*>^w !l iii<r " • j4h colours, but each, if memory serves, is put on in a
Hto^HNHI tfflRHHflHBflB ^""^lIB ^at ungraduated coat. Hut here, as in the hack
IHflB^XI HH^E& 0$ml ground, the texture of the plaster breaks the colour
IhBB :ff JB^-" tW^Mt^^mi la into a sparkling living surface, in place of dull paint.
^sl^B^^^^^^HkSKflH^^BflHSH which on smooth plaster is so uninteresting. The
?S«HiM^Bb^^H|Bl|Hj&MlHyilS3i smoking-room calls for no special comment, as the
illustration (p. 94). with the description of the other
^^^^jg 00$$* 1 rooms, will give a fair idea of its effect. Mr. Mackin-
tosh has not shunned positive pigments, but when
jewel casket by c. r. mackintosh his colours are vivid they are used in small, jewel-
like spots, so that the whole aspect of each wall is
procession round the walls might have been mono- cool, and forms an excellent background,
tonous, but grouped as they are, a very decorative It is just because the means employed for these
result is obtained. If memory is trustworthy, a decorations are so simple compared with the result
sketch of one of these
figures was shown in the
balcony of the 1896 Arts
and Crafts Exhibition.
Interspersed among
these are conventionalised
trees, and a suggestion of
a flower-studded meadow
is preserved in the low
dado which runs round
the base above the actual
pannelled wainscot of the
room in which they ap-
pear. In the Luncheon
Room decoration, peacocks
appear as the chief feature
of the design, and applied
to the projecting portions
of the walls between these
is a formal row of trees.
These same trees, as the
illustration shows (p. 93),
although they occupy much
the same space, are not
absolutely replicas. Some np; I
half-dozen varieties lend in-
terest to the detail and yet «
conform generally to the • <gflf*
symmetry which a repeated Ifll' 9
pattern demands. The in-
genious variations of detail,
secured with no restless *' *?
sense of change, is a feature ',
of Mr. Mackintosh's work.
Thus it gains no little of linen press
96
by charles r. mackintosh
the interest which is usually limited to painted
decoration, inasmuch as it avoids the formal repeti-
f | tion of the ordinary stencil designs. In very few of
. - ' .....^^i. them, if any, is " graduated wash " j the various
^jBfcM^^^ portions of the stencil are painted with different
"-*>^w !l iii<r " • j4h colours, but each, if memory serves, is put on in a
Hto^HNHI tfflRHHflHBflB ^""^lIB ^at ungraduated coat. Hut here, as in the hack
IHflB^XI HH^E& 0$ml ground, the texture of the plaster breaks the colour
IhBB :ff JB^-" tW^Mt^^mi la into a sparkling living surface, in place of dull paint.
^sl^B^^^^^^HkSKflH^^BflHSH which on smooth plaster is so uninteresting. The
?S«HiM^Bb^^H|Bl|Hj&MlHyilS3i smoking-room calls for no special comment, as the
illustration (p. 94). with the description of the other
^^^^jg 00$$* 1 rooms, will give a fair idea of its effect. Mr. Mackin-
tosh has not shunned positive pigments, but when
jewel casket by c. r. mackintosh his colours are vivid they are used in small, jewel-
like spots, so that the whole aspect of each wall is
procession round the walls might have been mono- cool, and forms an excellent background,
tonous, but grouped as they are, a very decorative It is just because the means employed for these
result is obtained. If memory is trustworthy, a decorations are so simple compared with the result
sketch of one of these
figures was shown in the
balcony of the 1896 Arts
and Crafts Exhibition.
Interspersed among
these are conventionalised
trees, and a suggestion of
a flower-studded meadow
is preserved in the low
dado which runs round
the base above the actual
pannelled wainscot of the
room in which they ap-
pear. In the Luncheon
Room decoration, peacocks
appear as the chief feature
of the design, and applied
to the projecting portions
of the walls between these
is a formal row of trees.
These same trees, as the
illustration shows (p. 93),
although they occupy much
the same space, are not
absolutely replicas. Some np; I
half-dozen varieties lend in-
terest to the detail and yet «
conform generally to the • <gflf*
symmetry which a repeated Ifll' 9
pattern demands. The in-
genious variations of detail,
secured with no restless *' *?
sense of change, is a feature ',
of Mr. Mackintosh's work.
Thus it gains no little of linen press
96
by charles r. mackintosh