DOI Heft:
No. 54 (September, 1897)
DOI Artikel:White, Gleeson: Some Glasgow designers and their work, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0259
Some Glasgow Designers
brought his name prominently before the public : door, set in a wall unpierced by any windows,
indeed many people first became aware of their into a glazed eorridor, you find the arras-hanging
authorship from the book covers shown at the last here reproduced, a stencil of green and heliotrope
'4 Arts and Crafts," which set them in search after colour. Grotesques of "cats" form the motive,
other works of their designer. On the hall door, you are greeted by a panel with a
So far, the contributions to metal work and delightfully conventional "pussy," with the motto
interior decoration which Mr. Talwin Morris has Cave Felem below ; the door plate and other fittings,
produced have been chiefly expended on his own are variations of the same theme. In his working
home, which is the habitable portion of an old studio, the old panelling of the room has been
Scottish castle, on a rocky mound, far down the painted a low toned dark olive green, with devices
Clyde. The ruins of this castle still remain as a in a softened white, heightened here and there by
familiar landmark from the river ; behind them, half touches of emerald green, or of pure vermilion,
hidden, is a stone building with low rooms and The mantelpiece illustrated on page 231 will give an
windows set in walls of great thickness, a house idea of the character of the stencilled designs which
which lends itself to such decoration as Mr. Morris have all been executed by the artist himself, these
has applied. As you enter through an iron-studded stencilled patterns rarely being repeated and exhibit-
ing amazing faci-
lity in new com-
binations of a few
lines and purely
geometrical de-
vices. The
house contains
many examples
of the work of
other Glasgow
craftsmen.
A handle of
wrought copper
here illustrated
is one of many
in this room,
each entirely
unlike its fellows
in detail. Finger
plates in repousse
work to all the
doors—and the
room is practi-
cally lined with
doors—show the
same ingenious
treatment. With
the exception of
the cat motive,
which frequently
re-appears, the
rest are harmo-
nious combina-
tions of simple
forms, wherein
vertical lines
play a leading
COPPER FITTINGS TO A HALL DOOR BY TALWIN MORRIS ]t [g jjjjg.
232
brought his name prominently before the public : door, set in a wall unpierced by any windows,
indeed many people first became aware of their into a glazed eorridor, you find the arras-hanging
authorship from the book covers shown at the last here reproduced, a stencil of green and heliotrope
'4 Arts and Crafts," which set them in search after colour. Grotesques of "cats" form the motive,
other works of their designer. On the hall door, you are greeted by a panel with a
So far, the contributions to metal work and delightfully conventional "pussy," with the motto
interior decoration which Mr. Talwin Morris has Cave Felem below ; the door plate and other fittings,
produced have been chiefly expended on his own are variations of the same theme. In his working
home, which is the habitable portion of an old studio, the old panelling of the room has been
Scottish castle, on a rocky mound, far down the painted a low toned dark olive green, with devices
Clyde. The ruins of this castle still remain as a in a softened white, heightened here and there by
familiar landmark from the river ; behind them, half touches of emerald green, or of pure vermilion,
hidden, is a stone building with low rooms and The mantelpiece illustrated on page 231 will give an
windows set in walls of great thickness, a house idea of the character of the stencilled designs which
which lends itself to such decoration as Mr. Morris have all been executed by the artist himself, these
has applied. As you enter through an iron-studded stencilled patterns rarely being repeated and exhibit-
ing amazing faci-
lity in new com-
binations of a few
lines and purely
geometrical de-
vices. The
house contains
many examples
of the work of
other Glasgow
craftsmen.
A handle of
wrought copper
here illustrated
is one of many
in this room,
each entirely
unlike its fellows
in detail. Finger
plates in repousse
work to all the
doors—and the
room is practi-
cally lined with
doors—show the
same ingenious
treatment. With
the exception of
the cat motive,
which frequently
re-appears, the
rest are harmo-
nious combina-
tions of simple
forms, wherein
vertical lines
play a leading
COPPER FITTINGS TO A HALL DOOR BY TALWIN MORRIS ]t [g jjjjg.
232