DOI Heft:
No. 64 (July, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21969#0153
Studio-Talk
almost a thing of the past. The metal work of
Mrs. Waterhouse’s Yattendon class, and of the
Keswick branch, the admirable embroideries of
Mr. Godfrey Blount’s section, the furniture of the
Hon. Mabel de Grey, the terra-cottas after designs
by Mrs. G. F. Watts, and many another section,
show consistent development full of promise.
Lace-work also showed progress, and even wood-
carving, in a few isolated instances, showed new
vitality of design as well as good handicraft.
The amateur element which trusts to bad orna-
ment to hide worse construction is growing less
and less prominent year by year, and there is
evidence that the true mission of the society is
being gradually hut surely developed if it has not
yet been wholly fulfilled.
In leather work the really fine designs by Miss
Annie Baker, executed by the Porloch Weir
branch, were notably good, and would hold their
own at a far more important exhibition. The
Leighton Buzzard leather work, mostly from de-
signs by Miss Barrett and Miss Alice Shepherd,
maintained its usual level of excellence; from New-
ton, Cambs, came a cleverly designed lamp-screen
in copper, having playing cards for its motive; the
Southwold wood-carving, Mr. Harold Rathbone’s
“ Della Robbia ” ware, and many other classes of
work, which we have learned to expect annually,
were all slightly better than in previous years.
The beautiful inlaid-work, carried out under the
Hon. Mabel de Grey’s direction from her own
designs, still remained the most vitally interesting
exhibit in the Gallery. When the conditions under
which it is produced are considered, it is impossible
not to be impressed anew by the artistry that a
clever designer has developed in her pupils. The
Association still retains the sympathy of The
Studio to a marked degree as one of the most
important factors for practical artistic education
among the classes not able to avail themselves of
technical education at the various institutes and
art schools of our large centres.
INLAID SETTLE
DESIGNED BY THE HON. MRS. CARPENTER
INLAID BY ARTHUR TOYER
Bolt on-on-Swale Class
130
almost a thing of the past. The metal work of
Mrs. Waterhouse’s Yattendon class, and of the
Keswick branch, the admirable embroideries of
Mr. Godfrey Blount’s section, the furniture of the
Hon. Mabel de Grey, the terra-cottas after designs
by Mrs. G. F. Watts, and many another section,
show consistent development full of promise.
Lace-work also showed progress, and even wood-
carving, in a few isolated instances, showed new
vitality of design as well as good handicraft.
The amateur element which trusts to bad orna-
ment to hide worse construction is growing less
and less prominent year by year, and there is
evidence that the true mission of the society is
being gradually hut surely developed if it has not
yet been wholly fulfilled.
In leather work the really fine designs by Miss
Annie Baker, executed by the Porloch Weir
branch, were notably good, and would hold their
own at a far more important exhibition. The
Leighton Buzzard leather work, mostly from de-
signs by Miss Barrett and Miss Alice Shepherd,
maintained its usual level of excellence; from New-
ton, Cambs, came a cleverly designed lamp-screen
in copper, having playing cards for its motive; the
Southwold wood-carving, Mr. Harold Rathbone’s
“ Della Robbia ” ware, and many other classes of
work, which we have learned to expect annually,
were all slightly better than in previous years.
The beautiful inlaid-work, carried out under the
Hon. Mabel de Grey’s direction from her own
designs, still remained the most vitally interesting
exhibit in the Gallery. When the conditions under
which it is produced are considered, it is impossible
not to be impressed anew by the artistry that a
clever designer has developed in her pupils. The
Association still retains the sympathy of The
Studio to a marked degree as one of the most
important factors for practical artistic education
among the classes not able to avail themselves of
technical education at the various institutes and
art schools of our large centres.
INLAID SETTLE
DESIGNED BY THE HON. MRS. CARPENTER
INLAID BY ARTHUR TOYER
Bolt on-on-Swale Class
130