DOI Heft:
Nr. 78 (Septembre 1899)
DOI Artikel:Wood, Esther: The national competition at South Kensington, 1899
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0296
The National Competition
PANEL FOR A PIANO-FRONT
BY GEORGE c. duxbdry (South Kensington)
DESIGN FOR A PIANO-FRONT BY GEORGE C. DUXBURY
as shown in the drawing, are decorated with carving
in intaglio and low-relief.
An ordinary wooden settle for the fireside, by
John M. Aiken, of South Kensington, is carefully
and sympathetically designed, and the carved deco-
ration is pleasing and appropriate. A silver medal
is awarded to George C. Duxbury, South Kensing-
ton, for his design for a piano-front, which for
broad and poetic treatment represents the best
qualities of modern furniture.
One of the most original conceptions in table
furniture is the design for a small portable book-
case in sycamore wood stained green and polished,
with the ends ornamented in coloured gesso. This
is by Lily Day, of Norwich, and offers one of the
very few suggestions of students for the use of
262
gesso in panelling and in
association with wood.
The end panels for this
work have a design of Una
and the Lion. The work-
ing drawings are beautifully
finished in colour, and the
whole effect is—as it should
be—to make us wish to
see them carried out in
materials, and with the
same perfect workmanship
bestowed on them as in the
preliminary stages.
The designs for pottery
are few in number and do
not rise to a very high
level. The exceptions to
this verdict are the exhibits
of Isaac W. Taylor, of
Wakefield, whose plates
are sparingly and choicely
bordered with conventional design, and of Richard
C. Riseley, Macclesfield, who also shows an excel-
lent plate and some dado tiles. From the Mac-
clesfield school we have in addition John W.
Sherratt’s good designs for tiles.
The work in black-and-white design and book
illustration is generally poor, and certainly below
the average of work now being done in the London
technical schools, especially where the students are
brought into touch with the requirements of modem
process-engraving. The bright and original work
of Jessie M. King, Glasgow, has been welcomed
on a previous occasion. Its promise is fulfilled in
this year’s exhibits, and her decorative drawings
show excellent imagination and a fine sense of line
and composition. Alfred Leete, of Weston-super-
{South Kensington)
PANEL FOR A PIANO-FRONT
BY GEORGE c. duxbdry (South Kensington)
DESIGN FOR A PIANO-FRONT BY GEORGE C. DUXBURY
as shown in the drawing, are decorated with carving
in intaglio and low-relief.
An ordinary wooden settle for the fireside, by
John M. Aiken, of South Kensington, is carefully
and sympathetically designed, and the carved deco-
ration is pleasing and appropriate. A silver medal
is awarded to George C. Duxbury, South Kensing-
ton, for his design for a piano-front, which for
broad and poetic treatment represents the best
qualities of modern furniture.
One of the most original conceptions in table
furniture is the design for a small portable book-
case in sycamore wood stained green and polished,
with the ends ornamented in coloured gesso. This
is by Lily Day, of Norwich, and offers one of the
very few suggestions of students for the use of
262
gesso in panelling and in
association with wood.
The end panels for this
work have a design of Una
and the Lion. The work-
ing drawings are beautifully
finished in colour, and the
whole effect is—as it should
be—to make us wish to
see them carried out in
materials, and with the
same perfect workmanship
bestowed on them as in the
preliminary stages.
The designs for pottery
are few in number and do
not rise to a very high
level. The exceptions to
this verdict are the exhibits
of Isaac W. Taylor, of
Wakefield, whose plates
are sparingly and choicely
bordered with conventional design, and of Richard
C. Riseley, Macclesfield, who also shows an excel-
lent plate and some dado tiles. From the Mac-
clesfield school we have in addition John W.
Sherratt’s good designs for tiles.
The work in black-and-white design and book
illustration is generally poor, and certainly below
the average of work now being done in the London
technical schools, especially where the students are
brought into touch with the requirements of modem
process-engraving. The bright and original work
of Jessie M. King, Glasgow, has been welcomed
on a previous occasion. Its promise is fulfilled in
this year’s exhibits, and her decorative drawings
show excellent imagination and a fine sense of line
and composition. Alfred Leete, of Weston-super-
{South Kensington)