DOI issue:
Nr. 78 (Septembre 1899)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0302
Studio-Talk
DESIGN FOR A SILVER CHATELAINE
BY KATE ALLEN {New Cross)
[See “ The National Competition ”)
Mr. W. R. Lethaby, and taught by men so distin-
guished as Messrs. Christopher Whall, R. Roscoe
Mullins, Louis Davis, Douglas B. Cockerell, F. Mor-
ley Fletcher, and others, one expects to find some-
thing like originality, and one is not disappointed.
The programme of the Regent Street School is
nothing if not comprehensive. Everything is
attempted, from architecture to woodcuts in
colour, and writing, and illumination. The ex-
amples of bookbinding in the recent exhibition
were very numerous. The work of G. Sutcliffe and
F. Sangoski was particularly good. A copy of
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“ Quo Vadis,” bound by the latter, was a really
distinguished piece of craft, at once simple and
ornate. Dean Farrar’s “ Life of Christ ” received a
binding ecclesiastical in character which deserves
praise. The chief ornament was a decorative cross,
which has been most ingeniously contrived. This
must be set down to the credit of A. Molyneux.
The stained glass was of very fair quality. In some
cases the designs were original, and in others
examples after cartoons by Ford Madox Brown,
Selwyn Image, and Christopher Whall had been
carefully executed. We were especially glad to find
a series of patterns of plain leading which showed
both skill and taste. Simplicity was very properly
the note of most of them, and it is astonishing how
much decorative effect was obtained without need-
less elaboration.
A good deal of attention has evidently been paid
to ornamental leadwork, a branch of applied art
which has of late years been much neglected.
DESIGN FOR A MENU CARD
BY FRANK E. wiles (Cambridge)
(See “ The National Competition”)
DESIGN FOR A SILVER CHATELAINE
BY KATE ALLEN {New Cross)
[See “ The National Competition ”)
Mr. W. R. Lethaby, and taught by men so distin-
guished as Messrs. Christopher Whall, R. Roscoe
Mullins, Louis Davis, Douglas B. Cockerell, F. Mor-
ley Fletcher, and others, one expects to find some-
thing like originality, and one is not disappointed.
The programme of the Regent Street School is
nothing if not comprehensive. Everything is
attempted, from architecture to woodcuts in
colour, and writing, and illumination. The ex-
amples of bookbinding in the recent exhibition
were very numerous. The work of G. Sutcliffe and
F. Sangoski was particularly good. A copy of
268
“ Quo Vadis,” bound by the latter, was a really
distinguished piece of craft, at once simple and
ornate. Dean Farrar’s “ Life of Christ ” received a
binding ecclesiastical in character which deserves
praise. The chief ornament was a decorative cross,
which has been most ingeniously contrived. This
must be set down to the credit of A. Molyneux.
The stained glass was of very fair quality. In some
cases the designs were original, and in others
examples after cartoons by Ford Madox Brown,
Selwyn Image, and Christopher Whall had been
carefully executed. We were especially glad to find
a series of patterns of plain leading which showed
both skill and taste. Simplicity was very properly
the note of most of them, and it is astonishing how
much decorative effect was obtained without need-
less elaboration.
A good deal of attention has evidently been paid
to ornamental leadwork, a branch of applied art
which has of late years been much neglected.
DESIGN FOR A MENU CARD
BY FRANK E. wiles (Cambridge)
(See “ The National Competition”)