Studio: international art (18.1900)

Sttidio- Talk

Dedication, by G. F. Watts, R.A.; Approaching
Night, by H. W. B. Davis, R.A.; landscapes by
Alfred East, A.R.A., and David Murray, A. R.A. ;
The Windmill, by Yeend King; Christ and the
Magdalen, by Arthur Hacker, A.R.A.; and
Arnesby Brown's very striking rendering of cart-
horses, called Labourers.

PARIS.—" The Inn of To-morrow "—
such was the subject of a competition
recently organised by the Societe
Nationale des Architectes de France
for the benefit of students and young
French architects between the ages of eighteen
and twenty-five years. The idea is timely and

ILLUSTRATION FOR THE " PIED PIPER OF

IIAMELIN " BY H. SCHWAIGER

{See Vienna Studio-Tall')

PORTRAIT OF HIMSELF BY H. SCHWAIGER

[See Vienna Studio-Talk)

original, and one could wish there were always
some incentive of this sort to be held out to the
designers of our houses and public buildings.
For once in a way the Society has shown itself
up-to-date, instead of encouraging the servile
imitation of the past. Unhappily it is only too
clear that, with the development of means of
personal transport, in the shape of bicycles,
petrolettes and motor-cars of all sorts, the old inn
of our fathers', or rather our grandfathers', days
has ceased to satisfy the requirements of modern
times. " L'auberge de demain ! " I doubt if it
can ever be made more delightful to the lover
of the picturesque or to the artist than the old-
fashioned inn of bygone days. It will, I fear, be
more of a factory, a repairing workshop for our
new-fangled engines of locomotion than anything
else, and this, it would appear, had been foreseen
by those who framed the rules of the competition.
Perhaps, after all, the new inn will not be so ugly
as we fear; modern life does not strike us as
picturesque, but maybe it will seem so to genera-
tions yet to come. The ruins of a fine factory—
if such a thing can be said to exist, which is open
to doubt—may possibly offer a noble subject for
landscape treatment to the painter of 1999, or even