DOI Heft:
No. 82 (January, 1900)
DOI Artikel:British decorative art in 1899, and the Arts And Crafts Exhibition, [4]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0287
Arts and Crafts
ning were welcomed as among his chiefest
characteristics. The gracefully flowing curves
of his ornament are seemingly as full of life
and flexibility as it is possible for them to be, con-
sistently with preserving the crisp rigidity proper to
the material. This remark holds good in either
case, whether the ornament be strictly abstract, or
founded upon natural forms. The design for a door-
panel of open metal-work, with the fanlight over it,
no less than the fire-screen and lantern bracket for
electric lighting, alike embody the originality and
freedom to which attention has been directed.
The lanterns, whether suspended from the ceiling
or supported on wall-brackets, are equally effective,
howsoever unpretending their initial form. In
Mr. Pepper's hands they are constructed generally
upon a plan which is simplicity itself—a domical
or conical roof connected with the circular base by
vertical bands at intervals round the glass globe or
cylinder. Such are the indispensable units to be
dealt with, but out of these elements the inventive
genius of the artist sees a way to almost boundless
possibilities. The vertical members may be made
to curve outwards or inwards, their sides be splayed
design for lantern bracket by h. s. pepper or serrated, or they may terminate at either end in
an infinity of decorative forms; while the top of
the lantern admits of an inconceivable variety of
of water, and the shell and seaweed border is outline, or again it may be ornamented with em-
thoroughly in keeping with the rest of the design. bossing or perforated patterns. As an example of
The set of fire-irons and pair of fire-dogs,
like the ship grille, are executed by the ........ tmmmmmwmmmmmmmmmmmm^m^mmtKKti
Bostwick Gate and Shutter Company to
Mr. Smith's designs. The fire-dogs are
good specimens of the highest class of
smithing, forged as they arc in one solid •• <• > - . •. , IVc)
piece, instead of being made, as would *b" %r if"'
ordinarily be done, in three pieces, the ,.
head screwed on to the neck, and the rest
at the back rivetted on to the junction j J \ \ j / / j
of the feet. The ornament of crimson \ I j\\ 1 / ] I j
enamel in the head of the fire-dogs was
supplied by Mr. Alexander Fisher.
In an early number, in fact as far
back as August, 1894, The Studio J ;V ' fjt
noticed the work of Mr. Herbert Pepper,
then described as a new designer of v.
metal-work. Since that time his pro-
gress has been such, and the position he
lias gained in his profession so assured, \ tj ^ \ i| A-.-\\|
as to have vindicated to the letter the
most favourable predictions for his
future. To this day he has happily —.....'-— -....................--------——,------------ '
retained that individual freshness and
unconventionality which in the begin- design for a fire screen by h. s. pepper
259
ning were welcomed as among his chiefest
characteristics. The gracefully flowing curves
of his ornament are seemingly as full of life
and flexibility as it is possible for them to be, con-
sistently with preserving the crisp rigidity proper to
the material. This remark holds good in either
case, whether the ornament be strictly abstract, or
founded upon natural forms. The design for a door-
panel of open metal-work, with the fanlight over it,
no less than the fire-screen and lantern bracket for
electric lighting, alike embody the originality and
freedom to which attention has been directed.
The lanterns, whether suspended from the ceiling
or supported on wall-brackets, are equally effective,
howsoever unpretending their initial form. In
Mr. Pepper's hands they are constructed generally
upon a plan which is simplicity itself—a domical
or conical roof connected with the circular base by
vertical bands at intervals round the glass globe or
cylinder. Such are the indispensable units to be
dealt with, but out of these elements the inventive
genius of the artist sees a way to almost boundless
possibilities. The vertical members may be made
to curve outwards or inwards, their sides be splayed
design for lantern bracket by h. s. pepper or serrated, or they may terminate at either end in
an infinity of decorative forms; while the top of
the lantern admits of an inconceivable variety of
of water, and the shell and seaweed border is outline, or again it may be ornamented with em-
thoroughly in keeping with the rest of the design. bossing or perforated patterns. As an example of
The set of fire-irons and pair of fire-dogs,
like the ship grille, are executed by the ........ tmmmmmwmmmmmmmmmmmm^m^mmtKKti
Bostwick Gate and Shutter Company to
Mr. Smith's designs. The fire-dogs are
good specimens of the highest class of
smithing, forged as they arc in one solid •• <• > - . •. , IVc)
piece, instead of being made, as would *b" %r if"'
ordinarily be done, in three pieces, the ,.
head screwed on to the neck, and the rest
at the back rivetted on to the junction j J \ \ j / / j
of the feet. The ornament of crimson \ I j\\ 1 / ] I j
enamel in the head of the fire-dogs was
supplied by Mr. Alexander Fisher.
In an early number, in fact as far
back as August, 1894, The Studio J ;V ' fjt
noticed the work of Mr. Herbert Pepper,
then described as a new designer of v.
metal-work. Since that time his pro-
gress has been such, and the position he
lias gained in his profession so assured, \ tj ^ \ i| A-.-\\|
as to have vindicated to the letter the
most favourable predictions for his
future. To this day he has happily —.....'-— -....................--------——,------------ '
retained that individual freshness and
unconventionality which in the begin- design for a fire screen by h. s. pepper
259