DOI Heft:
No. 90 (September, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Wood, Esther: The national competition, 1900
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The National Competition, 1900
tendency towards a lighter and more ■hj/a
cleanly treatment of floors in a climate
where mud is a factor to be reckoned
with in the ordering and daily care 01
the dwelling. Embroidery for furniture
and for personal apparel does not come
under this ban, though we may notice
the total disappearance of the em-
broidered footstool—gone, let us hope,
with the worked slippers that once
reposed upon its gorgeous beads and
wool. The embroidered gown by Alice
B. Loch (South Kensington) marks
an attempt, which should be warmly
encouraged, to restore dainty hand-
stitching to the decoration of clothing.
A gown simply modelled, ot good
material, and adorned with some in-
teresting design upon the cuffs, collar,
waistband, and hem, or with an em-
broidered yoke or panel, should surely
be more beautiful than one upon which
machine-labour has been lavished for
the production of tucks in so many
design for a printed hanging by william ferguson
^tf-~-—
rows of mechanical stitching. The needlework
panel for a fire-screen by Robert A. Dawson
(South Kensington) is an instance of the dis-
crepancy already noted between an excellent
working drawing and its execution in silk em-
■klHi Sffli^B am I broidery. A charming little design for a mantel-
border, based upon the airy " puff-ball" or " what's-
o'-clock," by Katharine M. Warren (Nottingham),
is one of the most successful in this group.
Designs for screens and panels for walls or furni-
ture are few in number, and do not wander far
from the safe ground of needlework. It would be
interesting to see more attempts towards panelling
in gesso, metal, and wood. The "panel of
screen," by G. Bernald Benton (Birmingham), is
one of the best of the decorations for furniture.
This school, or rather the several schools within
this city, send a large contingent of furniture
design and some very good work in architecture
and metals. The wrought-iron gates and railings
by James A. Jones are admirable in their freshness
and simplicity of treatment, and in their straight-
forward and workmanlike structure. The highly
promising talent of Joseph Else (Nottingham) has
already been illustrated in these pages. He is here
represented by a very pleasing little modelled study
for a hospital doorway. The principal decoration
design for a hanging caeinet is a has^ei depicting the healing of the sick.
by Frederick burrows This, and the various details of structure and orna-
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tendency towards a lighter and more ■hj/a
cleanly treatment of floors in a climate
where mud is a factor to be reckoned
with in the ordering and daily care 01
the dwelling. Embroidery for furniture
and for personal apparel does not come
under this ban, though we may notice
the total disappearance of the em-
broidered footstool—gone, let us hope,
with the worked slippers that once
reposed upon its gorgeous beads and
wool. The embroidered gown by Alice
B. Loch (South Kensington) marks
an attempt, which should be warmly
encouraged, to restore dainty hand-
stitching to the decoration of clothing.
A gown simply modelled, ot good
material, and adorned with some in-
teresting design upon the cuffs, collar,
waistband, and hem, or with an em-
broidered yoke or panel, should surely
be more beautiful than one upon which
machine-labour has been lavished for
the production of tucks in so many
design for a printed hanging by william ferguson
^tf-~-—
rows of mechanical stitching. The needlework
panel for a fire-screen by Robert A. Dawson
(South Kensington) is an instance of the dis-
crepancy already noted between an excellent
working drawing and its execution in silk em-
■klHi Sffli^B am I broidery. A charming little design for a mantel-
border, based upon the airy " puff-ball" or " what's-
o'-clock," by Katharine M. Warren (Nottingham),
is one of the most successful in this group.
Designs for screens and panels for walls or furni-
ture are few in number, and do not wander far
from the safe ground of needlework. It would be
interesting to see more attempts towards panelling
in gesso, metal, and wood. The "panel of
screen," by G. Bernald Benton (Birmingham), is
one of the best of the decorations for furniture.
This school, or rather the several schools within
this city, send a large contingent of furniture
design and some very good work in architecture
and metals. The wrought-iron gates and railings
by James A. Jones are admirable in their freshness
and simplicity of treatment, and in their straight-
forward and workmanlike structure. The highly
promising talent of Joseph Else (Nottingham) has
already been illustrated in these pages. He is here
represented by a very pleasing little modelled study
for a hospital doorway. The principal decoration
design for a hanging caeinet is a has^ei depicting the healing of the sick.
by Frederick burrows This, and the various details of structure and orna-
260
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!
it ' (<h*.
} ll