DOI Heft:
No. 90 (September, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Wood, Esther: The national competition, 1900
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0296
The National Competition, 1900
ment, are carefully set forth, and the whole work is
beautiful in feeling and expressed with refinement
and restraint. Arthur E. Payne (South Kensington)
is one of the most versatile exhibitors. In the
architectural group he shows a good design for an
oaken church door, well-proportioned and dignified
in treatment, hinged and decorated with beaten,
chased, and pierced iron. The use of the materials
shows originality of feeling as well as an intelligent
knowledge of mediaeval types. From Deptford,
Hubert Miller sends a modelled wall-fountain
which, for so hackneyed a subject, succeeds well in
escaping the commonplace, and pleases by its
quiet and unpretentious character. An attractive
scheme for the decoration of a bedroom is pre-
sented by Edward Walker (Bradford) in a series of
coloured drawings good in scale and detail, and
giving many effective and workable suggestions for
furniture. The colouring is a little laboured and
heavy, but the plans and proportions of the seats,
shelves, cupboards, and so on, are very pleasing.
DESIGN FOR A PANEL OF A SCREEN
BY G. BERNAI.D BENTON
MODELLED DESIGN
FOR A CANDLESTICK BY ARTHUR SCHOl'TF.LD
The decoration of the wardrobe might be toned
down in the execution of the plan. A hanging
cabinet by Frederick Burrows (Putney) is another
good example of furniture design. It may not
always occur to the students that cabinets and
bookcases of any considerable size and weight,
intended for hanging, should be designed in care-
ful relation to the walls which are to hold them.
They can only be properly fixed in a sound
building, and attempts to hang them on nails
upon an ordinary drawing-room wall are always
disastrous.
The only stained-glass work of any striking merit
is by May Cooksey, of Liverpool. This is modestly
called a " domestic window," but it would not be
unbecoming in a public hall. The subject—King
Lear and His Daughters—is handled with a quiet
sincerity which promises well for the student's
future in design. The composition is graceful
and restful to the eye, and the limitations of
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ment, are carefully set forth, and the whole work is
beautiful in feeling and expressed with refinement
and restraint. Arthur E. Payne (South Kensington)
is one of the most versatile exhibitors. In the
architectural group he shows a good design for an
oaken church door, well-proportioned and dignified
in treatment, hinged and decorated with beaten,
chased, and pierced iron. The use of the materials
shows originality of feeling as well as an intelligent
knowledge of mediaeval types. From Deptford,
Hubert Miller sends a modelled wall-fountain
which, for so hackneyed a subject, succeeds well in
escaping the commonplace, and pleases by its
quiet and unpretentious character. An attractive
scheme for the decoration of a bedroom is pre-
sented by Edward Walker (Bradford) in a series of
coloured drawings good in scale and detail, and
giving many effective and workable suggestions for
furniture. The colouring is a little laboured and
heavy, but the plans and proportions of the seats,
shelves, cupboards, and so on, are very pleasing.
DESIGN FOR A PANEL OF A SCREEN
BY G. BERNAI.D BENTON
MODELLED DESIGN
FOR A CANDLESTICK BY ARTHUR SCHOl'TF.LD
The decoration of the wardrobe might be toned
down in the execution of the plan. A hanging
cabinet by Frederick Burrows (Putney) is another
good example of furniture design. It may not
always occur to the students that cabinets and
bookcases of any considerable size and weight,
intended for hanging, should be designed in care-
ful relation to the walls which are to hold them.
They can only be properly fixed in a sound
building, and attempts to hang them on nails
upon an ordinary drawing-room wall are always
disastrous.
The only stained-glass work of any striking merit
is by May Cooksey, of Liverpool. This is modestly
called a " domestic window," but it would not be
unbecoming in a public hall. The subject—King
Lear and His Daughters—is handled with a quiet
sincerity which promises well for the student's
future in design. The composition is graceful
and restful to the eye, and the limitations of
261