Studio: international art (21.1901)

Studio- Talk

book-case by talwin morris

Mr. Morris does not confine his efforts to a express his ideas in different ways through varied

special branch of art work, and is not content to mediums, but they rather act as incentives to widen

be narrowed down to the repetition of ideas in one the scope of his efforts, and so we are enabled

particular direction; he has both the inclination to illustrate examples of his work which reveal to

and the capacity to seek after independence 01 some extent the fertility of his imagination and

thought and practice. His successes in one the wide range of his technical acquirements,

branch of art have not satisfied the ambition to -

The bookcase shows
how Mr. Morris in his
furniture design aims at
maintaining in the
leading structural lines
simplicity of form, re-
lieved in secondary parts
by ornamental detail.
The plain, severe cha-
racter of the details,
together with the ab-
sence of mouldings, makes
the case seem almost
bald at first sight, but the
restraint and refinement
cannot fail to be appre-
ciated. Mr. Morris gives
due attention to the posi-

panel in hammered brass designed and executed r

by talwin morris tion which the piece of

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