Studio: international art (23.1901)

Home Arts and Industries

piece of furniture; and there was
also a charming little cupboard
in which the natural grain of the
wood had suggested waves with
clouds above them, only awaiting
the deft hand of the artist to add
the suggestive line, the right splash
of colour, and to introduce with
almost magical success the figure
of a child looking forth from a
window at the extreme edge of the
panel. Another ingenious adapta-
tion from the living subject occurred
in the decoration of a casket with
an arrangement of the poplars seen
from the terrace at the Elizabethan
manor house of Brympton, Somerset,
the terrace itself being introduced

cushion cover in applique embroidery . .. , , . , . , ,

, . in suitably varied inlay, and com-

designed by godfrey blount (haslemere) _ 1 j'

pleting a composition presenting
great technical difficulties admirably
thoroughness of the workmanship were beyond overcome. Mrs. Carpenter's casket from Bolton-
question. Another charming little dresser came on Swale was inlaid with a beautiful little design
from Mrs. Leopold de Rothschild's class at called Reflection^ a study of cattle fording a stream,
Ascott, Bucks. This was in dark oak, with steel treated with an imaginative sympathy not often
hinges and carved panels to the cupboard doors, applied to wood-inlay, and yet well restrained
From Ascott came also the best chair of the year, within the limits of the method and material,
with a light-barred frame and a big, commodious Miss Noyes's design of owls in dark oak panels
seat of plaited leather j a dainty little standing was also very effective,
bookcase, and some hanging cupboards,
both carved and inlaid with good designs.
Finchampstead sent some small carved r. .............

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worthy of the workmanship, and some
pretty and original little soap-boxes from
Kirkby Moorside deserve mention.

The designs in wood-inlay took again
the high place which they have for years
maintained at these exhibitions under the
leadership of the Hon. Mabel de Grey
and the Hon. Mrs. Carpenter. These
ladies indeed, together with Miss Noyes,
and their creditable body of pupils at
Pimlico, Stepney, Little Gaddesden, and
Bolton-on-Swale, may be said to have
surpassed themselves in the application
of decorative inlay to caskets and cup-
boards. Among Miss de Grey's exhibits,
the happiest efforts were the designs based
upon the coprinus fungus, which yielded
surprising results in variety of decorative
form and delicate beauty of colour.
A parasol-box for the hall thus treated

r tablecloth in coloured applique

became quite a dainty and interesting designed by Godfrey bloumt (haslemere)

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