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Nr. 118 (January 1903)
DOI Artikel:Radford, Ernest: Modern English plastering: Mr. G. P. Bankart's work
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19877#0282
Modern English Plaster PVork
plasterer was the supreme decorator, uniting in little time ago while Mr. Bankart was lecturing,
fact the provinces of both sculptor and painter, and so doubtless will those at whose invitation he
External walls were sometimes covered entirely proposes to visit America.
with pargetry string-courses, and cornices and other There remains little for me to do but lead the
architectural features all claimed his attention in reader along the path Mr. Bankart has cleared for
turn." This suggests what we know to be true, workers in this material, and the accompanying illus-
namely, that there was a deal too much of trations should help me. The material mastered,
it sometimes. Because Nature abhors a vacuum, the lesson is easily learnt. Let stucco duro be put out
it does not follow that space should not be of our minds altogether, as well as any idea of sub-
respected at all. " I would have a bit of the mitting a softer substance to the same treatment as
firmament about everything dear to me," says that. " The cobbler should stick to his last." This
a writer. sturdy old saw contains the essence of Lessing's
" In fact," Mr. Robinson says, " there is hardly a treatise in brief, and has helped many a time to
house in England which does not retain the evidence give a particular artist his due, and is here pressed
of his artistic powers," and those who have had the into service again.
pleasure of seeing the whole matter illustrated by Mr. Bankart referred in his lecture to Mr.
Mr. Bankart himself during the course of his Gimson's work as the best he knew of this kind,
lectures have had all the proofs they require. so there are already two able men in the field, and
"In the. old half-
timber houses, the want of
truth in the carpentry
compelled the plaster to
be laid on with the trowel,
not plastered with rule
and float." There are many
who will not have even this
laid against those merry old
middle ages, and more who
think it merit to have a
lot of nails out of line, but
these would-be friends are
really the enemies we have
in our camp. I saw a sweet
little folding triptych in
Bond Street the other day,
the doors of which opened
upon . . . Cab fairs ! And
the price of it !
" Shall no beauty but
the beauty of words be
produced by man in our
times ?" It is always a
pleasure to quote Morris's
gospel rather than what is
written in the same strain
by the hypochondriacs
among his disciples. There
are hundreds nowadays who
will go any distance in
reason to hear a man speak
of his pleasure in the craft
he has mastered, and ex-
pound the principles of it.
w , , , ■ , y , portion of drawing-room ceiling at by G. p. bankart
e naa tnls uellgnt some hartfeury house, Gloucestershire
270
plasterer was the supreme decorator, uniting in little time ago while Mr. Bankart was lecturing,
fact the provinces of both sculptor and painter, and so doubtless will those at whose invitation he
External walls were sometimes covered entirely proposes to visit America.
with pargetry string-courses, and cornices and other There remains little for me to do but lead the
architectural features all claimed his attention in reader along the path Mr. Bankart has cleared for
turn." This suggests what we know to be true, workers in this material, and the accompanying illus-
namely, that there was a deal too much of trations should help me. The material mastered,
it sometimes. Because Nature abhors a vacuum, the lesson is easily learnt. Let stucco duro be put out
it does not follow that space should not be of our minds altogether, as well as any idea of sub-
respected at all. " I would have a bit of the mitting a softer substance to the same treatment as
firmament about everything dear to me," says that. " The cobbler should stick to his last." This
a writer. sturdy old saw contains the essence of Lessing's
" In fact," Mr. Robinson says, " there is hardly a treatise in brief, and has helped many a time to
house in England which does not retain the evidence give a particular artist his due, and is here pressed
of his artistic powers," and those who have had the into service again.
pleasure of seeing the whole matter illustrated by Mr. Bankart referred in his lecture to Mr.
Mr. Bankart himself during the course of his Gimson's work as the best he knew of this kind,
lectures have had all the proofs they require. so there are already two able men in the field, and
"In the. old half-
timber houses, the want of
truth in the carpentry
compelled the plaster to
be laid on with the trowel,
not plastered with rule
and float." There are many
who will not have even this
laid against those merry old
middle ages, and more who
think it merit to have a
lot of nails out of line, but
these would-be friends are
really the enemies we have
in our camp. I saw a sweet
little folding triptych in
Bond Street the other day,
the doors of which opened
upon . . . Cab fairs ! And
the price of it !
" Shall no beauty but
the beauty of words be
produced by man in our
times ?" It is always a
pleasure to quote Morris's
gospel rather than what is
written in the same strain
by the hypochondriacs
among his disciples. There
are hundreds nowadays who
will go any distance in
reason to hear a man speak
of his pleasure in the craft
he has mastered, and ex-
pound the principles of it.
w , , , ■ , y , portion of drawing-room ceiling at by G. p. bankart
e naa tnls uellgnt some hartfeury house, Gloucestershire
270