DOI Heft:
Nr. 119 (February 1903)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19878#0078
Studio- Talk
occupied almost entirely by the entrance hall sections, containing hundreds of exhibits, covering
and three large galleries. Madras showed speci- the whole range of the artistic crafts of India, from
mens of furniture covered with masses of grotesque stone-carving to embroidery, into one decorative
carving in the highest relief, mixed with panels whole was no easy task. It was successfully
of clean-cut copper, in which the stories of the achieved, however, and the effect was due principally
gods of the Hindoo Pantheon were somewhat to the admirable manner in which the wall space
crudely depicted. The school at Bombay sent a was utilized. That immediately facing the spec-
room panelled in the celebrated gold brocades of tator upon entering the building contained a series
Ahmedabad, framed in carved teak, above which of facades of buildings representing the principal
were reproductions of the well-known pierced styles of domestic architecture in India, from
windows of Ahmedabad. The furniture was of Travancore on the South to Bijapur in the Deccan,
black wood, carved in a similar style, upholstered and so on through lihownaggar in Kathiawan to
with brocades from Surat The Lahore school Lahore in the North. These houses were so
sent some refined and characteristic Punjaub arranged that in spite of the diversity of their styles,
wood-work, the most noticeable feature of their no sense of incongruity was felt by their being placed
room being a beautiful carved balcony. These side by side, although in nearly every case they
small rooms are undoubtedly among the most in- were the fronts of actual buildings taken down and
teresting and suggestive portions of the exhibition, re-erected in the exhibition. The opposite wall
The arrangement of the main gallery was a problem was entirely devoted to the exhibition of carpets,
of considerable difficulty, for to combine separate fine specimens of which had been sent from all
the principal centres of
this increasing industry.
Arranged as they were
they gave a completeness
and harmony to the wall
full of suggestiveness to
the docorator, and they,
together with the house
fronts, made a splendid
framing to the sections
containing the rest of the
exhibits.
OLD DOORWAY FROM AHMEDABAD
Although the practical
and commercial side of
the exhibition had by no
means been lost sight of,
as the excellent arrange-
ments made for the sale
of the works testified, yet
Dr. Watt contrived to
impart to this gallery
more the atmosphere of
the Arts and Crafts
Society's Exhibition than
that of the shop or
bazaar. The only section
which was frankly com-
mercial was that set apart
for jewellery. The floor
space in this court had
been let to the principal
native jewellers in India,
and so eager were they
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occupied almost entirely by the entrance hall sections, containing hundreds of exhibits, covering
and three large galleries. Madras showed speci- the whole range of the artistic crafts of India, from
mens of furniture covered with masses of grotesque stone-carving to embroidery, into one decorative
carving in the highest relief, mixed with panels whole was no easy task. It was successfully
of clean-cut copper, in which the stories of the achieved, however, and the effect was due principally
gods of the Hindoo Pantheon were somewhat to the admirable manner in which the wall space
crudely depicted. The school at Bombay sent a was utilized. That immediately facing the spec-
room panelled in the celebrated gold brocades of tator upon entering the building contained a series
Ahmedabad, framed in carved teak, above which of facades of buildings representing the principal
were reproductions of the well-known pierced styles of domestic architecture in India, from
windows of Ahmedabad. The furniture was of Travancore on the South to Bijapur in the Deccan,
black wood, carved in a similar style, upholstered and so on through lihownaggar in Kathiawan to
with brocades from Surat The Lahore school Lahore in the North. These houses were so
sent some refined and characteristic Punjaub arranged that in spite of the diversity of their styles,
wood-work, the most noticeable feature of their no sense of incongruity was felt by their being placed
room being a beautiful carved balcony. These side by side, although in nearly every case they
small rooms are undoubtedly among the most in- were the fronts of actual buildings taken down and
teresting and suggestive portions of the exhibition, re-erected in the exhibition. The opposite wall
The arrangement of the main gallery was a problem was entirely devoted to the exhibition of carpets,
of considerable difficulty, for to combine separate fine specimens of which had been sent from all
the principal centres of
this increasing industry.
Arranged as they were
they gave a completeness
and harmony to the wall
full of suggestiveness to
the docorator, and they,
together with the house
fronts, made a splendid
framing to the sections
containing the rest of the
exhibits.
OLD DOORWAY FROM AHMEDABAD
Although the practical
and commercial side of
the exhibition had by no
means been lost sight of,
as the excellent arrange-
ments made for the sale
of the works testified, yet
Dr. Watt contrived to
impart to this gallery
more the atmosphere of
the Arts and Crafts
Society's Exhibition than
that of the shop or
bazaar. The only section
which was frankly com-
mercial was that set apart
for jewellery. The floor
space in this court had
been let to the principal
native jewellers in India,
and so eager were they
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