Studio: international art (29.1903)

The Arts and Crafts Exhibition

TILES DESIGNED BY WALTER CRANE

EXHIBITED BY THE P1LKINGT0N
TILE AND POTTERY CO.

structure, and delicate finish of workmanship. This
should commend itself by its modest claims on cubic
space and by the beauty of its sober chequered surface.

Mr. Sidney H. Barnsley has built a bureau in
oak on a similar plan, but here the natural grain of
the wood, selected in darker tones than that of the
frame, yields a decoration of a remarkably successful
kind, in the shape of plain square panels in relief.
The interior fittings are ample, and conveniently
arranged. The same designer sent an oak side-
board of an unconventional and handy size; also a
beautifully wrought cabinet of English walnut
inlaid with pearl, having the decoration applied
most richly to the door of the small central cup-
board, which is surrounded by drawers filling the
remaining spaces. In another exhibit, a little chest
in darker wood with mother-o'-pearl, simple in form
but rich in surface like an old-time work-box or tea-
caddy, he had the co-operation of R. W. Schultz.
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For combining the simplest form of writing-
table with just enough store-room for stationery
and letters, nothing could be better than the
exhibit of Mr. Charles Spooner, whose work in
furniture we have already noted. This table,
made by P. A. Wells and H, Martin, is of
light oak with a very delicate inlay of the
whitest pearl, culminating in a quaint little
ornament for the escutcheon of a pair of doors
that enclose the light cupboard in front of the
writer. Ivory instead of pearl is used for the
inlay of the dainty little cabinet in Italian
walnut by the same designer, which is made by
W. Sparrow and E. J. Minihane. Some much
larger and more florid cabinets for china and
curios were to be seen in the west room—one
designed by George Jack and exhibited by
Morris & Co., and one by S. Ernest Barnsley
and Ernest W. Gimson, in the red mahogany

CARTOONS FOR BY MARY J. NEWILL

STAINED GLASS