Studio: international art (29.1903)

The Arts and Crafts Exhibition

little font—or, rather, "stand and cover
for a font-bowl"—in forged iron and
wrought copper, the metal panels are
kept free of ornament and in the lowest
tones of colour; but a band of letter-
ing borders the upper edge, and the
cover terminates in a conventionalised
figure of a dove suspended over the
water. This sober and efficient piece
of work is designed by R. Evans and
executed by D. Holloway and A. Dufour.

Although textile designs do not at
once claim attention as a prominent
class of exhibits, they well repay a
leisurely survey from the home decora-
tor's point of view. Modern novelists
have lavished their amiable scorn upon
our grandmothers' chintzes, and the
chilly, inhospitable sofas and ottomans
they adorned. Nothing, indeed, could
be less restful than a glazed and loud-
patterned seat or lounge. Yet under
cabinet of English walnut by s. h. barnsley some conditions, especially in houses

were Miss Mary J. Newill's cartoons
for a window in three lights repre-
senting the parable of the Good
Samaritan. The composition is
well balanced and carried out with
good decorative feeling and careful
draughtsmanship. Another thought-
ful and imaginative stained-glass
design was the Sir Galahad, by
Henry A. Payne, which shows the
knight kneeling at a shrine, and is
full of poetic and symbolic detail.

Mr. Harold Cooper's effective
use of plain lattice squares of
glass in his three-fold fire-screen
has already been described; but a
pleasant little basket-grate in
wrought-iron from the Guild of
Handicraft remains to be noted.
This is designed by W. J. Osburn
and executed by W. Thornton,
C. Downer, and F. Brown. The
solid standards at either end are
carried out with a modification of
the poppy-head form, and harmonise
well with the treatment of the back

u ure-iiuus. writing cabinet by s. e. barnsley and e. w. gimson

In Messrs. Waltham's simple executed by p. waals

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