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Studio: international art — 30.1904

DOI Heft:
No. 130 (January, 1904)
DOI Artikel:
West, W. K.: Recent works by Mr. Reynolds-Stephens
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0319

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Recent Works by W. Reynolds-Stephens

bination of breadth and elaboration. The decora-
tion has all necessary picturesqueness, without any
sacrifice of its domestic character.

The room is treated in a scheme of green and
silver, with accents of warm yellow-brown. The
green is introduced chiefly in the woodwork and
in the flat marble pilasters which divide the walls
into panels; the silver comes in the ceiling, which
is overlaid with aluminium, and the yellow-brown
accents are given by the oak floor, the mahogany
doors, and the copper-gold canvas which covers
the wall panels. In the frieze of orange trees with
green leaves and pale yellow fruit, and vines with
pale blue bunches of grapes, the predominating
green is broken into its component parts just as in
the wall canvas the yellow-brown suggestion is
obtained by a pattern which carries the lighter
yellow of the floor over a ground of a darker red-
brown approximating to the colour of the mahogany
doors. The window curtains and hangings are of
a darker grey-green, carrying out properly the
gradation of the green; and the silver grey of the
ceiling is itself gradated in effect by the play of
light and shade in a low-relief pattern of rose

foliage and flowers, which fills the coving above the
frieze. Another touch of grey is given by the
polished steel hoods over the fireplaces.

Evidence of the artist's constructive capacity is
to be found in many parts of the room—in the
ingenious iron 'bars which are placed in the wall
panels for hanging pictures, in the shaded lights
which are fixed in the standards by the chief
fireplace, and in the pendants over the panels, so
as to light the walls without dazzling the looker-on,
and in the other lamps which provide the general
lighting of the room. These last are arranged in
flat, saucer-shaped shades, hung from the ceiling,
and set with glass jewels and pieces of translucent
shell. No lights are actually seen, but by reflection
from the metallic surface of the ceiling the room is
made perfectly brilliant without any glare, and the
details of the decorations are effectively revealed.
In all this can be perceived the working of an
artistic mind, which ignores nothing that will
contribute to the completeness of a well-imagined
scheme, and regards as unimportant none of the
little details required to give full meaning to a
complicated piece of decoration.
 
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