Studio: international art (35.1905)

The National Competition

Bromhall (Regent Street
Polytechnic) has achieved
a rather brilliant panel in
stained wood for a piano-
front, which needs scale for
a fair judgment of its effect
in the room for which it is
intended; but it is a bold
and richly-coloured scheme
in reds and gold, and the
drawing and composition
are very careful and good.
A series of large studies
for the decoration of an

DESIGN FOR MEMORIAL TABLET BY R. J. EMERSON (LEICESTER, THE NEWARKE) , ,, , ™ , .

entrance hall by Tobias
Lewis (another of the
promising' group at Regent Street) reveal a genuine
feeling for decoration on an architectural scheme,
and a somewhat ambitious and exacting piece
of work is very creditably carried out. The scheme
for a drawing-room decoration by Joseph Pearce
(Liverpool, Mount Street) is shown in workman-
like detail, and the quiet white and green
colouring is well suited to the style. Among the
very few designs for furniture is one for an oak
chest with inlaid panels by Charles Taunton (Regent

DESIGN FOR BACK OF BY R. J. EMERSON DESIGN FOR EMBROIDERED

HAND-MIRROR (LEICESTER, THE NEWARKE) FIRE-SCREEN PANEL

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BY KATE BUTTON
(CLEVEDON)