DOI issue:
No. 157 (April, 1906)
DOI article:The arts and crafts exhibition at the Grafton Gallery, [3]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0244
Arts and Crafts Exhibition. Concluding Notice
who have confidence in their
selection of a simple motif
which they use for repetition.
We have already had occa-
sion in a preceding article
to refer to the cross by Mr.
Edward Spencer and the
animals by Mr. H. Stabler.
We are "enabled to illustrate
this month the cushion by
Miss May Morris to which
we formerly referred, and to
emphasise again in our re-
marks the quite unusual
degree of beauty attained
BY THACKERAY TURNER
BUCKLE AND CHAIN BY MAY MORRIS
in its designing. It is, frankly, a cushion made
for the sake of its design and for effectiveness.
It could never come into the ordinary rough
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service which the useful cushions of a room get, for
the pattern is carried out on an almost white surface
of plush. Because it is so triumphantly artistic and
pleasurable to the eye, this is certainly justified.
With their simplicity and naivete, Miss Morris's
card-case designs have a character all their own,
fascinating enough to any student of needlework.
We now come to the glass work, and it is upon
Messrs. Powell that the Arts and Crafts depends for
some fresh triumphs in design at each of its
exhibitions. Mr. Harry Powell is entitled to con-
GOLD NECKLACE BY R. J. EMERSON
AND HROOCH EXHIBITED BY COLLINS & CO.
who have confidence in their
selection of a simple motif
which they use for repetition.
We have already had occa-
sion in a preceding article
to refer to the cross by Mr.
Edward Spencer and the
animals by Mr. H. Stabler.
We are "enabled to illustrate
this month the cushion by
Miss May Morris to which
we formerly referred, and to
emphasise again in our re-
marks the quite unusual
degree of beauty attained
BY THACKERAY TURNER
BUCKLE AND CHAIN BY MAY MORRIS
in its designing. It is, frankly, a cushion made
for the sake of its design and for effectiveness.
It could never come into the ordinary rough
224
service which the useful cushions of a room get, for
the pattern is carried out on an almost white surface
of plush. Because it is so triumphantly artistic and
pleasurable to the eye, this is certainly justified.
With their simplicity and naivete, Miss Morris's
card-case designs have a character all their own,
fascinating enough to any student of needlework.
We now come to the glass work, and it is upon
Messrs. Powell that the Arts and Crafts depends for
some fresh triumphs in design at each of its
exhibitions. Mr. Harry Powell is entitled to con-
GOLD NECKLACE BY R. J. EMERSON
AND HROOCH EXHIBITED BY COLLINS & CO.