Studio: international art (38.1906)

Inn Signs at Lucerne

FIG. 8. SIGN OF THE “HOTEL SADVAGE,” LUCERNE

FIG. 9. SIGN OF THE “HOTEL DE l’aNGE," LUCERNE

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at hand is the Hotel de l'Ours (Fig. 6); and then, up
a small street that runs out of the Pfister Gasse on
the right hand, is the Hotel Rutli (Fig. 10),
a beautiful design of grape leaves, tendrils, and
scroll-work. Proceeding up the Pfister Gasse, we
find, nearly opposite the entrance to the Spreuer-
briicke, is the Hotel de I’Ange (Fig. 9), one of
the most graceful of our examples.

These inn signs show what excellent work the
iron-smiths of Lucerne can turn out. If space per-
mitted, one would like to give sketches of many

FIG. IO. SIGN OF THE “ h6tEL RUTLI,” LUCERNE

beautiful and quaint objects that we have now passed
without notice : such as other elaborate signs over
the guild-houses, chemists’ shops, and nearly every
tradesman's shop. Then there are fine examples of
carved doors, carved bench-ends and stalls in the
churches; some curious bronze work in the spouts
to the fountains, and the fountains themselves.
The latter are in some cases very beautiful—perhaps
in another article one may be permitted to deal
with some of these. We think the examples here
given will suffice to convince our readers that at
any rate there is some beautiful wrought-iron work
in Lucerne. A. Elliot.

Hungarian art at the

MILAN EXHIBITION. BY
ALFREDO MELANI.

[The following article was written just before the
recent disastrous fire at Milan by which the section
of the exhibition with which it deals was almost
entirely destroyed by fire, along with the whole of