Studio: international art (39.1907)

Mr. G. P. Bankarfs Plaster Work

position and treatment of
the decoration. In neither
case is the surface entirely
covered with pattern, but
rather it is broken by dis-
tribution of line and mass
in such wise that the con-
trast between effusiveness
and reticence, elaboration
and plainness of surface, is
turned to the best account.
The plan adopted is that
of moulded bands or groins,
arranged in a repeat of the
simplest geometrical con-
struction — the possible
plaster frieze in business room at coupar angus, Perthshire varieties of which are so

designed and executed by g. p. bankart ,

many that there is no neces-

I am glad to___J sity to duplicate

be able to corro- the same design
borate Mr. Pan- in any two rooms
kart's views, from —the rigidity of
their perfect ac- this skeleton out-
cord with two line being relieved
fine and not too at set intervals by

pies of plaster or abstract detail

decoration that in the angles,

have lately come with bosses at

under my notice the intersections.

—to wit, that at Further, it is in-

the old Eliza- ' structive to note,

bethan mansion , as Plas Mawr

called Plas ceiling decoration at thorpe underwood, yorks exemplifies, that

Mawr, at Con- designed and executed by g. p. bankart wajis reqUire to

way, and that at the not _________________________________________

somewhat later period, the L ]

ceilings alone are thus orna-
mented. In both cases
the same workmanlike, and

therefore artistic, principles 1 " ' .....

' ^ r portion of dining-room ceiling at grimston court, york

dominate the whole com- designed and executed by g. p. bankart