Studio: international art (45.1909)

Art School Notes

DESIGN FOR DAMASK NAPKIN DESIGNED BY WM. J. FERRIS

(Belfast Municipal Technical Institute)

fell to Louis de Soissons, who won the ^25 prize for archi-
tectural design, and the travelling studentship of £60 offered
for the best design for “An open-air Bath of Architectural
character situated in a Public Park.” Minor prizes in archi-
tecture were awarded to Richard Bertram Ling, Henry Quilter,
Philip Edward Webb, David Wickham Ayre, and Alan Binning.

Mr. Reginald Blomfield, A.R.A., will give four addresses
to the Royal Academy students next month, all dealing with
early French Renaissance architecture. The first address,
“The Italians in France,” will be given on February ist; the
second, “The Master Builders,” on February 4th; the third,
on “ Gaillon and the Royal Buildings,” on February 8th ; and
the fourth, on “ Domestic Architecture to the Death of Francis
the First,” on February nth. These addresses will be followed
by four on sculpture, delivered by Mr. W. R. Colton, A.R.A.,
on February 15th, 18th, 22nd, and 25th. Those on the 15th
and 18th will be “ Preliminary—to the Sculptors of To-morrow.”
On the 22nd, Mr. Colton will speak on “Two Great Sculptors
of Modern Times,” and on the 25th, on “Two Great Sculptors
of Olden Times.” The addresses will in every case commence
at four o’clock, and all exhibitors at last year’s Academy are
entitled to tickets of admission.

The example of bookbinding shown in the illustration accom-
panying these notes (p. 325) is one of the best works of its kind
that have ever been produced by a student of that famous tech-
nical school, the Northampton Polytechnic Institute, St. John
Street, E.C., the Artistic Crafts Department of which is
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directed by Mr. John Williams. At
the Northampton Institute, which is
for professional students only, the
apprentice-bookbinder, who works
in a large shop where there is much
subdivision of labour, is given oppor-
tunities that he might not otherwise
obtain of studying and practising the
refinements of his profession under
Mr. F. Sangorski and Mr. S. Byrnes.
Mr. Sangorski, who is at the head of
the bookbinding classes, is a master
of every branch of his craft, and an
enthusiastic worker who spares him-
self no trouble in helping his stu-
dents and inspiring them to efforts
that may lead them to better things.
The binding of Fitzgerald’s render-
ing of Omar Khayyam’s poem is the
work of Mr. A. H. Bruce. It is
executed in green morocco. The
vine leaves and grapes are inlaid in
leather of lighter green and pale
purple, and the stones used in
the ornamentation of the design
in the centre are lapis-lazuli and
opals.

“ THE SOUTH WIND ” — PANEL IN
PAINTED ENAMEL BY ALICE BRITTAIN
(Belfast Municipal Technical Inst. )