Studio: international art (49.1910)

The Arts and Crafts Society’s Exhibition

INLAID MAHOGANY WARDROBE DESIGNED BY AMBROSE HEAL

EXECUTED BY HEAL & SON

have been a special object
of the designer. Simplicity
has been carried too far by
Mr. Ernest W. Gimson in
his chest of drawers in
English oak, which is little
more than a plain box of
heavy wood with ugly
wooden handles. Mr. Gim-
son’s design is seen to greater
advantage in the attractive
ebony and walnut cabinet
executed by Mr. Henry
Davoll. There is nothing
better among the furniture
than Mr. John Brandt’s
cabinet in ebony and satin-
wood, which has already
been seen at the exhibition
held in the summer at the
Central School of Arts and
Crafts. Admirable also is a
small music cabinet by the
same able craftsman. Other
good pieces of cabinet!work
in the North Room are

fender, made by Mr. W.
Thornton and Mr. C. Downer,
and exhibited by the Guild of
Handicraft. In the Central
Hall, too, among many other
things of interest should be
noticed the coloured plaster
overmantel, The Christ Child.,
by Mr. G. A. Williams (page
34), pleasant in its general
harmony ; the bronze fire-dogs,
shown by Mrs. Gertrude Dale;
the angels’ heads in coloured
plaster, by Mr. Gilbert Bayes
(January No., p.301); andacase
of silver by Mr. C. R. Ashbee.
Stained glass is poorly repre-
sented at the exhibition, and
the few pieces shown are placed
where they cannot by any possi-
bility be seen to advantage.

The furniture is displayed in
the North Room. There are
several handsome and imposing
pieces executed by Messrs.
Morris & Co., and planned by
Mr. W. A. S. Benson, in which
harmony of colour seems to

INLAID OAK WARDROBE DESIGNED BY

EXECUTED BY HEAL & SON

AMBROSE HEAL

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