Studio: international art (55.1912)

Studio-Talk

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STUDIO-TALK.

(From Our Own
Correspondents.)

LONDON.—By the re-
cent deaths of Mrs.
Stanhope Forbes
—A and Mr. J. L.
Pickering, British art has
sustained a loss which must
be sincerely lamented by all
lovers of sound and personal
achievement. Mrs. Stan-
hope Forbes was an artist
with a very dainty and
agreeable fancy, and her work had technical
qualities of the highest kind; her paintings were
always distinguished by a delightful delicacy of
feeling, but they were never wanting in vigorous
directness of statement or in decisiveness of
handling. Mr. Pickering was one of the ablest
and most original of our romanticist painters. He

DESIGN FOR A PRIVATE LAUNDRY

BY G.

MACFARI.ANE

of this kind is in the majority of cases not a press-
ing necessity where land is available for use as a
drying-ground, but under climatic conditions like
those of Britain, where during several months of
the year the air is generally more or less charged
with moisture, and out-
of-doors drying is not
always practicable, such a
room will be found a useful
addition. Where indoor
drying is resorted to as a
regular practice the in-
stalment of a hydro-ex-
tractor is of course a
desideratum, if not a neces-
sity. The residuum of
moisture left after the
washed clothes have been
dealt with by this process
is so small that but
little heat is necessary to
get rid of it through the
louvres or other channels
of ventilation.

DESIGN FOR A PRIVATE LAUNDRY

BY J. TARNEY

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