DOI Heft:
No. 337 (April 1921)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21392#0177
STUDIO-TALK
COAT OF ARMS IN BRONZE
RELIEF, WITH ENAMELS IN
HERALDIC COLOURS. EXECUTED
FOR MESSRS. KEILLER AND
SONS, GLASGOW, BY THE BIR-
MINGHAM GUILD
with the object of maintaining and foster-
ing a high standard of workmanship and
design in metal, and beginning operations
with a small staff of not more than twenty
workers, now enlists the services of more
than 300 skilled workers discharging
various functions—designers, modellers,
chasers and engravers, casters, fitters,
enamellers, etc., many of whom are
shareholders in the concern, which is
conducted as a limited liability company.
During the quarter of a century since
its establishment the Guild has carried
out a great deal of architectural metal
work for London architects in connection
with important building undertakings.
It will be readily understood that the
conditions which have arisen during the
past three or four years through Govern-
ment restrictions and economic causes,
involving as they do an interdict on the
erection of buildings of sufficient size
and importance to justify the inclusion of
any considerable amount of metal work,
have made it very difficult to maintain
an organized body of skilled craftsmen
such as that which forms the personnel
of the Birmingham Guild, and there is
a very real danger of men who have
undergone a long training in this special
type of work drifting into other occupa-
tions. As some set off to this adverse
state of things the Guild has been able
to utilize the skill of its technical staff in
the execution of numerous memorials.
It has made something of a speciality of
bronze tablets, which, devoid of fussy
ornamentation, command attention by
their dignified lettering of easily legible
kinds, like the example reproduced on
page 162 and others illustrated on a
former occasion. 000a
A more complicated piece of work exe-
cuted by the Guild is the ship shown on
page 160. This is throughout of bronze, the
waves being modelled and cast and the rest
made of wrought bronze. The ship is
about three feet high and forms the top
part of the memorial made by the Guild for
the White Star Shipping Company, and
PAIR OF GLAZED BRONZE
SCREEN DOORS FOR MR. BENE-
DUM'S HOUSE, CLEVELAND,
OHIO. EXECUTED BY THE BIR-
MINGHAM GUILD
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COAT OF ARMS IN BRONZE
RELIEF, WITH ENAMELS IN
HERALDIC COLOURS. EXECUTED
FOR MESSRS. KEILLER AND
SONS, GLASGOW, BY THE BIR-
MINGHAM GUILD
with the object of maintaining and foster-
ing a high standard of workmanship and
design in metal, and beginning operations
with a small staff of not more than twenty
workers, now enlists the services of more
than 300 skilled workers discharging
various functions—designers, modellers,
chasers and engravers, casters, fitters,
enamellers, etc., many of whom are
shareholders in the concern, which is
conducted as a limited liability company.
During the quarter of a century since
its establishment the Guild has carried
out a great deal of architectural metal
work for London architects in connection
with important building undertakings.
It will be readily understood that the
conditions which have arisen during the
past three or four years through Govern-
ment restrictions and economic causes,
involving as they do an interdict on the
erection of buildings of sufficient size
and importance to justify the inclusion of
any considerable amount of metal work,
have made it very difficult to maintain
an organized body of skilled craftsmen
such as that which forms the personnel
of the Birmingham Guild, and there is
a very real danger of men who have
undergone a long training in this special
type of work drifting into other occupa-
tions. As some set off to this adverse
state of things the Guild has been able
to utilize the skill of its technical staff in
the execution of numerous memorials.
It has made something of a speciality of
bronze tablets, which, devoid of fussy
ornamentation, command attention by
their dignified lettering of easily legible
kinds, like the example reproduced on
page 162 and others illustrated on a
former occasion. 000a
A more complicated piece of work exe-
cuted by the Guild is the ship shown on
page 160. This is throughout of bronze, the
waves being modelled and cast and the rest
made of wrought bronze. The ship is
about three feet high and forms the top
part of the memorial made by the Guild for
the White Star Shipping Company, and
PAIR OF GLAZED BRONZE
SCREEN DOORS FOR MR. BENE-
DUM'S HOUSE, CLEVELAND,
OHIO. EXECUTED BY THE BIR-
MINGHAM GUILD
l6l