DOI issue:
No. 390 (September 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0188
NEW FOREST
" WIND." SIDE OF PAINTED LINEN
TRIPTYCH FOR A MUSIC LIBRARY
BY MAXWELL ARMFIELD
(New Forest Group)
NEW FOREST.—For the purpose of
arousing and stimulating local interest
in architecture and its related crafts,
a group of architects and craftsmen,
resident in or associated with the New
Forest and its environs, was formed in
1924. The first step was the organising
of a co-operative exhibition at the Mansard
Galleries, Sept.—Oct., 1925, which was
to be unified by a definite idea, namely,
Art in the Library. Eight types of
libraries were chosen, of special interest
to residents in the New Forest area :
a New Forest Library, Seafaring (for
Yacht or Liner), Children's, Village Hall,
School or College, Music, Garden, and
in view of the local interest in prison
reform, a Prison Library was added.
A colour scheme was planned for each
room, and the workers agreed to keep in
mind the needs of the different libraries,
whether for mural decoration (Maxwell
Armfield); stained glass (M. Lowndes, of
182
Lowndes and Drury, to whom was en-
trusted the restoration of the glass in
Salisbury Cathedral) ; illuminations (Isabel
Saul and Fanny Price) ; furniture (Rom-
ney Green and H. C. Robinson) ; leather
(Mrs. Porter and Miss Walker) ; em-
broideries (Constance Smedley and Miss
Wray) ; basketry (Miss Geraldine Lewis),
or textiles (Mr. and Mrs. Parker, of the
Forest Looms). Heywood Sumner's
beautiful illustrated books, coloured maps,
and archaeological drawings of pottery,
form the chief exhibit in the New Forest
Library. 0000a
The primary purpose of the exhibition
was, however, to arouse a healthy interest
in architecture. A record of the local
architecture by the etchers and water-
colour artists of unified size and framing,
was therefore attempted ; and the four
Schools of Art in the Forest outposts of
Bournemouth, Salisbury, Southampton and
Winchester, were approached, with a view
"PERCUSSION." SIDE OF PAINTED
LINEN TRIPTYCH FOR A MUSIC
LIBRARY. BY MAXWELL ARMFIELD
(New Forest Group)
" WIND." SIDE OF PAINTED LINEN
TRIPTYCH FOR A MUSIC LIBRARY
BY MAXWELL ARMFIELD
(New Forest Group)
NEW FOREST.—For the purpose of
arousing and stimulating local interest
in architecture and its related crafts,
a group of architects and craftsmen,
resident in or associated with the New
Forest and its environs, was formed in
1924. The first step was the organising
of a co-operative exhibition at the Mansard
Galleries, Sept.—Oct., 1925, which was
to be unified by a definite idea, namely,
Art in the Library. Eight types of
libraries were chosen, of special interest
to residents in the New Forest area :
a New Forest Library, Seafaring (for
Yacht or Liner), Children's, Village Hall,
School or College, Music, Garden, and
in view of the local interest in prison
reform, a Prison Library was added.
A colour scheme was planned for each
room, and the workers agreed to keep in
mind the needs of the different libraries,
whether for mural decoration (Maxwell
Armfield); stained glass (M. Lowndes, of
182
Lowndes and Drury, to whom was en-
trusted the restoration of the glass in
Salisbury Cathedral) ; illuminations (Isabel
Saul and Fanny Price) ; furniture (Rom-
ney Green and H. C. Robinson) ; leather
(Mrs. Porter and Miss Walker) ; em-
broideries (Constance Smedley and Miss
Wray) ; basketry (Miss Geraldine Lewis),
or textiles (Mr. and Mrs. Parker, of the
Forest Looms). Heywood Sumner's
beautiful illustrated books, coloured maps,
and archaeological drawings of pottery,
form the chief exhibit in the New Forest
Library. 0000a
The primary purpose of the exhibition
was, however, to arouse a healthy interest
in architecture. A record of the local
architecture by the etchers and water-
colour artists of unified size and framing,
was therefore attempted ; and the four
Schools of Art in the Forest outposts of
Bournemouth, Salisbury, Southampton and
Winchester, were approached, with a view
"PERCUSSION." SIDE OF PAINTED
LINEN TRIPTYCH FOR A MUSIC
LIBRARY. BY MAXWELL ARMFIELD
(New Forest Group)