DOI issue:
No. 391 (October 1925)
DOI article:Some furnishing and decorative schemes at Messrs. Liberty's
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0240
LIBERTY'S FURNISHING SCHEMES
HALF-TIMBERED ATTIC BEDROOM IN ENGLISH
OAK,SHOWING TUDOR INFLUENCE. BY LIBERTY
AND CO. DRAWING BY HAROLD WHITE
based on traditional lines, and yet have a greyish blue, and an optimistic bright-
a distinct modern feeling. Instead of ness is obtained by the use of colour
slavishly copying the antique or the on the moulding and piercings. The frieze
foreign, the designers have been content is founded upon Russian designs, and be-
to take a motive from early or exotic work, trays the Persian influence. 0 0
and adapt it to modern and British tastes The small illustration on page 233 shows
and requirements. 0000 how an intelligent adaptation can be made
The room represented in our colour- from Jacobean oak styles, without repro-
plate, for example, owes its general scheme ducing the actual forms. The wallpaper
to the inspiration of North European was designed many years ago in Messrs.
peasant houses. The furniture and fixed Liberty's studios, from a bordering to
woodwork are of Virginia spruce, stained one of the tapestries in Haddon Hall. ^
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HALF-TIMBERED ATTIC BEDROOM IN ENGLISH
OAK,SHOWING TUDOR INFLUENCE. BY LIBERTY
AND CO. DRAWING BY HAROLD WHITE
based on traditional lines, and yet have a greyish blue, and an optimistic bright-
a distinct modern feeling. Instead of ness is obtained by the use of colour
slavishly copying the antique or the on the moulding and piercings. The frieze
foreign, the designers have been content is founded upon Russian designs, and be-
to take a motive from early or exotic work, trays the Persian influence. 0 0
and adapt it to modern and British tastes The small illustration on page 233 shows
and requirements. 0000 how an intelligent adaptation can be made
The room represented in our colour- from Jacobean oak styles, without repro-
plate, for example, owes its general scheme ducing the actual forms. The wallpaper
to the inspiration of North European was designed many years ago in Messrs.
peasant houses. The furniture and fixed Liberty's studios, from a bordering to
woodwork are of Virginia spruce, stained one of the tapestries in Haddon Hall. ^
234