DOI Heft:
No. 391 (October 1925)
DOI Artikel:Some furnishing and decorative schemes at Messrs. Liberty's
DOI Artikel:Mr. Bernard Eyre Walker, A. R. E.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0243
LIBERTY'S FURNISHING SCHEMES—BERNARD EYRE WALKER
"bideford by night"
a quatintby bernard
eyre walker a.r.e.
The larger drawing on the same page
shows a very interesting and successful
experiment in walling—the panels being
executed in dark red sheepskin with dark
brown bands secured with bronze
studs, a 0 a a a a
On page 234 we illustrate a most charm-
ing and restful bedroom in English oak,
the spaces between the half-timbered work
having an antique plaster surface. The
fireplace consists of a very simple arched
stone face, the interior being lined with
Danehill bricks. 0000
To walk through these specimen rooms
is to be aware of a guiding principle of
discriminating research, controlling all the
activities of this firm's designers. In no
department of life can tradition be entirely
dispensed with, yet in no sphere should it
be allowed to take an undue prominence.
This, after all, is only another way of
stating the formula of evolution which
nature herself applies to organic life ; she
teaches the lesson that a thing which has
outlived its utility must gradually be dis-
pensed with and give place to something
else—a lesson very salutary for furniture-
designers. H. B. G.
MR. BERNARD EYRE WALKER,
A.R.E. 00000
IT is always interesting to trace the
formative influences in the training and
development of an artist. By the choice
of etching as his means of expression, Mr.
Bernard Eyre Walker escaped some of the
dangers of a family plagiarism, while
benefiting by the long experience of his
father, who has been for many years a
prominent member of the Royal Water-
Colour Society. At the outset of his
career as an etcher he studied for a short
time with the late G. M. Synge, and since
then has been his own teacher. Thus it
happens that his work does not exhibit the
characteristics of any special school. 0
Although hardly a quarter of Mr. Eyre
Walker's plates have been published, they
show unusual variety. He admits that even
fewer plates would have been before the
public had he been free to choose. A
critical and sensitive disposition is ex-
pressed in close observation, a strong
sympathy with the thing seen, and a
studious avoidance of negligent or reckless
treatment. Thus what his work lacks in
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"bideford by night"
a quatintby bernard
eyre walker a.r.e.
The larger drawing on the same page
shows a very interesting and successful
experiment in walling—the panels being
executed in dark red sheepskin with dark
brown bands secured with bronze
studs, a 0 a a a a
On page 234 we illustrate a most charm-
ing and restful bedroom in English oak,
the spaces between the half-timbered work
having an antique plaster surface. The
fireplace consists of a very simple arched
stone face, the interior being lined with
Danehill bricks. 0000
To walk through these specimen rooms
is to be aware of a guiding principle of
discriminating research, controlling all the
activities of this firm's designers. In no
department of life can tradition be entirely
dispensed with, yet in no sphere should it
be allowed to take an undue prominence.
This, after all, is only another way of
stating the formula of evolution which
nature herself applies to organic life ; she
teaches the lesson that a thing which has
outlived its utility must gradually be dis-
pensed with and give place to something
else—a lesson very salutary for furniture-
designers. H. B. G.
MR. BERNARD EYRE WALKER,
A.R.E. 00000
IT is always interesting to trace the
formative influences in the training and
development of an artist. By the choice
of etching as his means of expression, Mr.
Bernard Eyre Walker escaped some of the
dangers of a family plagiarism, while
benefiting by the long experience of his
father, who has been for many years a
prominent member of the Royal Water-
Colour Society. At the outset of his
career as an etcher he studied for a short
time with the late G. M. Synge, and since
then has been his own teacher. Thus it
happens that his work does not exhibit the
characteristics of any special school. 0
Although hardly a quarter of Mr. Eyre
Walker's plates have been published, they
show unusual variety. He admits that even
fewer plates would have been before the
public had he been free to choose. A
critical and sensitive disposition is ex-
pressed in close observation, a strong
sympathy with the thing seen, and a
studious avoidance of negligent or reckless
treatment. Thus what his work lacks in
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