The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1906)

Furniture

doors with delicate wood tracery of eighteenth-
century character. A modern development, analo-
gous to this usage, is to introduce lead glazing for
the like purpose; but that not always wisely nor with
satisfactory effect. Because the sole purpose for
which the doors of cabinets are glazed at all—viz.,
for displaying their contents—is defeated unless
the leading be extremely simple and very sparingly
used. Stained glass placed in such situations is
really indefensible, except indeed in the form of

BOOKCASE designed and executed by bureau in walnut designed and executed by

in walnut hampton & sons, ltd. bartholomew & fletcher

Mr. G. Llewellyn Morris,
executed in mahogany,
with box and rosewood
inlay, is an adaptation of
Chippendale style. Mr.
Taylor's cabinet (p. 68), by
Messrs. Wylie & Lochhead,
is enamelled white, the
solid panels in the middle
having a simple design of
inlay.

It may be remarked
that several of the above
cabinets, notably Mr.
Llewellyn Morris' and two

of Messrs. Hampton's (pp. writing-table in walnut designed and executed

by ernest w. gimson
65

58 and 59), have glazed