The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1906)

Furniture

WRITING CABINET IN OAK DESIGNED BY

C. F. A. VOYSEY

Ashbee's design, a writing-cabinet (p. 62) in
ebony, decorated with white hollywood, lacquered
ironwork and scarlet, the latter introduced in the

SCREEN IN MAHOGANY DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY
WYLIE & LOCHHEAD, LTD.

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form of leather mounts to the metal fittings and in
the crouching lions on which the main supports
rest. The whole forms a striking conjunction of
colour, the richer by contrast to the simple recti-
linear outline of the cabinet itself. An equally
severe motif appears in the writing-table (p. 66),
a modification of the ordinary library-table, designed
and executed by the same hands as the last-named
example. In this instance the table is of grey oak
with inlay in green and white.

The oak writing cabinet on this page, designed by

WHITE ENAMEL DESIGNED BY E. A. TAYLOR

CABINET EXECUTED BY

WYLIE & LOCHHEAD, LTD.

Mr. Voysey, is fashioned on the simplest lines. The
metal hinge, beaten and pierced with that character-
istic type of design in which Mr. Voysey remains
unsurpassed, forms a beautiful ornament to the
centre of the flap, and at the same time happily
contrasts with the severity of construction and
dignified proportions of the woodwork itself.

Messrs. Hamptons' mahogany bureau (p. 64)
and writing-table (p. 63), as also Messrs. Bartholo-
mew & Fletcher's bureau in walnut wood (p. 65),
are, practically, adaptations of familiar Queen Anne
or Chippendale style; while Messrs. Shapland &