DOI Artikel:
On the interior arrangement and decoration of the house
DOI Artikel:Wall and ceiling decoration
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19423#0130
Wall and Ceiling Decoration
happen just now to be much in favour. The Hayward & Son's " Coniston " design (below) sten-
principles which govern Mr. Neatby's decorative cilled partly in wash-tints and partly painted in
landscape work—two of whose compositions for body colour; Messrs. Liberty's " Dutch Landscape "
the purpose are reproduced in colour opposite— (below) introducing such characteristic features as
have been already set forth (p. 48). But if such canal and windmill; and another (p. 118) by Messrs.
restrictions and precautions are necessary in Goodyer, with trees and a stencil effect behind
the case of single panels, how far more stringent them of reflection on the surface of water,
are the limitations of landscape compositions em- In the case of floral designs it is a common
ployed for the purposes of a recurring pattern practice among wall-paper artists to provide both
multiplied all round a room ! Difficulty enough frieze and filling to go together in one consecutive
is experienced in suiting a landscape for reduplica- theme. But it is a moot question, even in dealing
tion in the form of a frieze band, but to deal satis- with such simple elements as floral or abstract
factorily with the same features in a latitudinal moiifs, whether, instead of occupying the whole
and longitudinal repeat for a filling is next to surface with ornament, it is not more effective, as
impossible. argued above (p. jo) on the subject of proportions
For this reason it is desirable, for hanging under- to contrast patterned friezes with plain fillings, and
neath a landscape frieze, to select a filling whose vice versa.
motif contrasts with the former, or, better still Considerable experience and judgment have
perhaps, a filling of patternless self colour. The need to be exercised if the use of two patterns
"Lancelot" decoration (p. 113), designed by Mr. on one and the same wall is not to produce a
Neatby for Messrs. Jeffrey, is a case in point. It result the reverse of satisfactory. The late William
comprises a decorative landscape frieze, but no Morris, indeed, to whom wall-paper art owes an
pretence has been made of introducing any other incalculable debt, was so keenly sensible of the
than floral and purely abstract forms in the filling, aesthetic hazards attendant on the practice that he
Other examples of landscape friezes are Messrs. never would cater to a demand for friezes; and of
the "coniston" stencilled frieze designed and executed by hayward & son
the "dutch landscape " stencilled frieze
114
designed and executed by liberty & co., ltd.
happen just now to be much in favour. The Hayward & Son's " Coniston " design (below) sten-
principles which govern Mr. Neatby's decorative cilled partly in wash-tints and partly painted in
landscape work—two of whose compositions for body colour; Messrs. Liberty's " Dutch Landscape "
the purpose are reproduced in colour opposite— (below) introducing such characteristic features as
have been already set forth (p. 48). But if such canal and windmill; and another (p. 118) by Messrs.
restrictions and precautions are necessary in Goodyer, with trees and a stencil effect behind
the case of single panels, how far more stringent them of reflection on the surface of water,
are the limitations of landscape compositions em- In the case of floral designs it is a common
ployed for the purposes of a recurring pattern practice among wall-paper artists to provide both
multiplied all round a room ! Difficulty enough frieze and filling to go together in one consecutive
is experienced in suiting a landscape for reduplica- theme. But it is a moot question, even in dealing
tion in the form of a frieze band, but to deal satis- with such simple elements as floral or abstract
factorily with the same features in a latitudinal moiifs, whether, instead of occupying the whole
and longitudinal repeat for a filling is next to surface with ornament, it is not more effective, as
impossible. argued above (p. jo) on the subject of proportions
For this reason it is desirable, for hanging under- to contrast patterned friezes with plain fillings, and
neath a landscape frieze, to select a filling whose vice versa.
motif contrasts with the former, or, better still Considerable experience and judgment have
perhaps, a filling of patternless self colour. The need to be exercised if the use of two patterns
"Lancelot" decoration (p. 113), designed by Mr. on one and the same wall is not to produce a
Neatby for Messrs. Jeffrey, is a case in point. It result the reverse of satisfactory. The late William
comprises a decorative landscape frieze, but no Morris, indeed, to whom wall-paper art owes an
pretence has been made of introducing any other incalculable debt, was so keenly sensible of the
than floral and purely abstract forms in the filling, aesthetic hazards attendant on the practice that he
Other examples of landscape friezes are Messrs. never would cater to a demand for friezes; and of
the "coniston" stencilled frieze designed and executed by hayward & son
the "dutch landscape " stencilled frieze
114
designed and executed by liberty & co., ltd.