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The Studio yearbook of decorative art — 1906

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On the interior arrangement and decoration of the house
DOI Artikel:
Door furniture and other fittings
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Door Furniture and other Fittings

set of door furniture consists of
Messrs. Collins & Co.'s lock-plate and
letter-box plite in modelled and cast
bronze (p. 178), with effectively treated
foliage ornament at the extremities and
corners. The round-topped mortise
handle is also designed to be in
keeping.

Messrs. Jesson, Birkett & Co.'s five
examples of metal door knockers
(opposite), on a small scale, are intended
for bedroom doors.

Mr. C F. A. Voysey, always a

door knockers designed and executed by ...

jesson, birkett & co., ltd. thoughtful and original designer, some-
times imparts peculiar attractiveness
to his ornament by the introduction
cabinets (pp. 178 and 182), one among which is of animate forms. Thus, in one of his two
based on the outline of the Luckenbooth quaint door-latches in wrought-iron (p. 181) is the
brooch. grotesque profile of a human head ; and in the

Two grip handles (p. 179) are in bronze, and hinge (p. 182) a group of figures, besides a lamb,
two door knockers (p. 182), the one in bronze all in pierced metal, is introduced. But for the
from an old modelled pattern, and the other of human interest attaching to this composition, it
picturesque form in malleable iron, follow. might be almost too large and heavy for its

Next are two fingerplates (p. 178) with oval- position,
headed mortise handles by Messrs. Thomas Lastly, some very quaint but simple latches,
Brawn & Co., and another finger-plate (p. 178) by bolts and knockers in oak (below), designed by
Messrs. Davidson, the design founded on the Mr. Arthur Haward, illustrate the adaptation of
forms of the honesty seed-pods. A more elaborate Swiss models for use in English homes.

designed by arthur haward
door furniture in oak executed by jas. a. haward & sons

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