The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1906)

Garden Furniture

designer's hand-gate (p. 250), must, of course, be
chosen. It should be noted, by the way, that the
iron half-hoop arching over the oak door last
mentioned is intended as a frame over which

bikd bath and pedestal

designed and executed by
the potters' arts guild

open bars with fencing to match, the latter raised on
a low wall finished with rough-cast cement. Another
design (p. 252)—this arranged by Mr. Mawson
—represents a picturesque partition, formed of an
oak trellis screen running between brick pillars
at regular intervals. This device, as also another

garden fountain

designed and executed
by liberty & co., ltd.

creepers may be trained. Wooden gates like the
above specimens may not possess any specious
attractiveness, being, as
they are, remarkably
plain; but it is this very
plainness, added to good
proportions and sound
construction, that is of

the greatest value in all / \ / ^"WUI

such-like architectural )
objects, and far excels f( I /

the showy self-assertion V^. - /

of other and more < /

elaborate designs. ^"8^~~.

Another illustration (p.
2 so) shows the strikine;

j ' & garden fountain designed by a. e. pearce

effect of an oak gate ot in terra-cotta executed by doulton & co., ltd., lambeth