The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1906)

Garden Furniture

SUNDIAL DESIGNED BY W. M. PETRIB

EXECUTED BY THE SCOTTISH
GUILD OF HANDICRAFT, LTD.

GARDEN POT AND PEDESTAL

DESIGNED AND EXECUTED
BY LIBERTY & CO., LTD.

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an ardent lover of all dumb animals, and also
from Coleridge. A garden pump (p. 273) by
Messrs. George Wragge profitably demonstrates
the adaptation of artistic design to an object of
every-day utility.

In the matter of statuary, if it is too often over-

GARDEN POT AND PEDESTAL

DESIGNED BY MRS. G. F. WATTS
EXECUTED BY THE POTTERS' ARTS GUILD

done in private gardens, the latter certainly have
the advantage over public and official sites, inas-
much as, being the property of the individual, they
are not burdened by the claims of the nation's life,
and are not called upon, therefore, to admit
monstrous images of statesmen, ineffectually striv-
ing to cloak the hideous banality of frock coat and
trousers undtr the portentous folds of official
robes. On the contrary, private gardens are, of all