. International studio. walls ofwhich are treated with warm, umber-toned plasterbetween dark brown-stained strips of wood, thescheme designed to recall the interiors of theold magpie-houses of Cheshire. Another illustration gives a glimpse of aninteresting hall, with tile floor and carved window-boxes. The centre panel, with its Shakesperian quo-tation of welcome, gives a quaint rendering ofthe house itself, and a foretaste, as well, of themany symbolic bits of woodcarving in the roomsbeyond. On the same page is a detail whichrealises to a remarkable degree the old WilliamMorris creed of beaut
. International studio. walls ofwhich are treated with warm, umber-toned plasterbetween dark brown-stained strips of wood, thescheme designed to recall the interiors of theold magpie-houses of Cheshire. Another illustration gives a glimpse of aninteresting hall, with tile floor and carved window-boxes. The centre panel, with its Shakesperian quo-tation of welcome, gives a quaint rendering ofthe house itself, and a foretaste, as well, of themany symbolic bits of woodcarving in the roomsbeyond. On the same page is a detail whichrealises to a remarkable degree the old WilliamMorris creed of beautifying the utilitarian thingsof life. It is, in point of fact, the door to an ice-box, but its picturesque approach and fanciful guise might lead, if imagination beckoned, to atreasure-room or the bower of an imprisonedprincess. Generally unrealised possibilities in decorativeplaster-work are seen in the sitting-room which isshown in the last illustration. The figures sym-bolise the sun, the moon, wind, thunder and the. A BIT OF DETAIL FROMA LIVING-ROOM DESIGNED AND E>BY A. J. NORRIS Craftsmanship, Art and the Person at Equation
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