International studio . ud. The quaint, original,imaginative compositions with which he has illus-trated Le Sire de Stretlingen, by M. DanielBaud-Bovy, are among his most recent contribu-tions to the art of the book in this country. But to form an adequate idea of the artist andhis achievement one must visit him in his delight-ful apartment, in the neighbourhood of the one is at once transported to a quiet placewhere there seems to be large leisure and long,silent hours for the maturing and executing ofbeautiful design. Right in the heart of a modernbuilding, one steps into a suite of
International studio . ud. The quaint, original,imaginative compositions with which he has illus-trated Le Sire de Stretlingen, by M. DanielBaud-Bovy, are among his most recent contribu-tions to the art of the book in this country. But to form an adequate idea of the artist andhis achievement one must visit him in his delight-ful apartment, in the neighbourhood of the one is at once transported to a quiet placewhere there seems to be large leisure and long,silent hours for the maturing and executing ofbeautiful design. Right in the heart of a modernbuilding, one steps into a suite of rooms so adornedby the artists hand that they breathe as it werethe spirit and traditions of a golden age in the the spacious windows a glorious view of themountains breaks upon the sight, and within onwall, door-panel, furniture, and in rich portfolio aquaint, rare, and beautiful art has evoked anenchanted world. M. Reuter has always considered work done inhis leisure hours, for his delectation, and in many. TAINTED TAPESTRY WALL-HANGING BY EDMOND G. REUTER Edniond G. Renter disposed to fill the panel. Here is a beautifullypainted tapestry representing the Geneva of thepast, a walled and turreted little city seated upona hill, with the lake and mountains in the back-ground, the whole framed in ornamental borderswith Gothic scrolls and the arms and motto of thecity. Post ienebras lux. Amongst other things ofgreat interest are examples of the artists achieve-ments in the practice of illumination, and one is notsurprised that they should have elicited WilliamMorriss praise—they are things of beauty. As hasalready been said in The Studio, the meansM. Reuter employs are simple enough, to wit,ordinary water-colours, with Chinese whitefor the first coats : while the gilding is of gold-leaflaid over a preparation of the artists own Gothic lettering is executed with a pen madeof a reed gathered in the I-ake of Geneva; thepaper used is either papier Ing
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