Identifier: studiointernatio51lond (find matches)
Title: Studio international
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: London, Cory, Adams & Mackay (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rangements being very bad, it had there-fore to be entirely reconstructed. Considerableuse has been made of aluminium for the framesof the glass, the gasstoves, and other pur-poses. Every availablespace has been utilised;the doors of the wall-cup-boards open on b othsides, all the shelves aremovable, and the workexceedingly well done.The reception roomshown on the oppositepage was designed for Wiener Mode at anexhibition of fashionsheld in Vienna sometime ago. The interiorof a poulterers shop isextremely refreshing,everything is delightfullyexpressive of its purpose.The mosaic frieze de-signed by Hubert vonZwickle is a charming ornament of fine decorative effect. The wallsare of white tiles, the counter ot white marble,the floor of grey and white tiles, everythingwashable, which is as it should be, consideringits purpose. The shop - front of a potterydepot (above) is on the famous Ringstrasse, andis highly attractive with its broad, flat columnsof deep emerald green fayence on a white
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INTERIOR OK A TAILOR S SHOP PRO rSCHER 157 Studio- Talk surface, quite in harmony with the nature ofthe business. The art of wood engraving has few more ardentdisciples than Ur. Rudolf Junk, an example ofwhose work is given in the coloured reproductionon the opposite page. It is a subject in which hehas aimed at no complex effects, and in fact lie hasemployed no more than four tints in producingthe final result. This simplification is characteristicof the artists wood-cuts, and is in accord withthe traditions of the art as practised in Europe.An interesting specimen of Dr. Junks craftmanshipis a little book, Der kluge Knecht—a biblio-graphical gem in which both illustrations andletterpress are cut in wood in the ancient style;and another volume, a book of sonnets, is atpresent being produced by him in the same way.It may be mentioned that Dr. Junk is very near-sighted, so that every thing at a little distanceappears to him like a cloudy mist from which thevarying tones gradually eme

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