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Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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olor variety—the bro-cade patterns in veryancient tiles. E\ en whenhe wishes to tell a story,and introduces humanfigures, there is no dis-tinct pictorial present-ment of his theme, butrather a beautiful mosaic dec-oration, without a hint of perspective to bringing the conventional method of fashioning tiles the eye from the imaginative to a more realisticIrom a die pressed by a machine, which showed conclusion. The pieces of clay that form thea hard uninteresting surface, they have revived mosaic are not the tiny bits that the craftsmen ofthe early, more primitive way of modelling the mediaeval days used, but are boldly modelleddesign by hand, and these molds have a plastic slabs with their outlines and design defined byquality—a marked individuality of their own— the cement in which they are set.which only the freedom and spontaneity of the One feels, first of all, in viewing one of Mr. human touch can produce. Color has also been Mercers imaginative decorations, the thing as a
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WALL PANEL A BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN FROM THE GRUEBY WORKS seventy-six march 1922 mceRnAcionAL

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