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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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re is a gallery of modern paintings by dif-ferent hands; a chapel contains an altar richin mosaics and windows of stained glass.The Hall is notable for many things beside hiscollections and art library. Water flowing byopen channels through a central drawingroomon the ground floor supplies a fountain; it isa room filled with growing flowers. Flowersaliound on the terrace overlooking Cold SpringHarbour; windows of lustre and opalescentglass from the glass kilns at Corona decoratethe reading room on the same floor. Else-where one finds a famous collection of Japa-nese swordguards and other objects that speakfor the arts of China and Byzantium, Indiaand Persia. It is an old house, is LaureltonHall; it has grown by accretions of wings,terraces, hot-houses, porches; not old enoughto be venerable, yet offering evidence of hav-ing been the home of a family and only en-larged to meet the needs of an artist—and in-cidentally a great lover of flowers and a col- J Laurelton Studios: A New Idea
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SOUTH FACADE, LAURELTON lector of objects of art. From the Hall asthe centre it is but a short walk to the studio^-the picture gallery, ^he chapel, the woods.he water, while the village, or call it thetownlet of Oyster Bay is fifteen minutes d.s-tant by automobile. So far there has been little or no employ-ment of the model in the studios because itwas found that the schools in which they weretrained had rather overdone this feature forthe students, indeed had starved them of n-ture work in landscape, the painting of fiow-ers, the decorative treatment of natural formThe sculptors especially have found here anexceptional place for working out decorativeproblems from nature instead of followin..the_ hackneyed path of plaster cast and bodydesigns. There has been some original workdone in designs for jewelrv. a jeweler and sHver workers shop having been outfitted forthe purpose. . Saturday afternoon has been set apart forvisitors and in time it is proposed to hold inNew York small exhibit

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