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KERAMIC STUDIO 
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Design by A. CoSsarcl. 
From Art et Decoration. 
Design by Mile Rouzaud. 
From Art et Decoratii 
Design by M. Benedietus. 
From Art et Decoration. 
Design by MLle Btefvei 
PINE CONE MOTIF 
A French publication, Art et Decoration, a short time 
since published competitive designs for stencil wall decora- 
tions with Pine Cone motif. Many of these designs suggest 
decorative ideas for adaptation to china and for that reason 
we reproduce the best, with a design for a candlestick (page 49) 
made from them, to show how the various motifs can be 
combined and adapted. These stencils are to be carried out 
in two to four tones either in monochrome or polychrome. 
There are two kinds of designs, one in which the orna- 
ment is complete in itself and needs only repetition to produce 
a border. The other style of design is simply a cutting of the 
space and needs a line at top and bottom to complete the 
effect. 
The first style of design is rather preferable, as one can 
usually make really good designs in that way; it needs more 
knowledge of cutting or filling a space to make an agreeable 
design in the other style. 
The design of M. Cossard is to be recommended for sim- 
plicity; that of M. Coquelle is rather less happy in the con- 
ventionalization of the cone and is rather anaemic in color. 
It is unfortunate that the motif of M. Benedietus has not 
been shown in a repeat, as it would gain much in that way. 
The conventionalization of the Pine needles by Mile 
Rouzaud is rather a far call, nevertheless the design is very 
attractive. The same criticism applies to the design by Mile 
Fiefvez which is very interesting but has an unfinished feeling. 
The border of Mile Brunnschweiler has a delightfully 
"open air" effect and would be particularly appropriate as a 
decoration for a summer cottage in the pines. M. Burnot has 
made a quaint suggestion of moonlit pines which might be 
developed pleasingly in many ways, using either the cone and 
needles or the entire tree. M. Mirabert's idea for pine cone 
decoration would work out well in an all over pattern in gold 
or monochrome. The design of M. Walter is rather more 
ordinary than the others. 
Those who have the opportunity of making a study of 
various kinds of pines will find in them an inspiration ; 
not only the cone and needle, but the tree itself, are extremely 
decorative and easily adapted to various forms. They can, more- 
over, be expressed in various mediums. 
For color schemes we suggest a ground of light green 
lustre, the needles in dark green, the cones in brown with out- 
lines in gold. 
