Our 23rd Competition

Progress, Volume X, Issue 3, 1 November 1914, Page 105

Our 23rd Competition

FOR SIDEBOARD Won by Horace L. Massey, Auckland (“ Quid ”) By an unfortunate oversight the designs for this competition were overlooked, consequently no result has been announced. There were, however only three designs sent in, viz : —“Pyramus,” by Keith D. Murray, with Messrs. Wilson & Moodie, Auckland; “Quid,” By Horace L. Massey, with Mr. A. Wiseman, Auckland; and “Hardup,” by A. B. Miller, with Mr. Cecil Trevithick A.R.1.8.A., Auckland

ably for the display of old china, and if the protection of doors is required these should be glazed. Trellis doors may be used with good effect when a silk hanging is drawn inside. The square corners to door panels of side cupboards are rather large. The cupboard doors should shut into a rebate at the bottom and not merely against a fillet. The other two designs by “Hardup” and “Pyramus” are indifferent versions of sideboards we have seen before and display no originality. The drawing, too, is not good. “Pyramus” surely would not make a sideboard of oak and then stain it dark walnut with one coat shellac and two coats “flat finish” on top? W. M. PAGE.”

The judge, Mr. W. M. Page, who kindly set this subject, reports as follows : “I have to apologise for the delay in judging this competition. The drawings were put aside and overlooked. Only three students submitted designs for a sideboard which serves to show that comparatively little interest is yet taken in the designing of furniture. I have no hesitation in awarding first place to “Quid.” This sideboard would be quite a delightful piece of furniture, and the only criticisms I would offer are as follows: The trellis doors to the china cupboards seem to me rather unnecessary. The cupboards are presum-