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Even the shapes of your containers all play a special part when composingwithin a frame. For instance, a round bowl would be used for a roundtable, an oblong shaped container would be more suitable for a long refectory table. A plinth urn is excellent for the centre of a side table backing a wall,for with nothing else but the background to detract our attention the beautyof the urn can be seen. Small glass goblets are charming and are usuallyin good scale when placed on casual wine tables, filled with delicate flowers. But in all compositions scale is of great importance. I once entered acharming old house, and in the low-ceilinged drawing room I noticed a tallvase filled with a dozen very long stemmed gladioli. They were meant toappear casual, but gladioli with their stiff, straight stems never seem to givethe appearance of being casually placed. They just looked straggly anduntidy, but in this case it was the scale that upset me, for the height andweight of these tall gladioli were all out of proportion for the low-ceilingedroom, which I thought would have looked better decorated with a smallerarrangement, in scale with the height of the room, and made with a smallertype of flower, or, if gladioli were the only ones available then they couldhave been cut down, and some of the lower florets could easily have beenremoved and used as an extra arrangement in a shallow dish on the diningtable. |
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