ABSTRACT
John Dibblee Crace was a member of a family of prominent British interior designers who provided decorative schemes for the Royal family and other houses, as well as the British Museum, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy. In 1908 he was the recipient at the hands of Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema of the Gold Medal of the Institute of British Decorators, of which he had been the founder and first president. He was also passionate about encouraging education on the technical side of decorative art, and took an active part in founding travelling studentships. But there is another point in the arrangement of the colour-scheme which has in every case to be borne in mind; and which presents, indeed, the great difficulty in decoration more particularly to those artists whose practice and experience lie in the painting of detached pictures.
