ABSTRACT
Hugh Hutton Stannus was a pupil at the Sheffield School of Art. Stannus had a particular interest in metalwork design and especially ironwork, in which he seems to have been successful. Stannus became a lecturer on applied art at the National Art School, in South Kensington. Stannus was also one-time chief assistant to upholsterer and decorator Leonard Collmann, who was also a friend of Alfred Stevens. Stannus designed a piano for Collmann that was displayed at the 1871 International Exhibition. The two Branches of any treatise on Applied Art are: the Elements, and the Principles which govern the application of those elements. In Form-design the artist considers the design for the intended object, after the general conditions have been formulated according to the requirements of Fitness; and, always subject to these Conditions, he adds, according to his artistic individuality or “taste”, such further qualities as—Variety in the Mass-form, and Proportion of parts to each other and to the whole object.
