ART IN INDUSTRIAL WORK

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1913, Page 12

ART IN INDUSTRIAL WORK

1 ' <m 11 tn & notice oft ihe exhibition of the Arts and Crafts ■ Exhibition'- .Society in London, the Westminster Gazette Bays : "The general improvement in. design and ornament during the last fifteen ye&ra or co lias been marked and definite, particularly in respect of furniture, textile patterns, domestic decoration, pottery, and silversmith's work. And this improvement has hot been altogether devoid of & character of its own. which, wo think, may even be said to have attained to the dignity <*f a style. But, for the present, there eeeittß to be a pause. The further movement of-ori-ginal design has beeh, for the .moment, checked > by «, hot illogical trend of fashion in the direction of ,old work. "Pepple hay« been taught the beauty of the products of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries— -in furniture, for instance 5 and fashion is -willing to pay any price within its means for, objects belonging to these periods, while it will hardly spare a glance at those' of our own craftsmen. W© think the cloud will pass away, It is ft natural stage in the process of development, Ahd, iiowevev, hard it may be on contemporary designers, there is something to be thankful for in the growth of good taste that ha* made it possible."