DOI issue:
Nr. 105 (November, 1905)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26961#0094
Studio-Talk
JEWELLERY DESIGNED BY B. CUZNER
(See Birmingham Studio-Talk)
Victorian sideboards, and business will not be bad.
Can one blame the house-decoration grocers if they
get for those people just what they wish ? But
the artists of the house are not artists when they
submit to such conditions. No wonder that in
Glasgow, where the environment is specially favour-
able to art, a coalition against such a state of
affairs has been possible, and even men who do not
call themselves artists have given their disinterested
Support to this movement.
The Scottish Guild of Handicraft is a labour
co-partnership association, the aims and advantages
of which are at once clear.
A temporary committee of eight members has
gathered together a certain number of artists,
chiefly of the house and of the book, who propose
to seil their work on their own common account.
By means of frequent exhibitions and of a sale-
store, they keep in touch with the public, avoiding
entirely the interference of the middleman, and
dividing his profits between the public and them-
selves. The committee judges whether an artist’s
Standard is high enough for his admittance to the
Guild. After admission he has to take care to
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keep his work at a high enough Standard, or he
may be expelled. The Guild may refuse to
exhibit the work of its members, even without
expelling the artist.
The Guild manages on its own account a work-
shop for metalwork, and some interesting objects
have come out of it; but at the time of their
exhibitions its effort comes better into evidence, as
several unmistakably fine artists send in their
works on those occasions, not only from Glasgow,
but from other towns of Scotland and of England.
So it has been possible to admire at some of the
shows the Ruskin wäre and leadless glaze pottery
of W. Howson Taylor, and charming little settings
for small wall electric lamps by Mr. Garrod, of
London ; and, of Scottish artists, I have noticed
sometimes works by Annie French, Jessie King,
Helen P. Brown, Miss Harvey, E. A. Taylor. I
am quoting these names here merely to show the
vitality and promising future of the Guild.
In the long run, those who, from soundly estab-
lished principles and generous intuitions, move to
SPOONS DESIGNED BY B. CUZNER
(See Birmingham Studio-Talk)
JEWELLERY DESIGNED BY B. CUZNER
(See Birmingham Studio-Talk)
Victorian sideboards, and business will not be bad.
Can one blame the house-decoration grocers if they
get for those people just what they wish ? But
the artists of the house are not artists when they
submit to such conditions. No wonder that in
Glasgow, where the environment is specially favour-
able to art, a coalition against such a state of
affairs has been possible, and even men who do not
call themselves artists have given their disinterested
Support to this movement.
The Scottish Guild of Handicraft is a labour
co-partnership association, the aims and advantages
of which are at once clear.
A temporary committee of eight members has
gathered together a certain number of artists,
chiefly of the house and of the book, who propose
to seil their work on their own common account.
By means of frequent exhibitions and of a sale-
store, they keep in touch with the public, avoiding
entirely the interference of the middleman, and
dividing his profits between the public and them-
selves. The committee judges whether an artist’s
Standard is high enough for his admittance to the
Guild. After admission he has to take care to
7 6
keep his work at a high enough Standard, or he
may be expelled. The Guild may refuse to
exhibit the work of its members, even without
expelling the artist.
The Guild manages on its own account a work-
shop for metalwork, and some interesting objects
have come out of it; but at the time of their
exhibitions its effort comes better into evidence, as
several unmistakably fine artists send in their
works on those occasions, not only from Glasgow,
but from other towns of Scotland and of England.
So it has been possible to admire at some of the
shows the Ruskin wäre and leadless glaze pottery
of W. Howson Taylor, and charming little settings
for small wall electric lamps by Mr. Garrod, of
London ; and, of Scottish artists, I have noticed
sometimes works by Annie French, Jessie King,
Helen P. Brown, Miss Harvey, E. A. Taylor. I
am quoting these names here merely to show the
vitality and promising future of the Guild.
In the long run, those who, from soundly estab-
lished principles and generous intuitions, move to
SPOONS DESIGNED BY B. CUZNER
(See Birmingham Studio-Talk)