DOI Heft:
Nr. 197 (July, 1913)
DOI Artikel:An exhibition of art in modern industries
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43453#0115
An Exhibition of Art in Modern Industries
ROOM IN CHINESE CHIPPENDALE—ARRANGED BY A FIRST-YEAR STUDENT OF
INTERIOR DECORATION
cessful is not only apparent in the exhibit itself, but
in the fact that each practical department has a
wide field of affiliation with the best exponents
in the various fields in which this school is
most active.
The school has filled three important positions
with teachers of interior decoration, and failed to
fill two because there were no thoroughly trained
candidates ready. Progressive decorators are ask-
ing for trained assistants, and begging that half-
trained ones shall keep out of the business. There
are plenty of them already.
The most sig¬
nificant and hope¬
ful thing, how¬
ever, is the co¬
operation of the
trade during the
student’s period
of study. Sev¬
eral prominent in¬
terior decorators
have given their
problems to the
classes as a work¬
ing exercise, and
then have bought
the sketches
which seemed
best to them. As
many as ten per¬
sons studying il¬
lustrative adver¬
tising sold to
magazines, trade
firms, and agen-
cies from one to
twenty sketches,
each varying from
$10 to $50 apiece.
Nearly all of these
were first-year
students.
Costume design
was as successful
in its serving the
best public taste.
Out of ten designs
submitted to one
of the largest car-
pet houses in the
world, eight were
accepted. Com-
petitive prizes
were won in the “Times Contest”—contests for
covers of several trade publications, and for milli-
nery posters. The delightful and interesting thing
in all this is the truth that the trade did not select
bad, inartistic things, but were as glad to get good
things and showed as keen an appreciation of the
beautiful as the so-called artists themselves.
The modern viewpoint is illustrated by this
work the last year, and the public’s response. The
class studying interior decoration, founded five
years ago with one student has increased to
seventy-six.
BEDROOM, OLD ENGLISH STYLE—ARRANGED BY A SECOND-YEAR STUDENT OF
INTERIOR DECORATION
XIX
ROOM IN CHINESE CHIPPENDALE—ARRANGED BY A FIRST-YEAR STUDENT OF
INTERIOR DECORATION
cessful is not only apparent in the exhibit itself, but
in the fact that each practical department has a
wide field of affiliation with the best exponents
in the various fields in which this school is
most active.
The school has filled three important positions
with teachers of interior decoration, and failed to
fill two because there were no thoroughly trained
candidates ready. Progressive decorators are ask-
ing for trained assistants, and begging that half-
trained ones shall keep out of the business. There
are plenty of them already.
The most sig¬
nificant and hope¬
ful thing, how¬
ever, is the co¬
operation of the
trade during the
student’s period
of study. Sev¬
eral prominent in¬
terior decorators
have given their
problems to the
classes as a work¬
ing exercise, and
then have bought
the sketches
which seemed
best to them. As
many as ten per¬
sons studying il¬
lustrative adver¬
tising sold to
magazines, trade
firms, and agen-
cies from one to
twenty sketches,
each varying from
$10 to $50 apiece.
Nearly all of these
were first-year
students.
Costume design
was as successful
in its serving the
best public taste.
Out of ten designs
submitted to one
of the largest car-
pet houses in the
world, eight were
accepted. Com-
petitive prizes
were won in the “Times Contest”—contests for
covers of several trade publications, and for milli-
nery posters. The delightful and interesting thing
in all this is the truth that the trade did not select
bad, inartistic things, but were as glad to get good
things and showed as keen an appreciation of the
beautiful as the so-called artists themselves.
The modern viewpoint is illustrated by this
work the last year, and the public’s response. The
class studying interior decoration, founded five
years ago with one student has increased to
seventy-six.
BEDROOM, OLD ENGLISH STYLE—ARRANGED BY A SECOND-YEAR STUDENT OF
INTERIOR DECORATION
XIX