DOI Heft:
No. 16 (July, 1894)
DOI Artikel:A studio of design: an interview with Mr. Arthur Silver
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17190#0137
A Studio of Design
PATTERNS. BASED ON THE FUCHSIA
am only speaking what I know in
saying colouring is the weak point
of the chain in our industrial pro-
gress ; so far as the colouring of
designs is concerned, the best
manufacturers can teach the de-
signer much more than he can
teach them."
" But if designing is no good as
a paying profession, ought one not
to prevent many philistine parents
of artistic progenies giving their
children the advantages of artistic
training ? "
" A pupil who has the imaginative
temperament combined with a
faculty for expressing forms need
not always remain a designer; a
short experience in a studio should
be of immense value to intending
manufacturers of artistic produc-
tions or high-class decorators. The
revolutions caused in business show
a tendency for centralisation, and
you will shortly have only the Stores
" And you feel this would not be sacrificing the on the one hand, and, on the other, men who are
artistic quality of individuality and advocating the specialists and who can produce material with
mediocre ?" impressed individuality, otherwise they will be
" Most decidedly not: I am merely stating facts, sucked in by the influence and whirlpools of
"When a student has to rely on designing for his competition. A man who, in business, can take
means of livelihood in the future, a teacher is out his sketch-book and show a customer what
bound in all conscience to put the
matter clearly before him. With respect J^^PJE^/^SSf' tfM'M ^W*T ^itj^jW'9^''
to ' individuality,'when it is c..... jfffjwj^^ JjffX '*/fcfcH |lt^ <®| fflwSjitiflj
for the purpose aimed a;, it should /ffir* "ff^ftA->V Smf^
cherished as the most pr. > rift ; '//jU^S^L^t w^Rv/jf
an,l rather than have it cramped in am f/I^^^J| «AY JIP^SSB^SKKl
way, I would scatter all 'principles' to Wm$?&^2 Ww&Sv^
the winds and let such an one exercise
his own sweet will with absolute free- ^mS^^^m^^^ms*^^hr^9 J5^?£^^BjL
dom, provided his plan - show fflU i& .n&Qj^SfS&^r smSAmp-
mise of fitness to a purpose." MJM^L M>iSi^^^Wlt^l»^&
"You must see the w ,rk ma ,y ^IVf^SU W^BS^^mih^^
beginners?" I l^iM^liP^
"Ye,: and the result is very dis ^\\}m^W^^^M^ W/T^
heartening, at all events from my point lW^^«|?r^f "//k \*
of view; the general impression I ^/fa ^^^mMMflMS^^^L^
receive is that receptiveness and indi-
viduality have been entirely sacrificed
to routine. Do they show any feeling
for colour as colour ? Since you put
that question, which is of crucial im-
portance, I must say that this is the
very quality marked by deficiency. I
PATTERNS. BASED ON THE FUCHSIA
am only speaking what I know in
saying colouring is the weak point
of the chain in our industrial pro-
gress ; so far as the colouring of
designs is concerned, the best
manufacturers can teach the de-
signer much more than he can
teach them."
" But if designing is no good as
a paying profession, ought one not
to prevent many philistine parents
of artistic progenies giving their
children the advantages of artistic
training ? "
" A pupil who has the imaginative
temperament combined with a
faculty for expressing forms need
not always remain a designer; a
short experience in a studio should
be of immense value to intending
manufacturers of artistic produc-
tions or high-class decorators. The
revolutions caused in business show
a tendency for centralisation, and
you will shortly have only the Stores
" And you feel this would not be sacrificing the on the one hand, and, on the other, men who are
artistic quality of individuality and advocating the specialists and who can produce material with
mediocre ?" impressed individuality, otherwise they will be
" Most decidedly not: I am merely stating facts, sucked in by the influence and whirlpools of
"When a student has to rely on designing for his competition. A man who, in business, can take
means of livelihood in the future, a teacher is out his sketch-book and show a customer what
bound in all conscience to put the
matter clearly before him. With respect J^^PJE^/^SSf' tfM'M ^W*T ^itj^jW'9^''
to ' individuality,'when it is c..... jfffjwj^^ JjffX '*/fcfcH |lt^ <®| fflwSjitiflj
for the purpose aimed a;, it should /ffir* "ff^ftA->V Smf^
cherished as the most pr. > rift ; '//jU^S^L^t w^Rv/jf
an,l rather than have it cramped in am f/I^^^J| «AY JIP^SSB^SKKl
way, I would scatter all 'principles' to Wm$?&^2 Ww&Sv^
the winds and let such an one exercise
his own sweet will with absolute free- ^mS^^^m^^^ms*^^hr^9 J5^?£^^BjL
dom, provided his plan - show fflU i& .n&Qj^SfS&^r smSAmp-
mise of fitness to a purpose." MJM^L M>iSi^^^Wlt^l»^&
"You must see the w ,rk ma ,y ^IVf^SU W^BS^^mih^^
beginners?" I l^iM^liP^
"Ye,: and the result is very dis ^\\}m^W^^^M^ W/T^
heartening, at all events from my point lW^^«|?r^f "//k \*
of view; the general impression I ^/fa ^^^mMMflMS^^^L^
receive is that receptiveness and indi-
viduality have been entirely sacrificed
to routine. Do they show any feeling
for colour as colour ? Since you put
that question, which is of crucial im-
portance, I must say that this is the
very quality marked by deficiency. I