DOI Heft:
No. 29 (August, 1895)
DOI Artikel:The Home Arts and Industries Association, at the Albert Hall
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17294#0188
Home Arts and Industries at the Albert Hall
fire-stand. designed by h.r.h. the princess of
wales. Sandringham
result. So far it hardly seems as if a genius had been
lighted upon. But the vast resources of the State
teaching of Art, or of the Board Schools, have yet
disinterred few great painters or great poets; but
poker-work child's chair. designed by h.r.h. the
duchess of york. Sandringham
that excellent artisans and craftsmen pass through
the hands of their instructors into ordinary trades,
where they are lost to their particular association,
but remain welcome recruits to the craft they
serve, is true enough. It is also clear that several
very accomplished designers have taken an interest
in certain branches ; and the good worked thereby
should cause all designers and architects who are
capable of imparting the first principles of decora-
tion to others, to look about them and to aid in a
movement that needs their presence.
Good mechanism, and the right use of tools,
must of course be placed as the first essential; but
poker-work table. designed by h.r.h. the
duchess of york. Sandringham
these subjects are taught in the ordinary routine
ot most trades, or can be acquired without resort-
ing to the machinery of such an association as this.
But design and good taste, that shall raise the
average neat joinery or well-worked metal to the
level of the arts, cannot, as a rule, be acquired in
the rush of commercial production. In the trade
workshop, individuality is a nuisance ; the artisan
who becomes merely a highly trained machine, is
more valued; owing to the division of labour, A
not only takes little interest in B's work, but is
unconscious what the rest of the alphabet may be
doing, and often without knowledge of the import-
ance of his own share in the final result.
Owing to the absence of a catalogue, and the fact
that contributions are arranged topographically and
not according to their subjects, it is a peculiarly diffi-
cult task to pick out the best from the hundreds
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fire-stand. designed by h.r.h. the princess of
wales. Sandringham
result. So far it hardly seems as if a genius had been
lighted upon. But the vast resources of the State
teaching of Art, or of the Board Schools, have yet
disinterred few great painters or great poets; but
poker-work child's chair. designed by h.r.h. the
duchess of york. Sandringham
that excellent artisans and craftsmen pass through
the hands of their instructors into ordinary trades,
where they are lost to their particular association,
but remain welcome recruits to the craft they
serve, is true enough. It is also clear that several
very accomplished designers have taken an interest
in certain branches ; and the good worked thereby
should cause all designers and architects who are
capable of imparting the first principles of decora-
tion to others, to look about them and to aid in a
movement that needs their presence.
Good mechanism, and the right use of tools,
must of course be placed as the first essential; but
poker-work table. designed by h.r.h. the
duchess of york. Sandringham
these subjects are taught in the ordinary routine
ot most trades, or can be acquired without resort-
ing to the machinery of such an association as this.
But design and good taste, that shall raise the
average neat joinery or well-worked metal to the
level of the arts, cannot, as a rule, be acquired in
the rush of commercial production. In the trade
workshop, individuality is a nuisance ; the artisan
who becomes merely a highly trained machine, is
more valued; owing to the division of labour, A
not only takes little interest in B's work, but is
unconscious what the rest of the alphabet may be
doing, and often without knowledge of the import-
ance of his own share in the final result.
Owing to the absence of a catalogue, and the fact
that contributions are arranged topographically and
not according to their subjects, it is a peculiarly diffi-
cult task to pick out the best from the hundreds
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