DOI Heft:
No. 52 (July, 1897)
DOI Artikel:The Home Arts and Industries Association at the Royal Albert Hall, 1897
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0131
Home Arts and Industries
not be given in vain. Indeed, it should serve to call the best," should be one of the maxims of the
attention to the valuable results which might be Association.
achieved by mutual co-operation ; so that a class From Yatteridon came a group of delightful
which excels in metal work might execute commis- metal work quite up to the high level this branch
sions for one that finds skilled joinery its chief established some time ago; and an excellently pro-
product, and so on. portioned settle, of good design, with carving dis-
Among the beautifully executed bindings and erectly applied. A pierced fender with design of
other objects in decorated leather which were upon ships and a setting sun from Newton was also worthy
the Leighton-Buzzard stall, a cover designed by of special note. Southwold had a vast display of most
Miss Bassett, and a folding photograph screen by excellent carving, the major part being orthodox in
Miss A. Shepherd were among the best. The design, well finished in construction, quite up to the
former is novel and restrained, the latter an excel- level of taste of a first class West-end furnisher's, but
lent instance of a commonplace trifle made attrac- just lacking the personal interest that distinguishes
tive by the grace of its design. A leather box the woodwork of the individual craftsman from
which Lower Birtley exhibited is a faithful imita- most of the furniture of commerce. If Southwold
tion of a famous specimen in the South Kensington had its Mr. George Frampton, its Mr. C. R. Ash-
Museum which has been illustrated in these pages. bee, or its Mr. Voysey, it might be easily first.
Its success proved that if original invention be One does not advise the school to endeavour to
lacking, a skilful workman has only to choose a obtain designs from either of the three artists just
first-rate example of the past to satisfy the most mentioned, that its pupils might copy them blindly ;
exacting taste. "If you copy, be sure only to copy but it would be to its lasting benefit if the irreproach-
able technique it has
established could be in-
fused with nineteenth-cen-
tury feeling. An enthu-
siast who threw over dead
precedent and inspired
the clever fingers of its
pupils to fresh departure,
might raise Southwold to
a national position as a
school of wood-carving.
Its exhibits are in good
taste, but without personal
interest; in a shop win-
dow not one would stand
out conspicuously as a
work of art; although
possibly not one would
fall below the level of the
market in mechanical per-
fection. The wood-can-
ings of the Kent County
Council Schools show little
new vitality, but maintain
a very respectable level of
worthy craft, a shade too
worthy for the most part.
TheChiswiek School of
Arts and Crafts exhibited
I_,________ ' : "-'-^i^^W-^^^-.^^l a large case of admirable
bookbindings. On some
APPUQUI work PORTIERE. DESIGNED BY GODFREY BLOUNT tne clesigns were entirely
executed BY the class, Haskmere worthy of the skilful
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not be given in vain. Indeed, it should serve to call the best," should be one of the maxims of the
attention to the valuable results which might be Association.
achieved by mutual co-operation ; so that a class From Yatteridon came a group of delightful
which excels in metal work might execute commis- metal work quite up to the high level this branch
sions for one that finds skilled joinery its chief established some time ago; and an excellently pro-
product, and so on. portioned settle, of good design, with carving dis-
Among the beautifully executed bindings and erectly applied. A pierced fender with design of
other objects in decorated leather which were upon ships and a setting sun from Newton was also worthy
the Leighton-Buzzard stall, a cover designed by of special note. Southwold had a vast display of most
Miss Bassett, and a folding photograph screen by excellent carving, the major part being orthodox in
Miss A. Shepherd were among the best. The design, well finished in construction, quite up to the
former is novel and restrained, the latter an excel- level of taste of a first class West-end furnisher's, but
lent instance of a commonplace trifle made attrac- just lacking the personal interest that distinguishes
tive by the grace of its design. A leather box the woodwork of the individual craftsman from
which Lower Birtley exhibited is a faithful imita- most of the furniture of commerce. If Southwold
tion of a famous specimen in the South Kensington had its Mr. George Frampton, its Mr. C. R. Ash-
Museum which has been illustrated in these pages. bee, or its Mr. Voysey, it might be easily first.
Its success proved that if original invention be One does not advise the school to endeavour to
lacking, a skilful workman has only to choose a obtain designs from either of the three artists just
first-rate example of the past to satisfy the most mentioned, that its pupils might copy them blindly ;
exacting taste. "If you copy, be sure only to copy but it would be to its lasting benefit if the irreproach-
able technique it has
established could be in-
fused with nineteenth-cen-
tury feeling. An enthu-
siast who threw over dead
precedent and inspired
the clever fingers of its
pupils to fresh departure,
might raise Southwold to
a national position as a
school of wood-carving.
Its exhibits are in good
taste, but without personal
interest; in a shop win-
dow not one would stand
out conspicuously as a
work of art; although
possibly not one would
fall below the level of the
market in mechanical per-
fection. The wood-can-
ings of the Kent County
Council Schools show little
new vitality, but maintain
a very respectable level of
worthy craft, a shade too
worthy for the most part.
TheChiswiek School of
Arts and Crafts exhibited
I_,________ ' : "-'-^i^^W-^^^-.^^l a large case of admirable
bookbindings. On some
APPUQUI work PORTIERE. DESIGNED BY GODFREY BLOUNT tne clesigns were entirely
executed BY the class, Haskmere worthy of the skilful
I i \