DOI Heft:
Nr. 118 (January 1903)
DOI Artikel:Fred, Alfred W.: The International Exhibition of Decorative Art at Turin, the Italian section
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19877#0289
Turin Exhibition
mind in decorative art. The wood in its natural
colour is carved with conventionalised flowers. A
dining room by the same firm shows a rich but
heavy use of wood carving, well executed, and the
breakfast room is ingenious and pleasing; the treat-
ment of marine subjects is even poetical.
The most important Italian industry is pottery of
many kinds. It has been carried on very con-
tinuously since the time of the della Robbias. The
constant demand of foreign purchasers has kept up
the production of more or less good work of the
kind, and the fine old shapes have been perennially
by domenico trentacoste
reproduced. In Italy, as in other countries, the
coarser kind of earthenware lends itself best to the
modern taste for effective colour in pottery ; the
lustres originally produced by the village potter, so
far as his means of firing them allowed, are now
applied to artistic pieces in the town factories.
Conte Vincento Giustiniani was the first to check
inartistic copying and encourage original design
and colouring. Capital examples of his ware were
exhibited at the Paris 1900 Exhibition, and
attempts are now being made to adapt earthen-
ware plaques and panels, with plain or iridescent
glazes, to the decoration of interiors; for in-
stance, large pictured panels, as well as decora-
tive tiles for larders and bathrooms. The old-
stained glass by g. bkltrami established factory of the Ginori, in Florence, has
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mind in decorative art. The wood in its natural
colour is carved with conventionalised flowers. A
dining room by the same firm shows a rich but
heavy use of wood carving, well executed, and the
breakfast room is ingenious and pleasing; the treat-
ment of marine subjects is even poetical.
The most important Italian industry is pottery of
many kinds. It has been carried on very con-
tinuously since the time of the della Robbias. The
constant demand of foreign purchasers has kept up
the production of more or less good work of the
kind, and the fine old shapes have been perennially
by domenico trentacoste
reproduced. In Italy, as in other countries, the
coarser kind of earthenware lends itself best to the
modern taste for effective colour in pottery ; the
lustres originally produced by the village potter, so
far as his means of firing them allowed, are now
applied to artistic pieces in the town factories.
Conte Vincento Giustiniani was the first to check
inartistic copying and encourage original design
and colouring. Capital examples of his ware were
exhibited at the Paris 1900 Exhibition, and
attempts are now being made to adapt earthen-
ware plaques and panels, with plain or iridescent
glazes, to the decoration of interiors; for in-
stance, large pictured panels, as well as decora-
tive tiles for larders and bathrooms. The old-
stained glass by g. bkltrami established factory of the Ginori, in Florence, has
277