DOI Heft:
No.129 (December, 1901)
DOI Artikel:A Glasgow designer: The furniture of Mr. George Logan
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0218
George Logan
DINING-ROOM IN OAK DESIGNED HY GEORGE LOGAN, EXECUTED BY MESSRS. WYLIE & LOCHHEAD
intent; self-conscious, not spontaneous ; lacking
for the most part that artlessness which denotes
the true artist. Nor can we, except in a few
instances, or in vague and qualified manner, trace
its continuity with that which has gone before it.
If proof be needed how essential it is for the
maker of the design to be in close relation with the
maker of the product, no better instance could be
adduced than the successful enterprise of Messrs.
Wylie and Lochhead. Such firms play an important
part in the economy of the art world when the
obvious tendency of the present-day demand for
art work is to cramp the designers into the
narrowest type of specialism, and to limit each
man's effort to certain classes of achievement;
they hold strongly the creed that the true mission
of the art worker is to prove himself capable of
many things, to show that he has an all-round
knowledge of the varieties of technical expression,
and a practical acquaintance with many methods
of stating the ideas which are in his mind.
Another encouraging sign which marks the
growth of new and important influences in the art
of the day, is the tendency of younger artists to
devote themselves to the study and practice of
decoration. This widening of the artistic view is
calling into existence a school of craftsmen whose
work is full of promise and interest. To some
extent we find a reversion to the ideal of the
medieval artist, who took a comprehensive view
of his responsibilities and spared no pains to equip
himself so completely that he would be equal to
whatever demands might be made upon him ; but
through all his practice ran the dominating idea
that his mission as an art worker was to decorate
to make something that would fulfil a specific pur
pose of adornment, and permanently beautify some
chosen place.
Not content to rank with the many who plod
along a beaten track, ignoring all invitations to
tempt fortune by excursions into unknown regions,
men like George Logan keep alive the love of
experiment and trial, and encourage that desire for
progress which would soon die out were individuality
smothered by mechanical proficiency in the art of
copying. George Logan has established himself
as one of the capable and ingenious workers in
decorative art, and has proved his capacity to
invent and carry out new applications of artistic
materials. His methods are sound, and the
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DINING-ROOM IN OAK DESIGNED HY GEORGE LOGAN, EXECUTED BY MESSRS. WYLIE & LOCHHEAD
intent; self-conscious, not spontaneous ; lacking
for the most part that artlessness which denotes
the true artist. Nor can we, except in a few
instances, or in vague and qualified manner, trace
its continuity with that which has gone before it.
If proof be needed how essential it is for the
maker of the design to be in close relation with the
maker of the product, no better instance could be
adduced than the successful enterprise of Messrs.
Wylie and Lochhead. Such firms play an important
part in the economy of the art world when the
obvious tendency of the present-day demand for
art work is to cramp the designers into the
narrowest type of specialism, and to limit each
man's effort to certain classes of achievement;
they hold strongly the creed that the true mission
of the art worker is to prove himself capable of
many things, to show that he has an all-round
knowledge of the varieties of technical expression,
and a practical acquaintance with many methods
of stating the ideas which are in his mind.
Another encouraging sign which marks the
growth of new and important influences in the art
of the day, is the tendency of younger artists to
devote themselves to the study and practice of
decoration. This widening of the artistic view is
calling into existence a school of craftsmen whose
work is full of promise and interest. To some
extent we find a reversion to the ideal of the
medieval artist, who took a comprehensive view
of his responsibilities and spared no pains to equip
himself so completely that he would be equal to
whatever demands might be made upon him ; but
through all his practice ran the dominating idea
that his mission as an art worker was to decorate
to make something that would fulfil a specific pur
pose of adornment, and permanently beautify some
chosen place.
Not content to rank with the many who plod
along a beaten track, ignoring all invitations to
tempt fortune by excursions into unknown regions,
men like George Logan keep alive the love of
experiment and trial, and encourage that desire for
progress which would soon die out were individuality
smothered by mechanical proficiency in the art of
copying. George Logan has established himself
as one of the capable and ingenious workers in
decorative art, and has proved his capacity to
invent and carry out new applications of artistic
materials. His methods are sound, and the
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