DOI Heft:
No. 155 (February, 1906)
DOI Artikel:The arts and crafts exhibition at the Grafton Gallery, [1]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0070
Slrts and Crafts Exhibition. First Notice
PAINTED SCREEN BY K. MORTON NANCE
PAINTED OVERMANTEL: "HOMEWARD BOUND BY R. MORTON NANCE
but artistic furniture by Reginald Blomfield, W. R. fully examine the details of the exhibition. But it
Lethaby, W. F. Cave, George Jack, and C. F. A. is lamentably certain that the advance which one
Voysey; the wall-papers and fabrics designed had every right to expect has not taken place:
by H. Wilson, Walter Crane, W. Heywood the Society still remains where it was. It has
Sumner, and others seemed to give so much failed to participate in the great renascence of art
promise for a new and glorious reign of the deco- which is now making such giant strides on the
rative arts, one is obliged to confess to oneself that Continent, and more especially in Germany and
the Society is not altogether fulfilling the mission Austria; nor does it indeed adequately represent
which it originally set out to effect. Not but that the best work now produced in the British Isles,
there is some excellent work to be seen in the There is more than one tradesman in London to-
present display; not but that many of the old day who, out of the stores at his disposal, could
designers are still true to the tradition of the Society make a far better and more artistic display of
—these things are evident to those who may care- British craftsmanship than is to be seen at the
So
PAINTED SCREEN BY K. MORTON NANCE
PAINTED OVERMANTEL: "HOMEWARD BOUND BY R. MORTON NANCE
but artistic furniture by Reginald Blomfield, W. R. fully examine the details of the exhibition. But it
Lethaby, W. F. Cave, George Jack, and C. F. A. is lamentably certain that the advance which one
Voysey; the wall-papers and fabrics designed had every right to expect has not taken place:
by H. Wilson, Walter Crane, W. Heywood the Society still remains where it was. It has
Sumner, and others seemed to give so much failed to participate in the great renascence of art
promise for a new and glorious reign of the deco- which is now making such giant strides on the
rative arts, one is obliged to confess to oneself that Continent, and more especially in Germany and
the Society is not altogether fulfilling the mission Austria; nor does it indeed adequately represent
which it originally set out to effect. Not but that the best work now produced in the British Isles,
there is some excellent work to be seen in the There is more than one tradesman in London to-
present display; not but that many of the old day who, out of the stores at his disposal, could
designers are still true to the tradition of the Society make a far better and more artistic display of
—these things are evident to those who may care- British craftsmanship than is to be seen at the
So