Studio: international art (57.1913)

The Arts and Crafts Society's Exhibition

SILVER NECKLET SET WITH MOONSTONES AND WHITE TOURMALINES
BY VIOLET RAMSAY

GOLD AND SILVER “VINE” NECKLACE SET WITH CARBUNCLES

BY VIOLET RAMSAY

display, to which the present
simple background of brown
paper is in no way detrimental.

In the interval that has
elapsed between the closing of
its last exhibition and the open-
ing of the present one the Arts
and Crafts Society has lost, by
the death of Mr. Lewis Day, one
of its earliest and most hard-
working members. Mr. Day,
to whose ability and energy Mr.
Crane pays a tribute in his in-
troductory notes to the cata-
logue, was connected intimately
with the foundation of the
Society, which originated in
some informal meetings of
artists and craftsmen held at
various studios thirty years ago.
It is interesting to recall at this
moment that the first of these
meetings was held at the house
of Mr. Lewis Day.

The exhibition at the Gros-
venor Gallery resembles its pre-
decessor of 19to in its freedom
from extravagance, and also, it
must be confessed, in its lack
of new motives. It gives a
general impression of skilled
craftsmanship following recog-
nised and respectable lines,
with a corresponding output

impression that is given by the exhi-
bition on first entering the gallery is
due in some degree to the beauty of
the rooms, but more to the way in which
the various articles are grouped and dis-
played. Some critics have found fault
with the result of the labours of the
committee of arrangement, but they
cannot, I think, have made sufficient
allowance for the extreme difficulty of
placing with any degree of symmetry or
order the great number of heterogeneous
objects shown by the Arts and Crafts
Society. The silk curtains which
draped the walls of the Grosvenor
during the time of the inaugural exhi-
bition of pictures have been removed
for the purposes of the Arts and Crafts

BINDING FOR “THE SHKPH'EARDES CALENDAR” (KEI.M9COTT
TRESS). BY ALFRED DE SAUTY

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