DOI Heft:
No. 325 (April 1920)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21360#0077
STUDIO-TALK
“ BOILER-ROOM, H.M.S. ‘ CURLEW ’ ’
WATER-COLOUR BY CECIL KING
the last year or two of the war helped
materially to thwart the enemy's submarine
activities, 00000
Since its inauguration in 1915 the British
Industries Fair, instituted to provide an
annual rendezvous for wholesale producers
and retailers such as that afforded by the
Lenten fair at Leipzig, has with each
succeeding year assumed larger and larger
proportions. This year's fair, held at the
Crystal Palace early last month, was from
all accounts, a remarkable success from a
commercial point of view, but we are
afraid it cannot be said that in regard to
design as distinguished from purely Tech-
nical qualities, the goods displayed showed
any marked improvement. With the ex-
ception of a small minority our manufac-
turers as represented at this fair would
still seem to lack a proper appreciation of
the commercial value of good design, and
to harbour the fallacy that because the
public buy what is offered they would not
buy something better if it were available.
We look forward with more hope in this
respect to the exhibition which is being
organized by the British Institute of
Industrial Art. This exhibition, to be
held at the Institute's spacious building in
Knightsbridge early in June, will com-
prise furniture, textiles, pottery, porcelain,
earthenware, glass (including stained glass)
of British production, and its aim will be
to demonstrate that success in competition
in the world's markets can be ensured by
quality of production as well as quantity.
The Director of the Institute appeals for
the co-operation of all manufacturers and
others interested in this aim by participat-
ing in the exhibition. The latest date for
receiving work is May 8. 0 0 0
The Society of Women Artists has just
held its annual exhibition at the R.B.A.
Galleries in Suffolk Street, and it was, on
the whole, distinctly more interesting than
any of the Society's shows of recent years.
Partly, no doubt, as a result of their train-
ing, there is still, perhaps, a little too much
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“ BOILER-ROOM, H.M.S. ‘ CURLEW ’ ’
WATER-COLOUR BY CECIL KING
the last year or two of the war helped
materially to thwart the enemy's submarine
activities, 00000
Since its inauguration in 1915 the British
Industries Fair, instituted to provide an
annual rendezvous for wholesale producers
and retailers such as that afforded by the
Lenten fair at Leipzig, has with each
succeeding year assumed larger and larger
proportions. This year's fair, held at the
Crystal Palace early last month, was from
all accounts, a remarkable success from a
commercial point of view, but we are
afraid it cannot be said that in regard to
design as distinguished from purely Tech-
nical qualities, the goods displayed showed
any marked improvement. With the ex-
ception of a small minority our manufac-
turers as represented at this fair would
still seem to lack a proper appreciation of
the commercial value of good design, and
to harbour the fallacy that because the
public buy what is offered they would not
buy something better if it were available.
We look forward with more hope in this
respect to the exhibition which is being
organized by the British Institute of
Industrial Art. This exhibition, to be
held at the Institute's spacious building in
Knightsbridge early in June, will com-
prise furniture, textiles, pottery, porcelain,
earthenware, glass (including stained glass)
of British production, and its aim will be
to demonstrate that success in competition
in the world's markets can be ensured by
quality of production as well as quantity.
The Director of the Institute appeals for
the co-operation of all manufacturers and
others interested in this aim by participat-
ing in the exhibition. The latest date for
receiving work is May 8. 0 0 0
The Society of Women Artists has just
held its annual exhibition at the R.B.A.
Galleries in Suffolk Street, and it was, on
the whole, distinctly more interesting than
any of the Society's shows of recent years.
Partly, no doubt, as a result of their train-
ing, there is still, perhaps, a little too much
7i