Studio: international art (80.1920)

THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ART

WRITING BUREAU IN
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SIGNED AND EXECUTED
BY JOSEPH ARMITAGE

one of the earlier volumes of The Studio
year book of Decorative Art. With
headquarters in Munich and branches
in all the great cities of the Empire, this
alliance quickly grew into a large and
influential organization, embracing among
its supporters many of Germany's leading
artists and representatives of some of
the biggest industrial concerns, and so
far as we know it is still active, and must
be reckoned with as a powerful factor
in international commerce. Then, again,
there are two newer societies, which
though formed mainly to promote the
professional interests of their members,
will doubtless have some influence on
public feeling in art matters—the Society
of Graphic Art, whose membership is
recruited from the ranks of etchers,
lithographic artists, wood engravers, book
illustrators and black and white draughts-
men, including those whose work is of
the type usually designated as " com-
mercial art"; and the Sands Society,
restricted to designers of posters. Now
it is one of the objects of the British
Institute to endeavour to assist and
co-ordinate as far as possible the activities
of all societies and groups such as these,
which in one or other way seek to spread
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the influence and prestige of art among
the community at large, and if it succeeds
in this aim it will have accomplished
something worth trying for. 0 0
One of the important functions enu-
merated in the Institute's initial programme
was that of organizing a permanent
exhibition of works produced both by
individual craftsmen and by manu-
facturers, the exhibits to be constantly
changed and kept up to date, and to be
subject before admission to the scrutiny
of a competent body of experts selected
from artists and manufacturers, so as

MIRROR IN CARVED AND
GILDED WOOD FRAME
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED
BY JOSEPH ARMITAGE