Studio: international art (80.1920)

TOILET. WOOD-
CUT BY M. BROWN

THE CENTRAL SCHOOL OF ARTS
AND CRAFTS. 0000

TWENTY-FIVE years ago the
Technical Education Board of the
London County Council planned its first
school of arts and crafts, which was
opened at a house in Regent Street,
nearly opposite the Polytechnic, in
November, 1896. Professor Lethaby
and Mr. (now Sir George) Frampton
were its original directors, and for more
than ten years useful work was done in
Regent Street, despite cramped quarters
and imperfect equipment. It was not
until 1908 that the construction was
finished of a school worthy of the greatest
city in the world, and towards the close

of that year the London County Council
established its classes for crafts and
design in the vast building of grey stone
that dominates the Holborn end of
Southampton Row. How vast that
building is no one realizes until he has
been through it, from the spacious lecture
hall on the ground floor to the light and
airy studios on the fifth. 000
Although on every floor there are large
classrooms, studios and workshops, the
space is still none too great for the army
of pupils they attract, for in the eight years
that have elapsed since Mr, F. V. Burridge
left the Liverpool School of Art to take
the post of Principal here the London
County Council Central School of Art
has become the largest institution of its

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