Studio: international art (83.1922)

THE BRITISH; INSTITUTE OF
INDUSTRIAL ART. a 0^0

INCORPORATED in 1920 under the
1 joint auspices of two Government de-
partments—the Board of Trade and the
Board of Education—this institute, whose
chief object is ** to secure that intimate co-
operation of the Arts in industry which is
essential to quality production,^ has already
held several exhibitions in London, and on
the occasion of the inaugural show at the
Institute's headquarters in Knightsbridge,
many of the exhibits were illustrated in this
magazine. The Knightsbridge; premises

being no longer available for such displays,
the latest of the series, considerably exceed-
ing the earlier ones in number of exhibits,
was accommodated in a suite of rooms at
the Victoria and Albert Museum for six
weeks in January and February, whence a
large part of the collection has been trans-
ferred to the Public Art Gallery at Bradford
to form, with additions of local origin, the
first of a round of exhibitions in the
provinces. 00000
The exhibits at South Kensington con-
sisted of five main sections—furniture, tex-
tiles, metal work, ceramics, and printing.
In the furniture section the principal

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