DOI Heft:
No. 371 (February 1924)
DOI Artikel:The Swedish applied art exhibition at the Gieves Gallery
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0098
THE SWEDISH APPLIED ART EXHIBITION
work which compels one's interest and
suggests attractive developments along de-
cidedly unconventional lines. Some of the
pottery shown was notable for the excel-
lence of its glaze and its satisfying tech-
nique. 0 0 0 0 0
When one considers the significant and
universal relationship of the applied arts to
everyday life, a relationship far more
intimate than any form of pictorial art can
claim, one wonders that there is no serious
WALL-HANGING AS WOVEN IN
SCANIA. BY GOTHENBURG
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS
(Swedish Applied Art Exhibition,
Gieves Gallery)
attempt, in any public or private gallery,
to hold regular exhibitions of the more
serious craftsmanship of other countries.
Surely the public should be as interested,
in such displays as in the collections of
modern pictures which so persistently in-
vite our attention. Selections of the best
available examples of contemporary work
would certainly have an important educa-
tional value, apart from their general in-
terest. A good display of continental glass-
ware, for instance, such as the small col-
lection from the Orrefors Bruks Aktiebolag,
included in this Swedish exhibition, em-
phasises the poverty of our own produc-
tions and suggests that better acquaintance
with the work produced abroad might help
to promote a revival of this delightful
craft which, at the present time, is almost
threatened with extinction in this country.
Is not beautiful glassware as important in
the home as the pictures which hang on our
walls i 0 0 0 0 0 0
The task of moulding public taste to a
truer appreciation of the relative value and
importance of applied art is by no means
easy, as one has to contend against firmly
CUP, HAND-HAMMERED AND
CHISELLED. DESIGNED BY R.
BERGMAN, EXECUTED BY AKTIE-
BOLAGET K. ANDERSON, STOCKHOLM
(Swedish Applied Art Exhibition, Gieves
Gallery)
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work which compels one's interest and
suggests attractive developments along de-
cidedly unconventional lines. Some of the
pottery shown was notable for the excel-
lence of its glaze and its satisfying tech-
nique. 0 0 0 0 0
When one considers the significant and
universal relationship of the applied arts to
everyday life, a relationship far more
intimate than any form of pictorial art can
claim, one wonders that there is no serious
WALL-HANGING AS WOVEN IN
SCANIA. BY GOTHENBURG
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS
(Swedish Applied Art Exhibition,
Gieves Gallery)
attempt, in any public or private gallery,
to hold regular exhibitions of the more
serious craftsmanship of other countries.
Surely the public should be as interested,
in such displays as in the collections of
modern pictures which so persistently in-
vite our attention. Selections of the best
available examples of contemporary work
would certainly have an important educa-
tional value, apart from their general in-
terest. A good display of continental glass-
ware, for instance, such as the small col-
lection from the Orrefors Bruks Aktiebolag,
included in this Swedish exhibition, em-
phasises the poverty of our own produc-
tions and suggests that better acquaintance
with the work produced abroad might help
to promote a revival of this delightful
craft which, at the present time, is almost
threatened with extinction in this country.
Is not beautiful glassware as important in
the home as the pictures which hang on our
walls i 0 0 0 0 0 0
The task of moulding public taste to a
truer appreciation of the relative value and
importance of applied art is by no means
easy, as one has to contend against firmly
CUP, HAND-HAMMERED AND
CHISELLED. DESIGNED BY R.
BERGMAN, EXECUTED BY AKTIE-
BOLAGET K. ANDERSON, STOCKHOLM
(Swedish Applied Art Exhibition, Gieves
Gallery)
8o