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Wainwright, Shirley B: Introduction
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INTRODUCTION
individual sections. The subjects of competition include a great number of
subdivisions coming under the following main sectional headings : Textiles,
Furniture, Book-Production, Pottery and Glass. The Society’s Diploma
will be conferred on any candidate of outstanding ability, and it is hoped
that this award will soon come to be recognized as a hall-mark of excel-
lence, and anyone possessing it be known as a designer of distinction.
The results of the first competition, to be held in June next, will be
awaited with considerable interest. It is proposed to exhibit at the
Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, a selection of the
designs sent in.
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W TP TT
The British Institute of Industrial Art represents another organized attempt
to bring about an improvement in the design of objects produced commer-
cially. Reference has been made in previous issues of the YEAR BOOK
to the aims and achievements of the Institute, which has now been in
existence for some years, and one is glad to find the promoters still actively
pursuing their ideals. The exhibition held under their auspices in
September last, in the galleries of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South
Kensington, must be regarded as a considerable achievement when one
takes into account the almost insuperable difficulties which have to be over-
come by the sponsors of such a scheme. A comprehensive display of
industrial objects of this description should have a useful influence, and one
regrets that the public were not better informed of the enterprise. Lack
of adequate and efficient publicity must have militated seriously against the
value of a very interesting exhibition, and there is a danger that potential
exhibitors may be discouraged from submitting their work for consideration
on a future occasion. The atmosphere of a museum, moreover, is not a
favourable one for the display of modern furniture and decorative objects
under conditions likely to appeal to the general public. Perhaps, if more
financial support were forthcoming, the Institute might be persuaded to
exhibit the next collection they get together in a more sympathetic environ-
ment and to consider more effective measures for attracting the public.
-y. -y. .y.
■Jr *Jv* •Jr
The British Empire Exhibition, about to open at Wembley, should provide
an excellent opportunity for bringing the best decorative modern work into
prominence and thereby encourage practical recognition from our own
people and from visitors to this country. One hopes that the efforts that
have been made by the responsible executive to this end will help to
promote a vigorous interest in applied art generally. In order that our
present generation of designers may be adequately represented at
Wembley, an interesting competition was recently organised by Country
Life, with the active approval of the Exhibition authorities, by which it
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individual sections. The subjects of competition include a great number of
subdivisions coming under the following main sectional headings : Textiles,
Furniture, Book-Production, Pottery and Glass. The Society’s Diploma
will be conferred on any candidate of outstanding ability, and it is hoped
that this award will soon come to be recognized as a hall-mark of excel-
lence, and anyone possessing it be known as a designer of distinction.
The results of the first competition, to be held in June next, will be
awaited with considerable interest. It is proposed to exhibit at the
Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, a selection of the
designs sent in.
•it- M. -it-
W TP TT
The British Institute of Industrial Art represents another organized attempt
to bring about an improvement in the design of objects produced commer-
cially. Reference has been made in previous issues of the YEAR BOOK
to the aims and achievements of the Institute, which has now been in
existence for some years, and one is glad to find the promoters still actively
pursuing their ideals. The exhibition held under their auspices in
September last, in the galleries of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South
Kensington, must be regarded as a considerable achievement when one
takes into account the almost insuperable difficulties which have to be over-
come by the sponsors of such a scheme. A comprehensive display of
industrial objects of this description should have a useful influence, and one
regrets that the public were not better informed of the enterprise. Lack
of adequate and efficient publicity must have militated seriously against the
value of a very interesting exhibition, and there is a danger that potential
exhibitors may be discouraged from submitting their work for consideration
on a future occasion. The atmosphere of a museum, moreover, is not a
favourable one for the display of modern furniture and decorative objects
under conditions likely to appeal to the general public. Perhaps, if more
financial support were forthcoming, the Institute might be persuaded to
exhibit the next collection they get together in a more sympathetic environ-
ment and to consider more effective measures for attracting the public.
-y. -y. .y.
■Jr *Jv* •Jr
The British Empire Exhibition, about to open at Wembley, should provide
an excellent opportunity for bringing the best decorative modern work into
prominence and thereby encourage practical recognition from our own
people and from visitors to this country. One hopes that the efforts that
have been made by the responsible executive to this end will help to
promote a vigorous interest in applied art generally. In order that our
present generation of designers may be adequately represented at
Wembley, an interesting competition was recently organised by Country
Life, with the active approval of the Exhibition authorities, by which it
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