From Olympia to Burlington House is a long journey in all senses. 'I came away from the Arts and Crafts Society's exhibition feeling rather like cne of Bunthorne's 20 lovesick dens. Perhaps this is not quite fair. Much of the display strikes one as preposterous, if not hideous—Pottery of coarse material, crude shapes and uncouth decoration purposely aping the primitives but wholly without their vitality; statuettes a long way' after Epstein, and posters and woodcuts lamely limping after Picasso,, Who on edith can genuinely take pleásure in such stuff?
But there is also much that is truly beautiful. The furniture designers have lived through the excessive eccentricities of a few years ago and are producing new shapes which well show off the new woods, unvarnished walnut, birch and ash. Only the prices are terrifying, £73.15s for instance for a walnut wood writing bureau, and £53 for a toilet table, neither of which suggest superhuman labour. It is interesting to notice that by far the best designs are for radio sets and cocktail cabinets—the old truth that new requirements stimulate craftsmen to the most vital work.
Many of the textiles are beautiful, varying in weight from gossamer to heavy winter curtains, some hand-woven, others designs for the machine. There is much beautiful silver among which one is bound to say the most graceful is from Sweden, the only foreign contribution that I saw. And some of the statuary is delightful, especially a hippopotamus, and some circus types in glazed earthenware by a lady named' Kitty Evershed. The section devoted to This Schiaparellj-dressed lady is ecclesiastical] art, altar vesrele and wearing a jacket of rose wool with crosses, and designs for stained glass a skunk collar, Her skunk "pin windows, are of an exceptionally high wheel" hat is trimmed with gay wings, level.
What I liked best was the printing and bookbinding. There must be Nevertheless one can hardly be too something in the printer's craft which soon in wishing Shanghai readers as simply forbids "artiness." Even in pleasant a Christmas as may be and illuminated addresses, where -Gothic a happier New Year. In their mis-type is employed, the type is dignified fortunes, which from all the news and restrained; while the Roman One fears must be great, they can at type, large or small, was really a least console themselves with the joy. All the bookbinding, red, green, thought that their brave stand against blue or purple, beautifully tooled, adversity has received many warm was exquisite: one particularly noted tributes here, the taste with which the binding was adapted to the nature of the book. There is much to be said for the The Woman's Fair French custom of publishing books in paper covers and leaving the pur-Posters depicting a young woman chaser to choose a binding suitable with abnormally long legs flying over to his collection. the bonnet of a car—the modern version presumably of throwing your bonnet over the wind mills—have for
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