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Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ctual needs of man, this and the dealer, and of course the teacher in the process ol adaptation can and will take place schools for industrial arts (Kunstgeverbeschulen) consciously, at least partly so, through the efforts Public buildings, dwelling houses, and last but ol a lew leaders pointing the way. by no means least, the factories, should be made The Deutsche Werkbund (Union of German in such a way as to elevate and stimulate the Art Industries), founded some fourteen years ago, mind and please the eye, thus encouraging joy is an association ol such leaders whose object is in life and at the same time joy in work. From to spread this it can be seen that, without emphasis being through all laid on the ethics in the case (as the Victorians classes the did according to the tendency of their time) here movement for aesthetics and ethics, joy in life and good business, ennoblingand by no means exclude each other: that, on the beautifying contrary, business is the gainer. And once the
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three thirty-I wo I i) 2 2 mceRHACionAL SOTM© building itscll is beautified, the con-tents ul course must be made tomatch, clow n to tin- simplest kitchenutensil. Even tin- humble kitchentumbler must have a graceful shape.We have no longer to listen tosermons on style, hut three pointsespecially must be kept in mmd,they being, so to speak, the A. B. C.of the Applied Arts, out of which,quite naturally, the style of the timewill develop. These points are:quality of work, genuineness ofmaterial, and development of thelorm in accordance with the char-acter of the article, thus preventingall superficial and forced ornamen-tation or concealment of construc-tive parts. Everything strivestoward genuineness, that is, in theethical sense, honesty. Sham in anyform is avoided. Machine madework must be quite openly machinemade, and not try to pose as handmade. Machine work can and ought to begenuine in its own way and well formed. For thatreason, trained artists and craftsmen must becalled in, no

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