The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-31
AN ART EXHIBITION IN ITALY.
Americans Urged to Participate in
the Great Turin Affair.

Americans Urged to Participate in
the Great Turin Affair.
The State Department has received a note
from the italian Ambassador enclosing
/ programme OF an international exhibition
Of modern decorative art, to be held in the
Valentine Park Turin. from April to No
vember, 1902 The Ambassador expresses
the hope that artists and manufacturers
of the United States viii take part
The programme includes the following
| classes:
First Cl2sE-The modern house and It's
decorative eIements-Section / the paint
cd figured. or ornamental decoration Of
rooms or their parts Toll or frescoed
sketches of ceilings, friezes, panels, etc);
section 2, plastic or figured decoration Of
rooms or their parts Ceilings. friezes,
panels, etc, Of all materials. stone, metal,
terra Gotta, plaster, sandstone, paste
board, - -uraI OF composite woods: sec
ton 5, doors, windows, chimney-pieces,
etc; section 4. pottery vases. artistic OBJ
jects. bricks, floor tiles, artistic tiles etc);
section 5, glass vases. artistic objects,
stained-slass windows, painted glass;; ;
section s, mesaics (psvements, friezes.
panels, etc.; section 7, stuffs, carpets ia
pestries, GALLONS. and braids decorative
/ tissues and stuffs of all kinds, artistic
haasings); section 8. lace. embroidery.
table linen; section 6, wall papers, etc
section 10, leather and limitations painted,
stamped, and embossed); section II, arts
| tic basket work; section 70, metals Ten
| graved embossed beaten, melted: sec
tioQ 13 arSns and their accessories; section
| II, warming apparatus and their acces-
series Stoves, hot-air gratings, etc; FIRE
dogs. shovels. tongs- guards, etc.; sec
T4r~s,+
furniture; section H. furnishing items Cfor
the table, kitchen, toilet. etc.); section Is.
| silver, jewelry, enamels; section IS. med
| ais, moneys, decorative plates, seals,
/ plaquettes; section 90 graphic arts post
| ers, sketches, ex libris, Stamps, initials,
| headings tail pieces, cards tickets; sec
ton q, artistic prints. book illustrations;
| section z. art of bookbinGing
| Second cIRss-the modern room-Sectfon
/ q, rooms or complete apartments Che
| whole OF one CT more rooms; floors, walls
| ceilings, furniture, items. and accessories
| for the room or apartment).
| Third cIass-the house and street-Sec-
/ ton Il, plans of building and
of their parts distribution of
| rooms; section 3, plans of
| streets, squares, gardens, bridges. perch
! es. etc; section Is. exterior decoration of
| the house and street designs and models
/ Of ratings, baIustTades, posts, door
/ knockers, door handles, fountains,
| sconcesr lanterns; summer houses of all
! kinds, benches, house fronts, etc..
summary of the regulations is given
| below:
| Only original productions which show a
| decided tendency to the esthetic renewal
/ of the form will be admitted
! Neither simple limitations of past styles
/ nor Industrial productions not inspired by
a sense OF the artistic can be admitted
/ No one viii be allowed to exhibit OBJ
/ jects except those Of his own handiwork
! or manufacture. Exceptions viii be made
/ when an exhibitor. in order to complete
| his work, has necessarily to make use of
| materials which are not Of his own pro-
/ duction-
| The exhibition will be administered by
/ general commission presided over by the
| Duke of Aosta; in the principal towns of
| the Kingdom and abroad, the general
commission win nominate special com
| mittees-
! Those who desire TO take part in the ex-
hibitien are to send in to the general COM
mission, either directly or through the re-
spective committees or delegates, a dupi-
cate request for admission, with the nee
| essaTy descriptions.
Such requests must reach the general
commission not later than July 81, 1901
Exhihiters are exempted from payment
of any tax for location. They VIII con
tribute tax for individual inscription,
fixed at $1S3, which must me paid on the
receipt Of the letter of admission
Exhibitors must provide for the trans
pert OF their goods both IN coming and re
turning, also for their consignment at
the receiving ONCE within the exhibition,
for the opening OF the cases, for the plac-
ing of the objects. for eventual repairs,
and at the close Of the exhibition. for re-
packing. and for removal Of the special
stalls
The general commission viii employ
measures for obtaining temporary imper-
tations free of duty, as also reductions Of
carriage by rail or sea. etc.
All goods must be directed to the gen
eraI commission Cvia OspedaIe No. Is, Tu-
rIn). from Mach I to 81 1902.
Those who intend to make use Of the
space that the general commission VIII
place at their disposal must send in not
later than July g. 1891, the description OF
the room or group of rooms they may re-
quire, with special attention to the posi-
ton and dimensions of the various open
ings.
They must specify clearly whether they
intend to provide only fer the decoration
OF the room or for the furnishing of the
same, or whether for both.
Prizes viii be given: First for the best
plan OF d modern house, villa, ETC. sec
ond- for The best suite, composed of at
least three rooms destined for different
best economic suite composed as above
decorated as a whole fourth for the best
elegant room; fifth, for the best room of
an economic STAMP