The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-02
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL ART

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products might not be confused with
those of its rival insisted that the
label. made IN Germany- be at
itached to all exhibits OF the latter.
Thus did France give germany
lby-word the world over
\ The industrial art exhibition that IS
being shown an the National Museum
develops the fact that America has
some factory products of which she
may well feel proud There are the
tapestries. for instance. Tie wearing
! OF tapestries is an art that mas
ichanged little from the days OF an
.cient Egypt. The same hand looms
are used that played their part In
those distant days Albert Herter'
well known as painter and murai
decorator, is largely responsible for
iAmerica That industry. center1ng1
around New York city. Is producing
materials as good as are made any
where in the world.
/: In work IN ornam entail iron the
United states takes the lead. In door
plates, gratings. andirons. lamp posts.
ornamental fences, the products OF
1.-THE American mills are most adm1ra-
,, be The development OF artistic iron
work was at its height in the days
iof the Renaissance. and was then used
most effectively The old master
pieces are reproduced nowadays. and
new designs fitted to modern uses
, have been developed. Most impress
siye specimens of art objects In iron
are shown at the exhibition in wash
:ington.
Cur glass is peculiarly an Amert-
can art Europeans do not go in
for cut glass. as it is an article that
has been originated in America and
finds its chief market here. so has its
manufacture been chiefly limited to-
this side OF the ocean. This leaves,
the artfst-artisan in this peculiar in
dustry practically without rival.
The manufacturers OF pottery and
china has been developed TO its most
! effective showing in France and Eng
land Yet there is great deal OF
lit turned out in America. There are
tcur; in Colorado and New jersey,
yet Ohio produces most of it. One
iof the great English manufacturers
recently stated that Europeans had
no cause to fear the American pro-
ducers with the exception OF single
plant which he mentioned and which,
he said, made as good pottery as any
| body in the world
| It. is claimed of the Amer
/! lean householder that he has
within him a desire to fur
nish his establishment in ac-
icordance with artistic taste. 1t is I'M
possible that the average man should
know the detail of how to accomplish
that this end For single living
room. there is the matter of tables.
! chairs. rugs curtains. wall hanglngs,
4 sculpture. pictures. are objects. He
must have advice as to details and
las to the harmony OF the whole II
lis no mean task to execute single
room properly
/ A committee of the american Fed
Eeration of Arts determined co furnish
a model room with the products of
EAmerican factories as part of the
Exhibition at the national museum
1t called upon the manufacturers TO
contribute the different details. The
furniture came from a certain group
LOT manufacturers. the drapery silks
were woven by the mills that were
considered TO take the lead in that
line, the rugs of Persian design were
/ from another source, fabrile glass
vases appear in colorful effects on the
tall mantle. The color scheme of the
room is in brown and tans. The pic
lures on the walls are by American
| painters and the screens are embrotd-
Tered by American women Lamp
shades are of parchment, shedding a
mellow glow through the pig skin To
him who wants a living room for an
AMBITIOUS establishment here is a
model that 1t might be wise to copy.
1.-THE best authorities consider it the
Icorrect setting forth OF what such an
apartment in an American home
ishou1d be.
| It is claimed that the present sit
uation should prove to be of ultimate
great benefit to America. The fact
that the United States has not dew
ie1oped industrial art independence
lis not attributed to lack of artistic
sense. but to the fact that what was
needed might be easily obtained in
! Europe. With the source of designs
removed. it is expected that the pos
sibility of its competent creation in
America will soon be forthcoming.
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