Show V VULGARITY U L GARITY IN DESIGN jet jewelry elry furniture and arid alric a drad th tbt as shock the chete th ete there is nothing in modem modern life more discouraging to the person of taste than the deliberate vulgarity in ill design which i is is EO so conspicuous in modern manu manufactures fao and this is especially true in those matters mattera of adornment or luxury where it would bo be supposed that if anywhere would be found the evidences of refinement and cultivation if in the articles with which the dwellings and the persons of the are adorned adorne dono ono does not find evidences of good taste it is indeed a discouraging outlook for seeker and yet it ia Is in precis precisely ely in these things that the most flagrant violations of all vest esthetic betic canons arc are encouraged one hag has but to consider the tricks of the makers of jewelry to understand the extent to which this evil has gone the last whim of the tile makers of slang is to bo be seen in the win windows lowd of the jeweler wrought out in precious stones the art of the cunning goldsmith is devoted to the making of pigs pip in gold and gems now it is some other beast inartistic again it Is some idiotic pun which ia is enshrined in costly tones 0 I 1 I 1 J I 1 A 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 richen u a yel telo p pher 11 e anal nalia ia of the turf the adz t 0 or what hat not alft g a I 1 th abich t the 1 te m modern 0 dera world or ldA 6 bad 11 tb this i lin ca A s line e 6 E v e n 44 and vulgar designs which are the ca in the cases of respectable a to be 11 the feminine 1 leg or foot the tl I 1 and bemi semi all indecent 0 aft peal to the cesa taste of k certain only of men but of w ane elnen cla k who patently parent ly perfectly p proper roper in ani society abati abt ti the designs of furniture brae are arc it if anything woree worse us arid ax h it that there here are good d designate is tt 1 I 1 to but i it is no less true that the bet at cheap vulgarity is helgi I 1 at its w he height 9 hl the hard and arid S execution of mechanical m would be tol tolerable erable only 8 1 acl I lieu by the most delicate delica loni and aai air taste is made mad 0 the more deffa n tew coarse and b forced manner maliner I 1 law a W III it used sed when the de designer signer I 1 ch past to purloin a design it goes to lie hit t the he popular taste he be select sela wah coco motive of the worn imrij ihira a role rule it is in direct k to its worthlessness when one compares the 0 ornain duame today with ith those of the bes t I 1 ines tand fathers he may well asit kcjr wk car our grandchildren w will 1 11 have J reason to respect abe their ir heir Immis 00 fe IZ have I 1 1 to look with pride up on our one takes the so called souvenir with which the shop windows window h ha failed filled how many of them are greeves evet e able in design 4 it is always easier casier to find fault to find out a remedy and it is n t edly arno that in t the 0 present ca matter is largely tho the result of ta creaso crease of material prosperity abo those SO cl classes aws i where ahe r neither taste sa s1 ia telli genco gence has had tim time 0 to be dev binl 4 the markets are controlled to it extent by the new rich an and 4 it is r ri natural that the impress 0 of f their T ity should bo be left in a broad man mark the arts of tho the time it is no lie ae lea abroad however than it is in t this h J try that the desi designers gl le have ave ap appan degenerated and the explanation does not eo so well apply abr abroad a as ia im I 1 country no doubt tho the taste of the work being educated but the problem to M is to ducato tho the taste of the many of the taste of the few said H ft far more difficult than any ZA which k ever been presented to the dero decea ei the rest aesthetic betic in the history before boston courier |