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INDUSTRIAL ART.
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dazzling brightness, and with an extremely sharp and deep grinding.
The plain potteries of Höganäs have arrived at such a perfection
that they, too, deserve a place among works of decorative art.
The prehistoric age has bequeathed to us interesting, fine
metal-work, but jewelry has never held a high position in Sweden. Most of
our goldsmiths’ works of an older date are of foreign origin. Yet,
buckles and other ornaments belonging to the national costumes from
the 16th and 17th centuries are very interesting and original. Pieces
of coloured glass, to which the power of working miracles was
attributed, are incrusted in them. The eminent development of decorative
art in general has, however, also influenced jewelry, and many real
artists nowadays design beautiful jewels, splendid center-pieces, cups,
and other articles of luxury executed by our cleverest goldsmiths.
Among these ought to be mentioned the firms of Hallberg, Möllenborg
and K. Andersson in Stockholm.
It seems as if the working of base-metals for the purposes of
industrial art ought to be a grateful task in a country so rich in minerals
as Sweden, but that has not been the case in so high a degree as one
might expect. Nevertheless, it is true that the Eskilstuna work is
almost unsurpassed, that Messrs. Beskow’s and Norrström’s steel-etchings
are of rare beauty, and that nowadays the Förenade Konstgjuterierna
(United Artistic Foundries) in Stockholm are able to produce even the
largest works of plastic art.
The art of bookbinding has also received new impulses and
developed extremely. Also in that branch many an artist now collaborates
with the artisan. The addresses, portfolios, albums, and the like of
Messrs. Beck & Son, distinguish themselves for a great elegance and
solidity, and Mr. G. Hedberg’s book-covers are real works of art.
SvenHba Slöjdföreningen (The Swedish Industrial Art Society)
and many technical schools, especially the large Technical School in
Stockholm, where they teach all subjects belonging to decorative art,
have in their turn contributed in many respects to the exceptionally
rapid progress made during the last thirty years within all
departments of industrial art. And indeed, it is with the schools that the
matter rests to a certain extent. In their hands lies the education of
the young and the possibility of awaking the love of beauty and an
artistic conception craving beauty and perfection in even the smallest
homely and serviceable things.
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