The Furniture of Tomorrow (Art Workers Guild), 1939
End Date: 3 February 1939
Type: Lecture and discussion
Description: S. Chermayeff read a paper arguing that, though 'machine-made furniture was the logical outcome of modern social conditions [...] it was the artist's function to control the use of the machine'. G. Russell followed, showing slides. H. T. Smith opened the discussion, followed by R. Garbe, J. R. Biggs, H. G. Murphy, L. D. Luard, H. Stabler, C. Emanuel and L. Walker. Chermayeff took questions (Fifty-sixth annual report of the committee of the Art Workers' Guild, 1940, p. 11).
Policy: 'Meetings are held fortnightly, when papers are read and their subjects illustrated as fully as possible. Visitors must be introduced by a member' (Year's Art, 1913, pp. 169-70).
Sources
The fifty-sixth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1940
1940
p. 11
Citing this record
'The Furniture of Tomorrow (Art Workers Guild), 1939', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib2_1221141612, accessed 30 Sep 2023]
