. International studio. siS S@wlS W$ ml pj m lil jBSl fe©j $i Fl w\ P| ifik P^ |f?§* pa i%^ »IS£j 18 %\M |§ *&i 8|| if(j5)i 111 O w a forge-room on the ground floorwith the assembly room above, twogreat, light-flooded rooms Idledwith forges, piles of iron irods, toolracks and benches,with two score craftsmenlaboring with one kind ofmetal, for the most part,and turning the dull, rusty-looking iron into forms ofexquisite, silvery - tonedgrace. Workrooms theseare, and also it is Mr. Yellins habit,as the master, to giveregular weekly lectures onart and the craft of the ironworker t
. International studio. siS S@wlS W$ ml pj m lil jBSl fe©j $i Fl w\ P| ifik P^ |f?§* pa i%^ »IS£j 18 %\M |§ *&i 8|| if(j5)i 111 O w a forge-room on the ground floorwith the assembly room above, twogreat, light-flooded rooms Idledwith forges, piles of iron irods, toolracks and benches,with two score craftsmenlaboring with one kind ofmetal, for the most part,and turning the dull, rusty-looking iron into forms ofexquisite, silvery - tonedgrace. Workrooms theseare, and also it is Mr. Yellins habit,as the master, to giveregular weekly lectures onart and the craft of the ironworker to his men. Notlong ago the members ofthe Philadelphia Chapter ofthe American Institute ofArchitects visited his shopin a body and, after givingthe members a talk on hiscraft and its relation toarchitecture, Mr. Yellintook them out into theshop and showed them in a A WROUGHT IRON CHEST IN THE FRENCH GOTHIC MANNER, BY SAMUEL YELLIN AN IRON SCREEN DESIGNEDIN THE SPANISH MANNER BY SAMUEL YELLIN With pract witl This. ical manner how he workedhis hammer at forge and method of inter-esting the architects in hiscraft is chiefly due to conviction thatthe architect must workwith the craftsman if thegild and its products are toprogress in the UnitedStates. This relationexisted in the golden age ofthe iron worker, and it mustbe revived completely, hedeclares, if the crafts are toapproach their old perfec-tions, a state toward whichthey are not working todayfor the reason that archi-tects do not encourage themin the proper measure. One of the chief causesof the lack of the develop-ment of the craft of the ironworker in this country, says, is the fact thatiron is used as a barrierand not as a bridge tocarry its user over an en-trance way. Only once, inhis experience as an iron AUGUST 1922 Jour tbirty-tbree nice RfiACtonAL SOT3I© worker in the Unittd States, lias an architect paid figure ol a medieval monk, holding a book in onehis material the compl
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