. International studio. formed by a plunge inmid-stream followed bya desperate effort toreach the shore in onedirection or the other;either towards a knowl-edge of the existingstatus of the arts andcrafts—modern art—ortowards the vanishingyet ever inspiring past,which has the lure forthe person possessingwithin his make-up apredilection for SHION FOUND IN THE TOM IS OF TIY S IARENTS one eigbty-Jour will journey towardantiquity in a search forthe origin of shapes andmotifs and the spiritualinterpretation of manythings which have beenaccepted as a part olour present lives. Thus a progressiveand
. International studio. formed by a plunge inmid-stream followed bya desperate effort toreach the shore in onedirection or the other;either towards a knowl-edge of the existingstatus of the arts andcrafts—modern art—ortowards the vanishingyet ever inspiring past,which has the lure forthe person possessingwithin his make-up apredilection for SHION FOUND IN THE TOM IS OF TIY S IARENTS one eigbty-Jour will journey towardantiquity in a search forthe origin of shapes andmotifs and the spiritualinterpretation of manythings which have beenaccepted as a part olour present lives. Thus a progressiveand expanded study ofthe furniture craft inEurope if pursued to itslogical beginnings in-evitably leads back toRome, Greece, Baby-Ionia and Egypt—evento the Far East—whereideas of no specialsignificance to the com-posite minds of themoderns were of most JUNE 1922 mceRDACionAL. A CHILD S CHAIR FOUND IN THE TOMB OF QUEEN TIY S PARENTS QUEEN \\\ S CHAIR vital significance to the artists and craftsmen of old. form-Egyptian furniture! On first thought one weirdmight be tempted tosay that, owing to theperishable nature ofwood andthe Iongtrainof centuries which hasrolled over this trulyancient land, a searchfor any such articles ofvalue would be as un-certain as looking forwater in the desert ofGobi. But in additionto the sparse yield ofactual specimens of thecraft in museums andprivate collections, theseeker may scan withmore or less profit theremarkable wall paint-ings and sculptures inwhich the early Egyp-tians have portrayedthe customs of theirdaily lives, the events,transitoryand epochal,of their national exist-ence and the strangemonstrosities—a fusionof man and animal
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