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RERAMIC STUDIO 
s by Marie Little 
Metal work by the Busck Studios, R. R. Jarvie, Laun 
e Smith. Pe wabic -Pottery, by Mary Chase 'Perry. 
ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY OF DETROIT, MICH. 
SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF HANDWROUGHT METAL, JEWELRY, 
ENAMELING AND VILLAGE INDUSTRIES. 
AN exhibition showing activity, healthy striving and 
fair accomplishment in some of the most important 
decorative arts, those upon which the seemliness of life 
depends, is that recently given at the Arts and Crafts 
Society of Detroit, Michigan. 
Organized in 1906, its permanent salesroom and ex- 
hibition opened in November of the same year. The 
Detroit Society owes its existence primarily to the initiative 
of two exhibitions held in 1904 and 1905 at the Museum 
of Art. The public interest thus aroused, resulted in the 
foundation of this Society, to develop a better apprecia- 
tion of artistic handicraft and to be of direct educational 
benefit through frequent special exhibitions of modern 
and ancient work, and through illustrated lectures. 
The setting and arrangement of the collections are in 
themselves a part of the exhibition, yet, of the many good 
things shown, nothing has been sacrificed to the decorative 
effect of the whole. 
One of the most noteworthy, as it is numerically the 
strongest, of the exhibits shown, is that of the Deerfield 
Society of Arts and Crafts, which has seldom, save at their 
own "Crafts Barn", been seen to such advantage. Mrs. 
Madeline Yale Wynne, long associated with the Society 
as its founder, was represented by a number of daringly 
successful examples of jewelry and enameling, the metal 
well worked and developed to its capacity, the designs 
showing much feeling for line, mass and color. In stitch- 
ery, the "Blue and White Society" excel, and their table 
sets in the well known cool blues, and their scarfs and 
curtains in the quaintly designed cross-stitch of varied 
colors, prove them again masters of their craft. 
At once practical and artistically satisfying were the 
In the illustration in right column are: Baskets by Pucumtuck basket weavers, 
Deerfield baset wkea vers and New Clairvaux Society; Markham vase, Grueby vase, 
Candlestick, by George Parker; Rug woven by Massachusetts Institution for Blind. 
