THE CRAFTSMAN


  ear successors are to he true citizens and integral parts of the Common-
Wath, we must choose camfully the objects by which Uee surmund our.
i'es; bringing our judgment to bear upon them as fully as lpe do upon
i books, our studies and our companions. We must support an art
ýetd by the people for the people: simple, sincere and structural;
an
 whemrin the designer and the craftsman shall be one and the same Indi-
: at, creating for his own pleasure and unassailed by commercialism.
                    SIt is in this spirit that the Master and Associates
of
 ~t~nfted Crafts Produce their cwork and await results.


              The artistic quality of the Rush or Reed has been
Ignored by the cabinet-maker.  The strength and durability of Its
Pe largely caused its employment. But it [ends itself easily to
color and textile schemes. Made soft and pliable, and retaining
2ariegations, it gives a whote gamut of greens, with occasional
Is punctuating what otherwise were a too spiritless mass of color.
often combined with the mellow, tones of ""fumed oak," as
we
certain chairs and seats recently produced in the workshops of the
afts.  The combination cannot be otherise than a perfed one,
ised upon Nature as displayed in the autumn woods.



     The examples of cabinet-making shoewn in this
         magazine are from the wcorkhops of the
            United Crafts, East'wood, &.. Y.