Finding New Talent

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 931, 26 March 1930, Page 6

Finding New Talent

ARTS SOCIETY COMPETITION

Industrial Designs for 1930

TO give new talent a chance of finding its way before experts to help young architects and designers who may be handicapped through lack of funds, the Royal Society of Arts, London, holds a competition each year in conjunction with the leading business houses of England. The schedule for this year’s competition, which is to he held at London in June, 1930, has just come to hand.

The competition, which is the seventh of its kind organised by the society, is for industrial designs, broadly speaking. The sections in elude competitions for architectural decoration, furniture designing, tex tiles, pottery and advertising. In all scholarships amounting to £1,900 are given in connection with the compefi tioa. Most of the prizes are given by firms interested in the various sections, but there are two scholar ships. The Art Congress Studentship was founded by Sir William Cuthbert Quilter in 1906. The scholarship, amounting to £SO, is given for any section, the main condition being that the competitor is not more than 28 years of age. The winner of the studentship will be expected to use the £SO in the furtherance of his studies in a manner approved by the council of the Royal Society of Arts. The James H. Hyde Travelling Scholarship is given for the competitor whose designs show the greatest merit in the section of architectural decoration or textiles. The age limits are over 17 and under 30. The winner is required to live on the Continent for at least three months to study foreign art, either in museums or schools. “If the successful com petitor be a girl,” the conditions state, “she or her parents or guardians will be required to satisfy the society that suitable arrangements will be made for her chaperonage during the period pf residence abroad.”

Under the section of architectural decoration the prizes are as follow: £2O for a set of three black and white drawings of any architectural subject; £SO for the design of a metal screen for a small church; £5 for the best lettering on any plan submitted in all sections; £2l for a fireplace in wood, marble or stone, £35 for a glazed screen as suited for the entrance foyer of a fashionable hotel; £lO 10s for a central electric light fitting and wall bracket to match; £lO for a dull glazed surround to suit a wooden mantel; £lO 10s for a litany desk in wood. Furniture section: £25 for designs for the complete furnishing and decoration of a dining room in a small house. A condition is that the design of the furniture and character of the decoration must be entirely modern and not adapted from any traditional style. It is understood that the income of the householder does not exceed £SOO a year, and competitors are required to keep this important fact steadily before them The second furniture and decoration sub-section is in connection with a first-class saloon cabin on a liner, and the P. and O. Line is offering as prizes two tickets to the value of £2l on any fortnights’ summer cruise with £lO 10s cash to cover expense ashore. Entries are to be received at the imperial College of Science and Technology, Imperial Institute Road, London, S.W., on June 13.