Illuminating Engineering Society, Association of Public Lighting Engineers (Great Britain) · [London] · leaf 131
irst,and, judging from what was offered us,we should demand what we liked. The art of this country fell to its verylowest ebb soon after the exhibition of1851, and twenty or thirty years laterWilliam Morris began to produce thingswhich were so beautiful that they createda demand. It was impossible… … Drawing-ioom illuminated by Louis XIV. candle-brackets. (Mr. A. P. Trotter.) Here came in the question of art. Tomany artists and architects and peoplewhose business it was to produce beautifulthings this was an appropriate andnatural subject to discuss, but illumin-ating and other engineers had to…
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