Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 1 : Presscuttings, 1959-1962

Ar QUEENSLAND ectorNational Gallery dir (Mr. Robert Haines) is in New York to sup- ervise a dis- play of fur- niture de- signed a n d made by K r I trip e r. Aust rail leti outstand I n artist-Trafts- man. The display will ste, than.s be held In the Austra- lian Trade Commissioner's display centre on and af- ter October 25. Mr. Haines said KrImper was recog- nised In Australia by de- signers, architects, and lov- ers of fine furniture as the type of craftsman needed by Australian furniture manufacturing.-(A.A.P.) w An Australian furniture exhibi- tion which has Just opened in Rockefeller Centre Is proving a real pedestrian -stopper. Queensland National Art Gal- lery director, Robert Haines, now in New York, arranged the dis- play for the Australian Trade Commission. The furniture is custom built by a Melbourne man, Shulim 'crimper, New Yorkers say it's great stuff. .::UnNITURE AND BrD71"'15 Australian Analyzes American Design fora . - Boost l t An Ails! ralian furniture exhibition pm opened kockcicllcr in ('cntre is prov- ing Slogger . )(c slaniedaiiu NPeiodnefiliriAarnt. Gallery. vorkohe' f or R ti'Liarrangedi)es the display fur our. trade commission, he furniture is custom met man boilt by hleillo New York cn great. N' Sydney, N.S. "TELEGRAPH" Brisbane, Gild. IN; Visit over furniture Queensland National Art Gallery director i Mr. Robert Haines will leave Brisbane by air on Sunday for the United States to open an exhibition of Aus- tralian furniture. The furniture was made by a man who migrated to Australia from Europe 1'1 years ago. The furniture make!', Mr. Shulim Krimper. was descriped by Mr. Haines today as an artist crafts- man. Mr. Krimper. who lives in Melbourne. was inter- nationally famous for Is workman:duo Mr. Maine said today. MODERN MINDED MUSEUMS: Robert Haines, director of the Queensland Natfonal Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, is visiting this country as manager of an exhibition of furniture by Shulim Krim - per. The buffet illustrated (from the exhibition) Is typical of contemporary furniture designs col. lotted by Australian museums. Amerkan furniture design has erything that good design should have, hot the construction Is some- times appallingly poor. These are the words of Robert Raines, director of the Queensland National Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia. Mr. Haines In In this country as manager of an exhibi- tion of furniture by an Australian designer -craftsman, Shullin Krim - per, Mr, KrImper's works are eel* rentfy on view In the showman, of the Australian Government Trade Climmission, Shop 30 In the Rocke- feller Center Concourse 'see RE- TAILING. Oct. 29, 13. 10). Mr. Haines, has made a personal tour of New York furniture show looms and tele,. to title city as the th,ign fountainhead of the world. "Here you Wise collected the ab- solutely best from everywhere. The shops and showrooms carry old and new .furnit ure from all the major countries of the world.' Contemporary American furnnl- lure reflects Influence of Scandina- vian craftsmen more than the smithematleal perfection of Bauhaus designs, according to Mr. Raines. Bowever, it generally transcends pntionalietIc tendenciem to take Its place In the International design movement. "American design," he said, "has everything that good design should 111.111.1111111111/11111111111111111.111.11111111111111111111 Quirensland National .Art 1. alters, Director tAlr, Robert If:tines) will leave itrishane by air rarIV month far the United isitates to open all on of Australian hint - lure. The exhibition will lie held in the Rockeleller Centre, New York, be the Australian l'onninotWelith Department of Trade. The furniture, tv filch will feature Queensland lint - hers, tax 1/01.11 made be Internationally - known Melbourne furniture !maker ISIr, S. Krimper. Befare hie es Queenslandappointment National Art Gallery Director, Mr. Haines was for two Year; a lecturer In furniture at /Melbourne University's kehoml of .Architecture. Mr. Dallies said yester- day he hoped to %irk lead- ing American art galleries Re would return at the. end of October, nroportion, sUltablIlly of stand, ((,. by which In juil;;e what's materials It's tle,Thmeri for Its pm- . ,Uir ciiiintry." pose and fur the machine. .Ale. limns particularly empha- "It is also marked by a curious sizes hos, in the Brig- l'iipeisonal quality. American fur- bane em:..y ',caw, "they are siture is extremely 'haste, more e eryday thing, Dun people under - pure than Scandinavian design. I stand.' think .his is because It.'' country "The same things that apply to was founded al a time cc hen furni- sculpture - pine, form anti the like Lure was rather chaste," -apply to a water goblet or a chair. Mr. Haines' reservations about It isimperiani for people to under- Anorican design are poor construe- stand that they are acting an as iion !mind even In expensive lines, artist uilen they sweet. a chair. 1110 Iima tithing of overly chaste Whether make a rand cholee, ,i,.-1511 nod level of p,,:n1Inv taste. whether they act as fl good 8111,4 in (ohmr words, depend,, on ethic*. "On 'he whole I lino Americans extremely interested in their homes lion, lbat's where the museum and the taste level high. 1 was comes in." given pause to wonder by a ferry All e hibilion scheduled for next Trip to Staten Island. When walk- spring at the Brisbane gallery 18 ing down the maInstreet, I saw a "Which On You Prefer." Mr. Haines lamp In a shop window that f Is making a collection of good and ihimahl must he a joke. 11 was a had, old and new objects. There all a tligky blond-rotating on a will be telephones, chairs, shoes, base with a shade overhead. The seeks, hats, glasses, ashtrays - a owner evidentally sells these things potpourri of objects In everyday or he wouldn't show them." use either nosy or In the past. Mr. Haines had several comments The visitor to the rMlIbItlon will about the relation of the museum be asked to fill out a form given to contemporary furniture and to preferences between related oh - the consumer. He finds It surprie- Jects. Following the exhibition the ing that American museums, at museum will Issue a tall11,1411(' least In New York, do not make Mg its preferences and why. It will iermanent. collections of content- also give popular preferences. porary furniture, a practice of the Mr. Haines feels the exhibition gallery and Melbourne will help the consumer In the job gallery where he woe once assistant of discriminating between good and director. bad. -It is embarrassing, however," "It is Important In a young coon- he said, "to ask one of my Blenc, try Ilke Australia or the United If I may borrow a mirror or a hat States to collect contemporary fur- for the exhibition and then have to nishings of one's own and other say that. It will be an example of countries. Otherwise you have no 'bad'."