ABSTRACT
An important artist, critic, and industrial designer, Lewis Foreman Day played an important role in the Arts and Crafts Movement, particularly in his efforts to relate the movement to industrial productions. He was one of the organizers of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and a one-time master of the Art-Workers’ Guild. In the very earliest instances of ornament, obedience to the law of use was a matter of course. If a savage carved the handle of his tomahawk, the carving was just sufficient to give him a tighter grip on the weapon; he would take very good care not to cut so deep as to weaken it. Certain objects, such as things purely ornamental, and certain portions of objects, such as the doors and panels of furniture, and the like, deserve prominence; and in these posts of honour the artist is justified in a freedom of treatment that elsewhere would be license.
