ABSTRACT
Roger Eliot Fry was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Fry has often been seen as a major campaigner for modernism in the early years of the twentieth century, but he had an important role in design and architectural issues before that. Fry intimated that objects reveal much of the social and moral conditions of their production suggesting that ‘the profound division between the culture of the people and the upper classes which the renaissance effected has been bad for both’. Mrs Koehler, the jewellery artist who was the subject of this review, was a founding member of the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society and taught china painting, jewellery and metalsmithing. Jewellery has always counted as an applied art, although, in spite of having existed before ever clothes were, it can boast a glorious inutility.
