Abstract Historians tend to posit crafts and design as separate worlds, with crafts being handmade artifacts produced in limited numbers as studio practice, and design encompassing industrially manufactured “products” in large quantities. This polarization, as many have argued, appears problematic. The present article offers a case study to illustrate how manufacturing processes blurred connotations of materials and decoration and categorizations of modes of manufacturing during the years 1918 to 1940, when rhetoric regarding modernist design challenged existing handicrafts through shapes and materials evoking industrial design. The case study is the artistic production of the family firm and workshop of Wilhelm A. Kuyken Jr. whose core business was in roller prints for wallpapers and textiles. The firm was established in the Netherlands in 1904 and continued in Belgium in 1923. With the move of location, artistic production shifted from decorative panels in proto-Art Deco fashion manufactured in a reinterpreted artisan cloisonné technique around 1920, to chromed tubular metal furniture with wooden compartments representative of Western modernist industrial furniture design in the 1930s. Using documents and works from private family archives, the artifacts and production processes in the Netherlands and those in Belgium are linked and related to the look of materials and the debate about wood and metal in modernist furniture design.

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材料、艺术工艺和现代主义家具设计：荷兰和比利时的 Kuyken 公司 1918-1940

摘要 历史学家倾向于将工艺和设计视为独立的世界，工艺是工作室实践中生产的数量有限的手工制品，而设计则包含大量工业制造的“产品”。正如许多人所说，这种两极分化似乎有问题。本文提供了一个案例研究，以说明在 1918 年至 1940 年期间，制造过程如何模糊了材料和装饰的内涵以及制造模式的分类，当时关于现代主义设计的言论通过形状和材料唤起了工业设计，挑战了现有的手工艺品。案例研究是 Wilhelm A. Kuyken Jr. 的家族企业和工作室的艺术生产，其核心业务是壁纸和纺织品的滚筒印花。该公司于 1904 年在荷兰成立，并于 1923 年在比利时继续经营。随着地点的迁移，艺术生产从 1920 年左右采用重新诠释的工匠景泰蓝技术制造的原始装饰艺术风格的装饰面板转变为带有镀铬管状金属家具代表 1930 年代西方现代主义工业家具设计的木制隔间。使用来自私人家庭档案的文件和作品，荷兰和比利时的手工艺品和生产过程与材料的外观以及现代主义家具设计中关于木材和金属的争论有关。镀铬管状金属家具，带有代表 1930 年代西方现代主义工业家具设计的木制隔间。使用来自私人家庭档案的文件和作品，荷兰和比利时的手工艺品和生产过程与材料的外观以及现代主义家具设计中关于木材和金属的争论有关。镀铬管状金属家具，带有代表 1930 年代西方现代主义工业家具设计的木制隔间。使用来自私人家庭档案的文件和作品，荷兰和比利时的手工艺品和生产过程与材料的外观以及现代主义家具设计中关于木材和金属的争论有关。