International Studio
Cover by Aubrey Beardsley for the first issue of The Studio
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| Editor |
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| Categories | fine arts, decorative arts |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Publisher |
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| Founder | Charles Holme |
| Year founded | 1893 |
| First issue | April 1893 |
| Final issue — Number |
May 1964 853 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | London |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 0963-5092 |
The Studio was an illustrated fine arts and decorative arts magazine published in London from 1893 until 1964. The founder and first editor was Charles Holme. The full title was The Studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art. The Studio exerted a major influence on the development of the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements. In 1964 it was absorbed into Studio International magazine.
The Studio was founded by Charles Holme in 1893. Holme was in the wool and silk trades, had travelled extensively in Europe and had visited Japan and the United States with Lasenby Liberty and his wife Emma. During his travels he had formed:
... the idea of an art magazine crystallised around his recurring observation that the chief barrier between countries was language, and his belief that the more the culture of one part of the world could be brought "visually" to the attention of another, the greater the chance of international understanding and peace.
Holme retired from trade in order to start The Studio.
Holme had hoped to engage Lewis Hind as the editor of the new venture, but Hind went instead to William Waldorf Astor's Pall Mall Budget. He suggested Joseph Gleeson White as an alternative. Gleeson White edited The Studio from the first issue in April 1893. In 1895 Holme took over as editor himself, although Gleeson White continued to contribute. Holme retired as editor in 1919 for reasons of health, and was succeeded by his son Charles Geoffrey Holme, who was already the editor of special numbers and year-books of the magazine.
The magazine was monthly; 853 issues were published between April 1893 and May 1964.
The Studio promoted the work of "New Art" artists, designers and architects—it played a major part in introducing the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Charles Voysey to a wide audience—and it was especially influential in Europe.
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