Internees displaying some of the items they had made. They would hold ‘industrial exhibitions’ of their work, many of which were created for sale and it tends to be these which now turn up as antiques today.
© The Knockaloe Charitable Trust knockaloe.im
A local community charity on the Isle of Man, the Knockaloe Trust, keeps alive the memory of the German internees housed there in the First World War and aids research. Two years ago it created a garden on the site of the camp incorporating a bronze statue of a seat by Tom Krasny, a graduate of the Master of the Fine Art Programme at the Glasgow School of Art. This was based on a seat designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and originally made by the internees, created for the guest bedroom of of 78 Derngate.
The seat was pictured in The Ideal Home magazine for August 1920, and also later in a January 1927 supplement to the magazine in the guest bedroom of the Bassett-Lowkes’ new house, New Ways, in Wellingborough Road, Northampton.
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