Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0692768270 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Today her Radio City designs can still be seen in the legendary venue, and her fabrics reside in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art; the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum at FIT; and the Allentown Art Museum.In this volume, essays highlight Mergentime’s life and career, and over 150 images illustrate her designs that brought asymmetry, politics, folk art and quizzes to the table. Articles and advertisements promoted her career across the United States. A member of the influential American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen (AUDAC), Mergentime was a woman whose career placed her alongside Donald Deskey and Russel Wright, as we
(Daniella Ohad Daniella on Design) . You may still find it hard to remember the name but the work is unforgettable. (Steven Heller Print Mag)A comprehensive volume that presents the personal voiceand comes to illuminate the career of this designer who came to shape a new sensibility of the American home. A treat for what it brings to light of the pre-war modern home-style sensibility that blends modernist abstraction with representational floral motifsand an unusual typographic sensibility