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Decorative Arts Society Volume 22, Volume Number 2 newsletter fall2014 DAS Newsletter

Volume 22 Editor Gerald W.R. Ward Number 2 Senior Consulting Curator & Fall 2014 Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and The DAS Sculpture Emeritus The DAS Newsletter is a publication Museum of Fine Arts, Boston of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. The Boston, MA purpose of the DAS Newsletter is to serve as The Decorative Arts Society, Inc., is a a forum for communication about research, exhibitions, publications, conferences and Coordinator founded in 1990 for the encouragement other activities pertinent to the serious Ruth E. Thaler-Carter ofnot-for-profit interest in, theNew appreciation York corporation of, and the study of international and American deco- Freelance Writer/Editor exchange of information about the rative arts. Listings are selected from press Rochester, NY decorative arts. To pursue its purposes, releases and notices posted or received the Society sponsors meetings, programs, from institutions, and from notices submit- Advisory Board seminars, tours and a newsletter on the ted by individuals. We reserve the right Michael Conforti decorative arts. Its supporters include to reject material and to edit material for Director museum curators, academics, collectors length or clarity. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and dealers. We do not cover commercial galleries. Williamstown, MA The DAS Newsletter welcomes submis- Officers sions, preferably in digital format, by e-mail Wendy Kaplan President in Plain Text or as Word attachments, or Department Head and Curator, David L. Barquist on a CD and accompanied by a paper copy. Decorative Arts and Design H. Richard Dietrich, Jr., Curator Images should be provided at high quality Los Angeles County Museum of Art of American Decorative Arts (400 dpi), preferably as TIFFs or JPEGs, ei- Los Angeles, CA ther color or black-and-white, with detailed Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA captions. Charles Venable The newsletter of the DAS is published Director & CEO two times a year. Submission deadlines Indianapolis Museum of Art Vice President for 2015: March 31 for the spring issue; Indianapolis, IN Nicholas Vincent September 30 for the fall Research Associate, American issue. Please send material to Ruth E. Thal- Gillian Wilson Decorative Arts er-Carter, DAS Newsletter Coordinator, at: Curator emeritus, Department of Metropolitan Museum of Art 2500 East Avenue, #7K Decorative Arts and Sculpture New York, NY Rochester, NY 14610 J. Paul Getty Museum or: Los Angeles, CA Treasurer [email protected] Stewart G. Rosenblum, Esq. Ghenete Zelleke New York, NY 585-248-8464, phone Samuel and Patricia M. Grober Curator, 585-248-3638, fax European Decorative Arts Secretary Art Institute of Chicago Veronica Conkling To better serve our contributors and Chicago, IL the decorative arts community, the DAS Independent Research Consultant website may provide information about Washington, DC events that fall between issues. Please send change-of-address information by e-mail to Secretary@ DecArtsSociety.org.

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Cover image: Water Pitcher (Ewer), mouth-blown colorless glass, black ink feather-pen drawing with gilding. Designed by Karl Massanetz, made in Klostermühle, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire, for J. & L. Lobmeyr GmbH, Vienna, Austria, 1913–1914. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. See page 2, News and Acquisitions. DAS news DAS to enjoy special tour of new Cooper Hewitt The Decorative Arts Society will hold aprivate tour of the newly reopened Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum led by Sarah D. Coffin, curator and head, Product Design and Decorative Arts Department, at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 Under renovation since 2008, the museum (in the former 5th Avenue residence of Andrew Carnegie) has dramatically increased gallery space while reimagining the visitor experience through interactive, immersive creative technologies. Ms. Coffin will lead us through the new galleries and exhibition spaces, and share insights about the renovation and reinstallation. Space is limited to 20 people and will be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. Guests who become contributors to the Decorative Arts Society, Inc.are welcome. Because invitations have been mailed to current contributors, the tour may already be fully subscribed. RSVP by January 9, 2015, by mailing a check for $15 per person made payable to Decorative Arts Society, Inc. to: DAS c/o Stewart G. Rosenblum, 333 East 69th Street, # 8E, New York, NY 10021. (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has graciously waived the usual private tour charge. The program fee is to cover our group admission to the museum.) Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel to and from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Please note that changes may occur in the program beyond the control of the DAS. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Nicholas Vincent at [email protected] or 212-650-2415. President’s letter Wrapping up a lively year in the decorative arts By David L. Barquist, H. Richard Dietrich, Jr., Curator of American Decorative Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA) s 2014 draws to a close, I’m city’s tremendous energy and diver- visiting additional historic Chicago reminded of the wonderful trips What Would Mrs. Aand events that the Decorative Webb Do? (see Exhibitions) offered a Arts Society, Inc. (DAS) has sponsored fascinatingsity. The exhibition counterpoint in chronicling presidentsites and institutions. Nicholas Vincent, secretary over the past year as part of our mis- Aileen Osborn Webb’s role in found- VeronicaThe officers Conkling of the and DAS treasurer — vice Stew - sion to foster knowledge and interest ing the American Craft Council and art Rosenblum American Craft Museum In April, we gathered in Philadel- Looking ahead to 2015, we have always, the newsletter — have is workedin the excellent very inphia the at field the timeof decorative of the Philadelphia arts. arranged a special private .tour on handshard in of planning coordinator all these Ruth programs. Thaler- As Antiques Show to tour the museums January 21 of the newly renovated Carter, with the steady guidance of its and historic houses for which this city Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design longtime editor, Gerry Ward is renowned, as well as exceptional Museum in NYC with curator (and Your participation in these pro- private collections ranging from the longtime DAS supporter) Sarah Coffin . DAS are vital to sustaining the organi- We are also planning a visit to Chi- grams and your contributions to the colonial The erasame to eVictorianxciting mix flamboyance was seen cago(see abovefrom March and next 20–22 page). for a private to stunning contemporary craft. tour of the Art Institute’s landmark zation and its mission. We look forward Ireland: Crossroads of Art to your involvement in the new year. by contributors who joined our trip to and Design, 1690–1840 (see Exhibi- In this issue toProvidence, have director Rhode Glenn Island, Adamson in July. host tionsexhibit, DAS news 1 us asIn the Sept Museumember, weof Artwere and privileged Design coincide with a day-long symposium ). The trip has been designed to Cooper Hewitt reopening 2 - scheduled in connection with the Events 3 News 4 thein New MAD York. Biennial He offered many fascinat Acquisitions 5 ing insights into how they assembled openedexhibit. DASespecially participants for us and will to be choose able to People 9 , a vibrant exhibition tour several notable private collections Exhibitions 13 of work by contemporary “makers” in New York City that reflected the between attending the symposium or Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Fall 2014/1 Cooper Hewitt launches new look

transformed Cooper Hewitt, Sarah Coffin, - Smithsonian Design Museum curator and head, of the museum’s ties thanks to Bloomberg Connects, A– the only museum in the United ProductA special Design tour and led Decorative by Arts Bloombergfull range of Philanthropiesnew interactive capabili’ digital States devoted exclusively to historic Department (see page 1), will give DAS engagement program, including the and contemporary design – has re- opportunity to explore the collection opened in the renovated and restored the new aspects of the museum and its Carnegie Mansion on New York City’s supporters a behind-the-scenes look at digitally on ultra-high-definition touch- The new space has 60 percent opening exhibitions and installations. - Ascreen newly tables, developed draw Pentheir further own designs enhanc - Museum Mile. cated For to theshowcasing first time the in thepermanent museum’s and solve real-world design problems. - history, the entire second floor is dedi- The transformation of the his- tions,more exhibitionmany drawn space from and the its museum’s 10 estoric the Carnegie visitor experience. Mansion, the former permanentinaugural exhibitions collection andof more installa than collection The museum through also a variety now features of exhibi a residence of Andrew Carnegie, into a tions. - 210,000 objects that span 30 centuries, feature more than 700 objects through out four floors of the mansion.

Tall Green Bloom urn, 3-D printed nylon; 41 x 18 cm (16 1/8 Pulpit Model with Staircase, carved, inlaid, marquetried and veneered x 7 1/16 in.), 2012; designed by Michael Eden (English, b. walnut, pear, and oak. France, mid-19th century. Photo: Ali Elai, © 1955). Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Photo: Smithsonian Institution. Ellen McDermott, © Smithsonian Institution.

2/Fall 2014 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. 21st-century preserved the - spirit and character of the historicHewitt retail granite space, piers 90th of the Street museum’s en restoring key elements and tranceThinc canopy Design and LED conceived lighting theof the makinglandmark much-needed building while sys - Tools Local Projects tem upgrades that provide focusedfence. on the design and production exhibition design. Ideum developed the multi-user ultra- more flexibility to reduce of the interactive media experiences.Gop - exhibition installation time, pion better accommodate the high-definition interactive tables. movement of objects and engineered and fabricated the enhance public access on caseworkPentagram in the first-designed and second-floorthe muse- every level. galleries. the renovationSeveral new process, books Chester Jenkins of Village designed includingare tied to Life exhibitions of a Mansion: or um’s new graphic identity and signage. The Story of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Muse- the transformationcontemporary new of the “Cooper museum and um - Hewitt” typeface, that launches withGE design community, Sistelnetworks by Heather Ewing (pub andis available Undercurrent for free download.comprised Thethe historylished by of Cooper the mansion Hewitt). and international team that converted the This publication relays the concept of the Pen into consumer hard- with 200 photographs, of the museum. Illustrated- - ware.tures one-of-a-kind items, and a café, themaps, 110-year floor plans history and of let the A new SHOPTarallucci Cooper e HewittVino, has fea a ters, the book chronicles - ing and the evolution of the operated For more by information, call 212- Nationalmuseum Landmarkfrom when build it was greenmarket-inspired menu. Hewitt www.cooperhewitt.org; sisters in 1897 to its status and849-8400; follow visitthe museum Cooper Hewitt’son www.twitter. post-renovationestablished by the in 2014 as websitecom/cooperhewitt, at www.facebook.com/ the nation’s design author- Birdcage, blue glass and metal. cooperhewitt and www.instagram.com/ cooperhewitt ity. • Models & Prototypes . All of the first floor is devoted to- • Beautiful Users tiveworks experiences from the museum’s that draw collection.the visitor • Maira Kalman Selects intoExhibitions the design are processenhanced and by show interac how • Passion for the Exotic: Events Lockwood de Forest, The former Carnegie Family Li- Frederic Church CLAY @ PLAY: Irony, Humor & design can solve real-worldLockwood problems. de Forest , Immersion Room Whimsy in the Ceramic Arts the leading American exponent of the Process Lab 2nd Bunting Biennial Ceramics brary, created by • the new Symposium and preserved as part of the Cooper • the hands-onGluckman Mayner Archi- Birmingham Museum of Art Aesthetic Movement, has been cleaned tects The designed project the involved interior 13 renovation design Birmingham, AL partners. www.artsbma.org Hewitt renovation. It is the only extant executive architect Beyer Blinder February 27–28, 2015 interior by de Forest still situated in Belleof the Architectsmansion, in & collaboration Planners LLP with, This symposium explores themes the building for which it was created. which oversaw the engineering, master of itsThe enhanced, exhibitions expanded inaugurating and more the planning and historic-preservation new Cooper Hewitt take fullExhibitions advantage in the ceramic arts by considering the- Hood Design is creating the tualsubject foundation in historical of irony, and geographicalhumor and flexible• Designing gallery space the New (see Cooper aspects of the project. Diller Scofidio whimsycontexts. in Themes the ceramic include arts; the materials contex for specifics) Hewitt and include: + Renfro designed the casework and and processes; formal and conceptual • Tools: Extending Our Reach original garden design. language; case studies of individual art- • Making Design display cases, and designed the new • Hewitt Sisters Collect the initial configuration of the movable ists, movements, etc.; and iconography visitor services desk, SHOP Cooper of the artist or cultural group. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Fall 2014/3 News Balti- of the Red Wing Stoneware Company, more Museum of Art (MD) reopened Catalogue category of the American which started making products in the • The American wing of the Alliancehonorable of mention Museums in the(AAM) Exhibition 2014 windows, mosaic columns, vessels, in November with a galleryTiffany featuring and late 1870s. Production stopped in 1967 Exhibi- toPublications the art and Design activities Competition. of the artistic It and started up again in the 1980s. - tionsclocks and furniture by groupaccompanied Cercle andan exhibition Carré (Circle dedicated and ganized • Sections for display of gilded in reproduction 18th-century of members of his circle (see Square) and focuses primarily on the periodwalls and rooms other at items a French are governmentbeing reor relocate). its McMullen Museum of Art into •a Bost1927on Renaissance College (MA) Revival plans manto - sion acquired from the Archdiocese of works displayed in the group’s 1930 building on Rue Vieille du Temple in exhibition in Paris or those featured in the Marais. Items will include vases, athe group group’s or discussed self-titled together periodical. for The more furniture, brackets, doors, shutters, Boston, which will double its exhibition exhibition featured works not seen as pilasters, fireplace mantels, mirrors, space. The new space is scheduled to Metropolitan Museum of balustrades,Sterling light fixtures, and Francine hardware, Clark Fentonopen in Art2016. Glass has closed its plant thanArt (New 80 years. York, NY) has restored and Artmurals Institute and more. (Williamstown, MA) has (Williamstown, • The glassmaking WV) after company more than • The reopened • The after completing a 12-year, window depicting prophets, sinners including more than 600 vessels, were is reinstalling a 1530s French church Wadsworth Atheneum auctioned100 years. inThe July contents while the of itsNational museum, $145-millionMuseum of Art expansion project. Fenton Glass Society and Fenton relatedand Noah’s windows ark. The in apiece reproduction is about of a received• The a collective $750,000 from Art Glass Collectors of America held 12 feet tall and will be placed next to the National Endowment (Hartford, ofCT) the has The chapel windows were designed Humanities Hartford 1540sValentin French Bousch chapel. and came to the Foundation for Public Giving to fund their conferences. The archives, molds museum from a village church in north- the comprehensive (NEH) reinstallationand the of its and tools of the company have been - by - preserved. vealed details of ship rigging, sea foam million renovation, and to continue Fenton began as aFrank decorating L. and com eastern France. The restoration has re relatedcollections programming following a aimed five-year, at commu $33 - Johnpany inW. Martins Fenton Ferry, OH, in May 1905, founded by brothers and even characters’ toenails. Tinted - . The company built its resin was used to replace old repairs. nity engagement. factory in Williamstown in 1906. The Another window by Bousch is be offered The this NEH year gave in the its Museums,Wadsworth first Duringglass pieces its 106-y wereear made history, there Fenton on ingFurniture considered Archive for restoration. of the Yale Uni- $400,000—the second-highest award January 2, 1907. versity • Teams Art Gallery from the Rhode Island interdisciplinaryLibraries and Cultural gallery Organizations with interac - introduced the first iridescent ware, (New Haven, CT) - tiveImplementation technology to category—to introduce visitors create toan andnow a known variety as of “Carnival handmade glass,” colored as well art have been inspecting American period the Cabinet of Art and Curiosities as classic patterns such as Hobnail furniture in several states to find iden tification markings so pieces can be . glass as limited editions. It was known ofentered Daniel into Spencer regional (1741–1801) databases. Items and J. PierpontThe exhibition Morgan features 17th- iridescent,for pressed opalescent, and blown dotted,glass products striped Ichabodhave been Cole attributed to the workshops naturalcentury historyobjects, specimens many assembled and other by featuring ruffled and knobby forms in , combined with Georgia Museum of Art at maker is called(1748–1841). Joiner D for the mo- andthe University mosaic glass. of Georgia (Athens) has One as-yet-unidentified furniture therarities, restored and willMorgan be a highlightMemorial of the - • The - Winter- reinstallation of European artworks in thurment. Museum, Garden & Library White House Visitors build received two national awards forExuber publi- • Researchers from the - ingCenter when (Washington, it opens in September DC) has reopened 2015. ancecations. of Meaning: The Art Patronage niture to develop a Boston Furniture (DE) • The of CatherineThe exhibition the Great catalog (1762–1792) for Archiveare studying pieces of 1630–1930 fur displays of decorative arts items given after a $2.6 million renovation, with- thatPottery will be Museum accessible (Redwing, to the dents over the years, including ceram- Forewordearned an Reviews honorable mention in the publicMN) has by more next summer.than quadrupled its ics,to or clocks, collected housewares, by White textilesHouse resi and category of Art (Adult Nonfiction) at • The - Cercle et Carré’ 2013and the IndieFab Interna Book- Red and other items of daily and ceremo- Awards.tional Spirit of Abstract Art earned an Wingspace Collectorswith a 13-000-square-foot Society, an offshoot facil utilitarian objects such as typewriters ity. The museum is owned by the nial use. 4/Fall 2014 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Acquisitions

Cincinnati Art Museum won the Grand Prix at the 1900 Paris lantern featuring an engraved picto- Rook- Exposition Universelle rial scene with includes two steam- wood• The Pottery John Ham- ships and a passenger train moving ilton(OH) hasDelaney acquired Wareham a work of . He managed- designed by panyRookwood’s received exhibitions the grand atprize, the 1901and . atfair the in InternationalSt. Petersburg, Exposition where the comof designedthrough a as forest. a commemorative The lantern, made item or Modern Decorative Art (Turin, Italy; gift,around rather 1860–1870, than for practical was probably use as a 1902), where Rookwood received the -

Wareham’s vase is considered signal lantern. An engraved inscrip highest award, a Diploma of Honor. tion reads, “Central R. Road Line NY and San Francisco,” which probably particularly revolutionary and rare. Its westernrefers to portionthe Central of the Pacific Transcontinen Railroad, - style is rooted in the Art Nouveau but the California company that built the lifetimealso recalls for hisSymbolist personal painters’ collection, works. as It was retained by Wareham during his componenttal Railroad. of Manufacture many American of lanterns glass- Corning Museum of Glass for the railroad industry was a major indicated by the paper label on its base. • The - makingThis firms style throughout is now referred the 19th to as and a (NY) has acquired a numberFernand of items. Léger early 20th centuries. √ the 1939 “Vase with Cubist Com position,” designed by Thisfixed-globe is the earliest lantern type and featuresof railroad a glass lan- (French, 1881–1955). Earlier this year, globe cemented to the metal armature. an auction house in Ohio contacted itthe from museum a show for at information Steuben in about1940, theand tern, used primarily from the 1830s to vase. The owner’s parents had bought the 1870s. Later lantern styles favored removable globes that could be more had kept the original packaging. easily swapped out when broken. - √ a reverse-painted portrait on mirror glass depicting a Mughal noble Vase, faience body, Modeled Mat glaze line, on glass of the scale and quality of man. Very few 18th-century paintings 19.5 inches high (49.5 cm), 1900. Rookwood Pottery Company (est. 1880), John Hamilton technique of reverse-painting on glass Delaney Wareham (1871–1954), decorator.. originatedthis one have in China,survived. this Although mirror, created the The style, quality, size and mark- ings of the vase suggest that it was cre- centers of Mughal painting in the later between 1760 and 1780, relates to - Exposition Universelleated for international in (1900), exhibition. Pan-American It may 1750s18th century. of using A gold silvered or silver upper grounds half re Expositionhave been shown at the Ex- flects the Murshidabad practice of the position International de Céramiques Vase with Cubist Composition, glass, 1930, Details suggest that the painter et de Verrerie(Buffalo, NY; 1901) or Steuben. for the sky. - carved and sculpted in St. Petersburg,works produced Russia lier created in Murano, Italy, in 2011, copied a Murshidabad portrait of a - (1901). Of the limited number of hand- Fred√ “T oWilson Die Upon a Kiss,” a chande alnobleman is depicted seated in conversation on a terrace withfrom his raised in New York City who is of Afri- nephewsaround 1750–1760. in a portrait A insimilar the collection individu in the firm’s Modeled Mat glaze line, by , an artist born and of the Victoria and Albert Museum the majority incorporated stylized Native American descent (see cover floral forms, whiplash curves and nude can-America, Caribbean, European and- of the nephews in this painting helped women Rookwood’s in the latest connections style: the withFrench tive chandeliers found in palaces and (London, England); similarities to one Artthe Nouveau.French Art Nouveau movement for image). It is inspired by the decora included a relationship with Siegfried to possibly identify the nobleman. Bing, a promoter and purveyor of Art homes lining Venice’s Grand Canal. The architecture√ a goblet of inMonticello the “Monticello, (Charlot 5700”- title is from the dying words spoken by pattern,tesville, VA),inspired Thomas by the Jefferson neoclassical Othello in Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy It is part of the Modern American line Nouveau works in Paris. Bing became of Othello, the Moor of Venice.” ’s home. the pottery’s agent in Europe after it √ a Transcontinental Railroad Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Fall 2014/5 Libbey Glass Com- pany Paul produced by the scalefurniture. furnishings From about from 1875two companies until 1920, NicolasBelgian ,owner a young is architectas yet unknown. from Vosges, in 1940, which became the last wealthy Indian familiesJoseph bought Webb large- of √ six watercolors executedÉmile by exampleshandmade from glass the produced same period, by Libbey. relat - Gallé ing to√ thea goblet Treaty and of seMünsterveral undated of 1648, in the U.K., Osler and designsFrance, whofor enameled joined the or firm cameo of glass, part of the Peace of Westphalia that aCoalbourne Calcutta showroom Hill, Stourbridge. to serve Forthese much ’s in 1893. These were possibly recognized the de facto division of the of the 19th century, Osler maintained Geissler all of the drawings done just before the to the Seven Provinces of the Dutch clients. 1900 Paris exhibition, where Nicolas Netherlands by granting independence √ a series of tubes, made earned a bronze medal for his work for glassin Germany cylinder, or oftenFrance spiraled between or 1890shaped Gallé.man and writing extensively on the Republic in the north. Among the toand demonstrate 1910. A Geissler a property tube is of a physsealed- Gallé studied botany as a young theCatholic political population, order that this existed object under may be ics, taking its name from Heinrich interpreted as exhibiting a desire for Geissler (1814–1879), a physicist and whointersection sketched between out his ideasart and in nature.detailed - drawingsHe filled his and workshop watercolors, with which artists Gallé the Hapsburg dynasty. The goblet, created in Austria skilled glassblower who made preci Nicolas was one of these draughts- between 1550 and 1599, is engraved sion instruments in Bonn, Germany, - mencreated and, in like glass, Gallé, wood was and interested metal. in ofwith the the German arms ofNation the Hapsburg and two otherPhilip in the 1850s. Scientists used Geissler- IV of Spain, the Holy Roman Empire tubes to explore and illustrate the con Fenimore Art Museum thoughtnections to between carry electrical electricity, and magne mag- botanical(Cooperstown, forms. NY) has acquired a theunidentified Seventeen coats United of arms. Dutch The Provinces, upper tism, materials and ether, a fluid then • The part of the bowl depicts the arms of - Giovanni Indelicato (also neticdiscovery fields. of the electron, as well as the knowndecorated as Joeshoeshine Milone box), an or Italian stand immi - symbolizing either friendship or politi Variations of these tubes led to the created by cal attachment. x-ray machines, and the cathode ray and √1900, a side characteristic chair by F. & of C. 17th–19th Osler of design of fluorescent and neon lighting, grant bootblack with a booth on lower Birmingham, created between 1860 Broadway, that had been lost over the tube, which is at the heart of radar, TV years. century Indian design. tubes,The the museum oscilloscope’s Rakow and Librarymany other has display devices.

also made several acquisitions: original √ a portfwatercolorolio entitled designs “Luminaire: for lamps Bronze, Bois, Fer,” containing 48 - and light fixtures in Art Nouveau style, compiled around 1912 but never pub torcheres,lished. Featured incorporating lighting stylesmaterials, include suchtable, as pendant painted and wood, street silk, lamps; enameled and -

crystal, bronze, iron, marble and vari - Shoeshine box/stand, upholstered cushions ous trimmings. and platforms covered in knick-knacks and The final design plate is a draw ornaments from pushcarts and five-and-dime ing of a table aquarium with goldfish stores. and a small gray seahorse. The green Sculptor Louise Nevelson Side chair, 37 individual glass and metal cover displays the title embossed in it to the Museum of Modern Art elements assembled over brass and wood Cazesred and Dessins, black ink; 8 Avenue the inside de Petit-Parc, cover brought armature, characteristic of 17th–19th century has a mounted trade card reading “E. Indian design, created between 1860 and founding director Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (MoMA; New York, NY) in 1942. MoMA 1900, 110 cm H x about 52 cm W x about 51 Vincennes.” Each design plate includes cm D. the blind stamp of the studio, and all set up the piece in the museum lobby Although the tradition of glass Cherylann Indelicato, grand- but three of the 48 have handwritten daughterfor a time. of Giovanni, kept the work descriptions in the upper right corner. century, the opening of the 1851 Great in storage an recently consigned it to The portfolio was purchased by Exhibitionfurniture began of the in Works the early of Industry19th Pat a Belgian dealer at a small French of All Nations in London prompted the O’Shea book fair. An antiquarian bookseller in an auction house. Antiques dealer Cambridge, MA, contacted the Rakow bought it and then sold it to the Library about it. Provenance before the Fenimore. 6development/Fall 2014 of larger, more elaborate Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. tion with Venini Glassworks (Venice, a large amount of minuscule crystals to the melting glass; the crystals change David Landau, formerly a trustee the index of refraction, giving the glass ofItaly) the betweenNational 1932 Gallery and (London, 1947, from Dr. Marie-Rose spirale glass Kahane Stanze del its milky appearance. VetroEngland),, a Venice and his museum wife focused on decorated√ two withexamples one or of morea colored, . They founded the from 1936, featuring clear glass The pieces represent 15 years of The decorations, which were applied workcontemporary and were glassmaking. featured in a recent opaque, glass ribbon-shaped patterns. Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa: The Venini Company, 1932– hot and cinesisubsequently vase, one marbled, of a series could of 1947exhibition on incamiciatibe in circles (sleeved) or coils. glass vases and Detail of shoeshine box. Scarpa (1906–1978) was an archi- √ a Metropolitan Museum of tect and. professor of architectural draw- Art (New York, NY) has acquired a bowls thatmurrine have formstrasparenti drawn vase from East • The Paolo Venini, founder of Venini Glass- (1940)Asian porcelain. from a series of clear glass mur- second century AD that is considered to works,ing in Venice. as an artistic In 1932, consultant he was hired to the by rine√ a carved Roman urn of the first to early- the 22nd Venice Biennale rare itemsvariation exhibited of the foropaque the first murrine time at be one of the finest porphyry vessels to Porphyry is a rare, hard, purple-red Veninicompany. himself Until to 1947, create he more worked than closely two and ground murrine in 1940—a- have survived from classical antiquity. stone, prized in antiquity for its distinc- dozenwith Venini styles, master in the glassblowersprocess pioneering and - rigato and glassware tessuto vessels, exhib ered the imperial color, porphyry was Scarpa’sited on the original same occasion.interpretation of rod tive color. Because purple was consid techniques, silhouettes and colors. - √ two rule, quarrying porphyry in the remote Pieces from the major techniques regarded as a royal stone. Under Roman - established under his guidance at Ve - 21stor filigree Venice glass, Biennale consisting of multi- tratingnini include: the a bollicine technique, named colored glass rods. Exhibited at the eastern desert of Egypt was an impe √ six works from 1932–1933 illus in 1938, it was torial transport monopoly. the The stone stone’s long hardnessdistances the first rod-glass series and included made it difficult to quarry, and the need potassiumfor the presence nitrate of which, air bubbles when insideheated, plates and small bowls with thin, cold- the glass that are produced by injecting rodsjoined account rods of for alternated the striped colors appear such- as added to its value. ance,dark greenwhich and gives black. the techniqueThe alternating its The vessel, about 10 inches (25.5 frees minuscule bubbles of carbon tessuto glass cm) high and 9 inches (24.8 cm) wide, dioxide. The distinguishingsommersi aspect glass of probably was used as a cinerary urn (to The urn has retained its origi- bubble glass is its watery appearance. name. Unlikevariegati rigato glass, hold ashes after cremation). √ five examples of wasThe variegatedblown, not glassiridized. includes clear situla (wine (1934–1936),sommersi formed glasswareby alternating con- glass√ items a coiled bowl with fromthin, 1942.irregular nal polish, as well as traces of burial layers of clear colored glass and bubble deposits. Shaped like a and a large mask of Silenus on either glass. Some corrosi glass from bucket), it has two ear-shaped handles side instead the two swing handles tains gold leaf. glassstripes, items usually with in smooth autumnal shapes colors. at the √ 11 pieces of - ScarpaVenice exhibited Biennale a series of variegated oric1936 and and sulfuric 1938, made acid, whichby covering causes each an battuti that are usually attached above the The vessel may have originated in piece with sawdust soaked in hydroflu Scarpa23rd conceived the battuti, in 1942. anrim. Alexandrian workshop or in Rome, √ two (beaten) vases. uneven, corroded texture.mezza Thefiligrana surface glass is finish by then treated to create an iridescent -glow. the early 1940sPeabody to obtain Essex a Museum hammered- where it would have been made by √ 12 pieces of silver(Salem, effect. MA) has acquired a Dutch col- immigrant craftsmen. Described as (1934–1936) that revisit the tradi lection• The of Indian chintzes that exem- “A Porphyry Mortar, Italian, probably glasstional is half-filigree made of a series technique of clear already glass plify changes in exporting, collecting first half of 19th century,” the vessel rodsin use with in the a piece 16th ofcentury. lattimo Half-filigree (milky) or was sold at auction in Paris in October Arturo López-Willshaw (1900–1962) colored glass, at the center, and is ex- 2012. It was in the collection of Chilean and tailoring fabrics. The 170 textiles then that of his widow, Patricia López- include bedspreads, caps, jackets and - Huiciin Neuilly, de López-Willshaw France, before 1961, (1912– and tremely thin and translucent. Because robes that go back to the early 1700s. the glass is blown into the thinnest- Designs feature combinations of Euro The Met also received 44 works in possible structures, theselattimo objects glass from pean folk patterns and botanical motifs 2010). Carlo Scarpa, weigh only a few ounces each. used in Mughal landscapes. Chintz was - √ an example of addedThe to it someems comeitems from to fit collectorwidening glass by Italian architect 1934–1936 that illustrates the opaque waistlines. created during his 15-year collabora white glass that is obtained by adding Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Fall 2014/7 and historian Alida Eecen-van Setten, - is an allegory of slavery in which the by Anna Laetitia Akin Barbauld that who bought some from antiques deal A simple, irregular geometric ers and found others in the trash. She mouse begs its captor for freedom. recorded her finds in a “chintz book”Lieke Veldman-Plantenthat has been maintained, with the vine border in kelly green encloses collection, by her granddaughter, the verse, which is in small, dark-blue- . letters. For her name, Mary chose a Amsterdam Part of the at thecollection Rijksmuseum will be pale-pink thread. Unlike some sam (Amsterdam,featured in an the exhibition Netherlands) on Asia that in plers coveted by collectors, there are 18th-century needlework sampler, silk no images of flowers, trees or houses. stitches on rough linen fabric, about 8 x 8 3/4 althoughThis one mayone wordhave beenfrom intendedthe poem to was will travel to the Peabody Essex. Items inches, by Mary D’Silver, 1793. changed,be sold to making raise money it more for of the a personal school, will be rotatedStrong to protectNational them Museum from of The museum purchased the sam- prolongedPlay (Rochester, exposure NY) to has light. received the pler from Amy Finkel of M. Finkel Julie• ConnerThe Miniature Room Collec- & Daughter, a Philadelphia antiques herplea parents by Mary were or her married teacher. in Christ tion dealer that received it on consignment Mary was born in Philadelphia and surname DeSilver or Desylvas, suggest- , 28 miniatureWinterthur rooms Museum created by Church. They sometimes spelled their hasConner purchased over 20 a years. rare 18th-century fromMary a family D’Silver in England., who attended the • The (DE) The sampler was stitched in 1793 ing a Portuguese connection. eight-year-old Philadelphia girl who by Only a handful of such samplers is needlework sampler stitched by an Bray Associates Negro School, founded known to exist. Winterthur owns two schoolgirls who produced such sam- by an English abolitionist and one three others made by black students,Rebecca butOlivia was the daughter of free blacks. Most Philadelphia schools open to blacks in Parkerthose date from the mid-19th century. the 18th century. It is believed to be one StreetThey were School, stitched and Rachael by Anne Lee, plers were white and affluent, so one of the oldest in existence by a nonwhite , who attended the Lombard by an educated black girl is considered student. It features a stanza from “The a major find. Mouse’s Petition,” an abolitionist poem who went to school in Baltimore.

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8/Fall 2014 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. People Denise Allen, curator of Renais- sance paintings and sculpture at the art from the Middle Ages to 1900; Frick• Collection (New York, NY) since overseen the collection of European - in EnglishIria Candelaarchitecture, formerly and decorative curator of an art; and organized, with colleagues, internationalarts. art at the Tate Modern strengthened the collectionThe Splendor of Europe • decorative2003, has been arts atnamed the Metropolitan curator in the of Rome: The 18th Century (2000); curator of Latin American art at the Museumdepartment of Artof European sculpture and Bernardoexhibitions Bellotto including and the Capitals Metropolitan(London, England), Museum is now of theArt first(New replaces James David Draper, who of Europe (2001); Best in Show: The (New York, NY). She Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Ellen Charles, granddaughter of Today (2006); and Antiquity Revived: MarjorieYork, NY). Merriweather Post, is step- retiredDon after Bacigalupi being at the has Met moved for 45 from Neoclassical Art in the 18th Century • Hill- presidentyears. of the Crystal Bridges Mu- wood (Washington, DC), the museum seum • of American Ar Bradley C. Brooks ping down as chair of the board of AR) to founding president of the Lucas named(2011). curator of the Bayou Bend Cooke has served as deputy direc- Museum in Narrativet Art (Bensonville, (Chicago, IL, Collection • and Gardens has been thattor and was chief Post’s curator home. at the Museo of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Alice Walton Michael (Houston, K. TX) (Madrid, Spain) and as curator at the being planned by film director George Brown Dia Art Foundation Lucas. Bacigalupi helped (MFAH; TX), succeeding - She also has worked with Yale Univer- foundJonathan Crystal Bridges, Binstock which is the opened new in , who died in 2013. Bayou Bend sity, the Malmo Art Academy (New York, (Swe NY).- 2011.director of the Memorial Art Gallery is the MFAH house museum for Ameri - • can decorative arts and paintings. as assistant curator at the Pennsylva- den) andAimée La Trobe E. Froom University is the new (Mel nia(Rochester, Academy NY). of Hethe previously Fine Arts served(Phila- curatorbourne, ofAustralia). Islamic art at the Museum delphia); curator of contemporary of Fine• Arts, Houston art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) from 2000–2007; (TX). She has and senior vice president and senior onbeen Islamic an independent art, with a particularscholar based focus in adviser on modern and contemporary onParis, decorative France; publishedarts of the andIslamic lectured world; art for Citibank Aga Khan Museum in art history and (New psychology York, NY). from Britishand been Museum a consultant to the Washington He has an University undergraduate and a master’s degree and Réunion (Toronto, des Musées Ont., Canada), Nationaux degree in art history from the Universi- (London, England) Froom is the author of Persian Michigan and the University of Penn- (Paris,Ceramics France). from the Collections of the ty of Michigan. He taught art history at Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Edgar Peters Bowron, the Au- and operations at the Oldfields-Lilly (2008); wrote catalog entries for Spirit sylvania. HouseBrooks and wasGardens director of the of programsIndianapo - and Life—Masterpieces of Islamic Art Art, •retires at the end of this year from lis Museum at of Art (IMA; IN) as of from the Aga Khan Museum Collection thedrey Museum Jones Beck of FineCurator Art, of Houston European historic resources in 2009 and also was assistant2000. He curatorwas appointed of American as director decora of- (2007); and is working on a book about (TX). the Ottoman Sultan Murad III for Koç UniversityAssociate Curator Press. of Islamic Art at the McFaddin-Wardtive arts since late House 2006. Brooklyn Froom Museum was the Hagop (NY) from Kevorkian 2001– Before that, he was director of the the Moody Mansion (Galveston, (Beaumont, TX) in the Islamic art department of the TX) and first curator, then director, of Metropolitan2005. Before that, Museum she was of aArt fellow Margrize Howell, executive from 1987–1995. director of the Classical American. MA inBr earlyooks hasAmerican a BA in culture communication from the Homes • Preservation Trust for the Winterthurarts from Elizabethtown Program of Collegethe University and president of the organization with Pe- In 18 years at the museum, he has Attingham Summer School program pastter Kenny four years,, formerly has been of the named Metropoli co- - of Delaware. In 1989, he attended the

Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Fall 2014/9 tan Museum of Art - Master Cabinetmaker in New York, She was senior curator at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a(New Wall StreetYork, NY). invest - fine arts from the University of Nebras - ka-Lincoln and his master of fine arts among many others. lection of early 19th-century art at its from Alfred University in 2000. ment banking firm with a large col Johnson is a self-described “craft Decorative activist” whose research explores NewArts TrustYork City and office. the advisory She serves councils on the of craft’s influence and relevance in the- boardthe Historic of directors House of Trust the of New York 21stquerading century. as Craft,His weblog, Craft Masquerading “Extreme City and Charleston Heritage Sympo- Craft,” is a “Compendium of Art Mas sium 1000 Ideas for Creativeas Art, and Reuse: Craft Remake, Extending Restyle, its Middle Re- of the. Association of Professional cycle,Finger.” Renew His first book, Quarry Art AdvisorsHowell has and served American as president Friends Hand- of Attingham Summer School made Nation,, wasCraftivity published, Craft by Corps graduated with distinction with a andin 2009. the Smithsonian He is also the Americanauthor of Art degree in art from the University. She of Museum’s upcoming Nation Building Virginia and from Sotheby’s Works of Art Program Horizon: Transferware and Contempo-. furniture, worked with Met chairman Beatrice Gallilee, previously raryHis writing Ceramics and from work Arnoldsche, are featured a new in emeritusKenny, Morrison an authority Heckscher on American on in London. Lisbon Ar- Paul Scott chitecure• Triennale, is now architec- Johnson is currently a director- a lecturer and author of several award- turechief and curator design of thecurator 2013 at the Metro- book by . National renovation of the American Wing. He is politan Mueum of Art Council on Education for the Ce- - ramicat-large Arts on the board of the Chipstonewinning books Foundation on American (Milwaukee, furniture. tor Garth Johnson has .left the Clay He is on the board of directors of the Studio• Artist, writer, curator and educa (NCECA). He is leadingNCECA a at Arizona State University’s Art Journaltask force for for its a50th publication anniversary that willin StateWI). University and an MA from the Museum to andbecome Ceramic curator Research of ceramics anthologize contributions to the State K Universityenny has a ofBA New from York, Montclair Coopers- Center Peter Kenny has retired from town Graduate Program in History the2016. Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum Studies . (New • York, NY) to take a position as Arnold L. Lehman will retire in co-president (with Margize How- June 2015 after 17. years as director of ell) of the Classic American Homes the Brooklyn• Museum Preservation Trust, which focuses on Alexandra Parsons Wolfe is the preservation of classical residential new director of the Society (NY). for the architecture, period furnishings and Preservation • of Long Island Antiqui- landscapes in American, mainly of the ties - ing Robert B. MacKay, who retired founder Dick Jenrette (Cold Spring Harbor, NY), replac 19th century. He will work with trust remains with the organization until . in 2013 after 40 years of service and 1985 K ennyas installation has been coordinatorat the Met for for its Henryalmost R.30 Luce years, Center joining for the the staff study in of February Parsons 2014 Wolfe in a was curatorial the society’s capacity American Art topreservation facilitate the director transition. since 2007 and curator of American decorative arts, has a master of science degree in his- lead curator of. theHe becameClassical an galleries assistant Among Johnson’s recent curatorial and administrator of the American University Graduate School of Architec- The Clay Studio: Forty Wing in 1989, and was named Ruth toric preservation from the Columbia- Years projects are chronicling the history of the studio; Decorative Arts and Administrator in ture, Planning and Historic Preserva (2014), a special exhibition Matthew Metz, Linda Sikora and Bigelow Wriston Curator of American tion. Sanam Emami (2014); and Pottery by McKay remains active in the field Design as2000. American Kasten: The Dutch-Style and has Jessica embarked Morgan on ,independent a curator at the DesignPhiladelphia 2014 Cupboards Kenny led of Newseminal York exhibitions and New such projects.Tate Modern , part of a trio of exhibitions for Jersey, 1650–1800; Honoré Lannuier, • - Johnson served as an associate. profes- Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life tor of the Dia Art(London, Foundation England) (New since Before joining the Clay Studio, - and Work of a French Ébéniste in 2002, has been named the new direc Federal New York; and Duncan Phyfe, curator at the Institute of Contempo- sor at the College of the Redwoods (Eu York, NY). She has served as a chief reka, CA). He received his bachelor of 10/Fall 2014 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. rary Art ington College (Chestertown, MD), petition and programs for a proposed the Museum of Contemporary Art - (Boston, MA) and curator at ously, he held positions at the College - Patti Philippon has moved from where he served as president. Previ torGuggenheim Jennifer Zwillingmuseum there. Clay the(Chicago, Mark IL).Twain House & Museum Susan P. Schoelwer Studio • Craft curator, scholar and educa (Philadelphia, • PA) to the American of William & Mary. - She has held various positions joins the at the Clock & Watch Museum rator • at George Washington’s has been Mount Philadelphia as curator Museum of artistic of Art programs. (PA), Vernonappointed Robert H. Smith Senior Cu - Philippon was with the (Bristol, Mark CT) there since 2010, overseeing refurnish- tor for American decorative arts and as executive director. (VA). She has served as curator most recently project assistant cura manager, interim executive directer Rediscovering Twain House since 2001 as collections ing and reinterpretation of the “New Emilcontemporary Milan and craft. his CircleHer independently of Influence, DonaldRoom,” reinstallation W. Reynolds ofMuseum the greenhouse and curated projects includePhiladelphia’s researchingand, since 2007, and installingBeatrice Fox furnishing Auerbach Educationslave quarters, Center and exhibitions in the Center for Art in Wood, as well as Chief Curator. She was responsible for forthcoming collection of essays, The Nurture:a current Lifeexhibition and Art at Connected at Laura Raicovich General in the Garden:. She George is editing Washing a - the Tyler School of Art (2011) and namedand decorative president changes and executive at the museum. direc- ton’s Landscape at Mount Vernon The Members Show for PPAC, Second tor of• the Queens Museum has been (NY), re- State Press and InLiquid at Crane placing Tom Finkelstein, who is now , based Arts on a Therecent cur exhibitionatorship honors of the Smith,same - name.who grew a family-owned construc- (2013). tivescultural at Creative affairs commissioner. Time, which Sincecommis - 2012, she was director of global initia and focsed on philanthropy in his later She also was deputy director of the Dia tion businessDAS into has a anreal award estate in empire his Artsions Foundation and presents and public has worked art projects. at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, years.Schoel The wer previously was head of Public Art Fund and New York City name.the collections department at the Con- necticut Historical Society Emily Kernan Rafferty, presi- dentparks of department. the Metropolitan Museum of from Yale University, master (Hartford,of arts Art since• 2005, will retire in the spring fromCT). She the hasWinterthur a PhD in AmericanProgram studiesin Early American Culture Rafferty came to the museum in history from the University of Notre of1976 2015. as an administrator in the devel- and BA in opment department, and rose through Michael E. Shapiro will step Dame. igh Museum of Art• Zwilling is a long-time instructor the ranks to become vice president for thatdown role as directorfor the past of the 14 Hyears and pre- at Temple University’s Tyler School of presidentdevelopment in the and museum’s membership history), (the viously (Atlanta, was the GA).museum’s He has chief served curator in Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of andfirst laterwoman as seniorto be appointed vice president a vice for the Fine Arts Martino Stierli degree from Ursinus College and a mas- , and holds a bachelor’s newand deputychief curator director. of architecture and ofexternal directors affairs. of the National Septem- design • at the Museum will of Modern be the Art ter’s degree from Temple University. ber R11afferty Memorial is a member & Museum of the board (MoMA; New York, NY), effective March Rafferty received the honorary de- Barry Bergdoll, Obituaries Riva Castleman, an art historian gree of doctor of humane letters. from who is now teaching art history at and curator who specialized in prints Pace University in 2014; honorary 2015, He succeeds at the• Museum of Modern Art (New - historyColumbia of Universitymodern architecture and is a part-time at the doctor of laws from Fairfield University curator at MoMA. Stierli teaches the mane Letters from the College of New Institute of Art History, University of York, NY), has died at 84. She spent in 2010; and honorary Doctor of Hu named deputy director of curatorial more than 30 years at MoMA, was honoree of the Art Table, a group of - Rochelle in 2008. In 2007, she was the Zurich (Switzerland). He will oversee Castleman studied art and art affairshistory in at 1986 the University and retired of inIowa 1995. and Mitchell B. Reiss specialTroy exhibitions, Conrad collectionTherrien isinstalla the attended the Institute of Fine Arts at leading women in cultural affairs. tionsnew curator and acquisitions for architecture at MoMa. and digital Colonial • Williamsburg has Foundation been initiatives• at the Guggenheim Muse- appointed presidentColin and G. CEO Campbell of the , um New YorkRobert University. H. Ellsworth She wrote, a self- several duties will include involvement with books and exhibition catalogs. (VA). He succeeds (New York, NY), a new position. His taught scholar and collector of and - - • who held the position for 14 years. Reiss joins the foundation from Wash the Guggenheim Helskinki Design Com Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Fall 2014/11 dealer in Ming dynasty furniture, ar- Ring served as president of the then was an associate editor at Harry Harris County Heritage Society (now N.American Abrams Academy Inc. (Rome, Italy). He the Heritage Society of the Houston chaic jade, Chinese porcelain and other- Public Library) and was a docent at tors,types including of Asian art,John died D. Rockefellerin August at , 85. , which published his the Bayou Bend Collection and Gar- andHe worked often purchased with museums entire and collections collec anfirst associate two books. curator at the Museum of dens of artwork, selling many items for vari- Modern Hunt Arter’s first museum job was as Sergio Rodrigues, often called Chinese Furni- and acting director of the Minneapolis (Houston, TX). ture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming Institute of Art. He (MN)became in1958; chief curatordirector • andous museums.Ch’ing Dynasties His book,, led to a long-term of the Jewish Musuem (New York, NY) the father of Brazilian furniture design, relationship with the Metropolitan in 1965; and a professor of art and ar- modernhas died furnitureat 86. His design tables, in chairs his native and Museum of Art cheology at Princeton (NJ) and faculty other accessories “set the standard for Chi- curator of the Princeton University international market for his country- nese Heritage Art (New Foundation York, NY). in the Art Museum Brazil” and he “forged aNew path York to the Times Ellsworth established the art history and was the founding direc- tor of the then-new in 1969. Poses He then Institute taught of men,” according to the . and1990s, Qing an dynasty organization structures based in in a Hong city Fine Arts Rodrigues’s career began in the Kong and dedicated to restoring Ming 1950s. He became known for using Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, and indigenous woods such as jacaranda, in central China. He is credited with then becameBetty Abrigo founding Ring director, an expert of the in andperoba the andVoltaire, imbuia, which and had for thea solid Taja establishing categories of collecting - American textiles and, also needlework at Brandeis. and woodline, wooden frame, cup-shapedoutdoor chairs upholstered and tables, based on concentrations of similar • piecesAnne that had Hollander, not been an in indepen place be- an interest in history, antiques and the dentfore him. scholar and historian who helped an author, died in June. She developed aseat, low-slung and head-level chair in aenclosing wood frame panels. • scholar and collector of 18th- and His best-known work was the Mole, 19th-decorative century arts, American and became schoolgirl a noted straps, created in the late 1950s and elevate the study of art and dress by winnerwith draped of a 1961 upholstery international supported compe by - clothingrevealing revealed the relationships more than between it con- Girl- the two, has died at 83. She argued that hoodneedlework. Embroidery Best-known among the Rodrigues had a degree in architec- thebooks Antiques that she Dealers wrote or Association edited is turetition and in Italy. founded Oca, a company that cealed. Award (1993). She received and Hollanderreviews, organized started writing a prominent in the 1970s and published scores of essays of Merit in 2005. focused on craft and design in Brazil. Seeing Through Clothesmuseum (1978), exhibition, Moving and Pictures wrote several (1989) andbooks, Feeding including the Eye with - We need you! (2000).National Gal- leryIn 2002, Hollander helpedFabric or ofga Vi- nizesion: an Dress exhibition and Drapery at the in Painting, (London, England), The Decorative Arts Society Sam Hunter, art historian, cura- tor,for whichcritic, artshe advisor also wrote and the museum catalog. • depends on our readers to help us

founder, has died at 91. He produced stay up to date on events, art,more as than well 50as booksmany magazineabout artists articles and textbooks on 20th-century American acquisitions, people, news and and catalog essays for exhibitions at museums and galleries. exhibitions in the field. Send your Hunter graduated magna cum laude from Williams College with a fine items, ideally with images, to: aarts three-year degree and grant was for the postgraduate first recipient of the Hubbard HutchinsonNew Fellowship, York Times as an art critic and assistant arts newsletter@ studies. He worked for the - ship to study Italian Renaissance art DecArtsSociety.org ateditor the Universityand used the of FlorenceHutchinson and fellow the

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California luminate the technical aspects of his Cartier’s Chris Gustin: Masterworks in Clay rise to preeminence and the historical American Museum of Ceramic Art - events This that exhibition pushed thehighlights evolution of the Pomona, CA istconstructed necklace ofgowns. tin insects Other and highlights a 1949 maison - www.amoca.org include Schiaparelli’s 1938 surreal Through February 8, 2015 The works from the costume col- (jewelry house) through jew This 40-year retrospective illus- lectiontiger-striped of the silkBrooklyn ball gown Museum by Adrian. (NY) elry, Themestimepieces range and from precious Art Deco objects to old trates the progression of Chris Gus- created between 1900 and 1975. tin own costume collection and its empha- Gustin’s family ran several pottery are a counterbalance to the museum’s Hollywood glamor and span periods - factories’s forms in andthe greaterideas. Los Angeles tionand stylespresents to display items Cartier the influence crafted and es- area in the mid-20th century, repre- Antiquesis on mid-century Ohio Amish French Quilts couture. from the peciallyinnovation for ofmen, the includingbrand. A specialthe modern sec senting and manufactured work from Darwin Bearley Collection San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles - Kansas City San Jose, CA wristwatch. variousArt Institute designers. www.sjquiltmuseum.org A fully illustrated publication ac He attended the New Through March 1, 2015 companiesFirst Glance/Second the show. Look: Quilts York State College, earning of Ceramicshis bachelor at from the Denver Art Museum of fine arts, and went onto the Collection Parson’s School of The more than 40 bed, crib and- Denver Art Museum DesignAlfred University in New York, for hisand MFA later degree. at the doll quilts in this exhibition were made Denver, CO ProgramHe taught inat Artisanrythe - recipient,between 1880 or dealer and 1940.or collector Each is who ac www.denverartmuseum.org versity and the University of Massachu- companied by the story of its maker, Through March 22, 2015 at BostonWater Uni - shed Center for the Ceramic Arts, an obtained it from the Amish. setts. He is also a founder of the Colorado Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century Denver Art Museum Highartist Style:residency The programBrooklyn in Museum Maine. Denver, CO Costume Collection www.denverartmuseum.org Legion of Honor Through March 2015 San Francisco, CA https://legionofhonor.famsf.org March 14–July 19, 2015 “Houses and Pine Trees” quilt, cotton, un- High Style traces the evolution of known artist, American, 1890s. Denver Art fashion from 1910 to 1980 and fea- Museum’s Neusteter Textile Collection. - More than 20 quilts are arranged pean fashion designers of the 20th cen- in nine thematic groupings with dif- tures pieces by American and Euro ferent themes and variations, com- mon roots for motifs and patterns, andtury relatedthrough fashion 65 ensembles sketches, alongside includ- and creative differences in materials 35 accessories,Christian such as hats Dior, and Jeanne shoes, Lanvin, Madeleine Vionnet and Elsa Schiaparelliing designs by and techniques. More than half of the objects are recent acquisitions on view the pioneering of generation the French of houses. American Contemporaryfor the first time, Takes while on others. Traditional womenThe exhibition designers also who pays worked attention from to Patterns Complementing the exhibitionStudio isArt Quilts Associates, whose quilts illus- Bonnie Cashin, Elizabeth Hawes and trate how by traditions 10 artists continue, from evolve Clairethe 1930s McCardell through, andthe 1950s,their male such coun as - terparts, including Norman Norell, Mainbocher and Gilbert Adrian Flamingo brooch, platinum, diamonds, and inspire. emeralds, rubies, sapphires, citrine; 9.65 x catalog contains close-ups and details 9.59 cm. Worn by the Duchess of Windsor. of theA fullquiltsy illustrated on view, and exhibition provides . Charles James Cartier Paris, special order, 1940. Cartier additional information, comparative A section of the exhibition devoted Collection. Photo: Vincent Wulveryck, Cartier to the British-born - Collection, © Cartier. includes—nine ensembles, 12 sketches examples and a brief history of the and five prototype muslins that il Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. museum’s quilt collection. Fall 2014/13 Connecticut District of Columbia www.artic.edu The Jason Tapestries The Singing and the Silence: March 17–June 7, 2015 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Birds in Contemporary Art Art Smithsonian American Art Museum and private collections across North Hartford, CT Washington, DC America, Presenting Ireland: 300 Crossroads objects from of publicArt www.wadsworthatheneum.org www.americanart.si.edu and Design, 1690–1840 explores the Through April 2015 Through February 22, 2015 art and culture of Ireland during the The Jason Tapestries series, do- - nated to the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1946, consists of four tapestries from This exhibition examines man 18th century. from the 18th century that are part of kind’s relationship to birds and theDavid Beck,natural Rachel world Berwick,through 46 Lorna works Bieber, by 12 Barbaracontemporary Bosworth, American Joann artists: Brennan, Argonauts,an original setthe ofcapture seven. of They the narrateGolden Petah Coyne, Walton Ford, Laurel the saga of Jason: his voyage with the Roth Hope, Paula McCartney, James Prosek, Fred Tomaselli and Tom worksFleece are(a symbol up to 14 of feetkingship) high and and 24 Uttech their subsequent return to Greece. The From the 14th to the 18th cen- . This is the only venue for the turies,feet wide. popes, kings and aristocrats Splendorexhibition. and Surprise: Elegant Containers, Antique to Contemporary Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens producecompeted than for thesepaintings pieces. and Much sculpture, Washington, DC more labor-intensive and expensive to www.hillwoodmuseum.org of wealth, and were given as diplomatic February 15–June 7, 2015 tapestries served as portable sources

gifts. Manufactories used silk threads that Thewere st oftenory of combined Jason was with one silverof the and gold.

most popularKing Louis tales XV to commissionedbe illustrated in a Portable Harp, c. 1820. John Egan. The seven-parttapestries of Jason the lateand 18th Medea century. series Infor O’Brien Collection. the1743, Throne Room at Versailles Jean François de Troy (1679–1752) pro- Desmond vided sketches that were later trans. - Fitzgerald The seeds for this exhibition were lated into life-size preparatory draw- first planted by historian - ings and woven into tapestries at the tion on Ireland’s, the Knight decorative of Glin, arts who of the Gobelins Egg-shaped etui, 19th century. Starting with the myth of Pandora, outlined his vision for “a major exhibiIrish workshop. Other versions of Furniture 18th century” in his 2007 book Hermitagethis series were given as gifts by the of vessels through the history of the this exhibition explores the functions . It would “include furniture RoyalFrench Collections crown and todayin Sweden, belong Pala to the- give[and] an bring overview together of the the shared common patri - zzo Reale (Milan, (St. Petersburg, Italy) and Russia),Windsor box, from the enshrinement of sacred threads of the different fields. It would Castl relics to receptacles for tobacco or and show the high level of craftsman- J. Pierpont Mor- as honored presents, containers have makeup. Offered as gifts and received mony with England and the Continent gan donatede (England), the land among and others. money to Hartford native works of art that were appreciated show of this stature would waken up forlong their remained practical important, use as well collectable as their theship world achieved to a instaggering Ireland at array that oftime. art A build the Beaux-arts Morgan Memorial. that was manufactured in Ireland dur- He had a special interest in tapestries feature everything from contemporary and, when the Great Hall opened in cultural meaning and beauty. Items - ing this period.” Morgan1915, he and loaned his contemporaries10 of them. The sawspace objets d‘art to antique vessels in silver Ever since the agricultural depres themselvessoon became as known the offspring as Tapestry of the Hall. old and gold. sion in the British Isles in the 1880s,Ireland: - Illinois Crossroadsart objects from of Art Ireland and Design have come expands to tries in the great halls of their country Ireland: Crossroads of Art and onthe Fitzgerald’s United States vision and toCanada. include paint- housesEuropean to demonstratearistocracy, who their hung power tapes and Design, 1690–1840 Art Institute of Chicago ings, sculpture and architecture, as Chicago, IL influence, as well as to keep out the well as bookbindings, ceramics, glass, cold. 14/Fall 2014 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. furniture, metalwork, musical instru- of the Walters Art Museum Late 19th-century Japanese prints, ments and textiles, organized themati- - the family’s gift to the city, with. Art 200 and An accompanying catalog includes artifacts illustrate the stories behind renderingsAmerican folk and art, concept drawings drawings by fash for cally throughout six galleries. - family photographs and historic mate- ion designers, jewelry, architectural works and never-before-seen Walters Jean S. and Frederic the latestDAS scholarship by Irish histori- A.automobiles Sharf are amongcollected the and items donated in this to companyingans. symposium during a spe- 80thrial from anniversary the museum’s of the archives.opening of the the museum by members may attend an ac The installation celebrates the Items represent the speeding up of President’s letter, page 1, and watch lifeexhibition. that occurred in the middle decades cial March tour ofwww.DecArtsSociety.org the exhibition (see , museum. Massachusetts Hollywood Glamour: Fashion and the DAS website, Jewelry from the Silver Screen modelof the 20th planes, century. and a Theretrain that are “spin-lights up; and your mail forIndiana details). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston dizzies,” concept cars, see-through The Adele and Leonard Leight Series: Boston, MA Raymond Loewy and Viktor Schreck- Art, Design, and Innovation www.mfa.org engostmany items are by designers such as Speed Art Museum Through March 8, 2015 Indianapolis, IN Hollywood Glamour presents Bucket . Town: Four Centuries of www.speedmuseum.org Toymaking and Coopering in Through February 21, 2015 Hingham This newly endowed series fea- ofdesigner starlets gowns of the andperiod, jewelry including from the Old Sturbridge Village tures works from Adele and Leonard 1930s and ‘40s, focusing on the style - Sturbridge, MA Leight’s lives as collectors and dona- signers such as Adrian, Travis Banton Through January 18, 2015 tions of glass, ceramics, painting and andcostumes Chanel created for the screen by de of the era such as Trabert & Hoeffer- panel discussions, question and answer Mauboussin and and jewelry Paul Flato from makers Part of the “Four Centuries of sculpture. The series uses guided tours, supplier’sMassachusetts workshop Furniture” in a locked project, out this- events, and other activities, often con- Gold and the Gods: Jewels of. Ancient exhibition is inspired by a rediscovered- nectedsessions, directly film, demonstrations, to artists and designers social Nubia longing to descendants of the Hersey represented in the Leight Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston building at a farm in Hingham, MA, be Boston, MA collecting contemporary craft soon . www.mfa.org family of miniature-furniture makers. Adele and Leonard Leight began Through May 14, 2017 hand The tools, curr materialsent Herseys for hoops,opened a the chest late 1960s, they acquired early pieces full1830s-era of copper shed tacks in 2007 for fastening and found toy after getting married in 1949. In the- woodenware together, patterns, molds, This exhibition focuses on the - collectionby many of ranks the movement’s is frequently found featured museum’s collection of jewelry from - ing artists. Their contemporary glass neanAncient world Nubia and (in lands what south is now of Sudan).the Nile extantand both preindustrial finished and toymaker’s unfinished shop proj in As the conduit between the Mediterra ects. The workshop may be the only in exhibitionsThe Leights and also publications have amassed on the collectionssubject. of late 19th- and early Valley,Gold Nubia and was the knownGods focuses for its onluxury ex- Inthe Plain country. Sight: Discovering the 20th-century ceramics, glass and cavatedgoods—especially ornaments gold. from an early 20th- Furniture of Nathaniel Gould Peabody Essex Museum Salem, MA furniture, along with English, German century expedition by the museum www.pem.org and American ceramic tablewaresSusie Cooper with Harvard University, dating from Through March 29, 2015 from the 1920s through the 1950s. The for1700 their BC materials,to 300 AD, craftsmanship, including both English ceramic designer Nubian and foreign imports, prized (1902–1995) Marylandis a particular favorite. 100 treasures, including a gilt-silver The last exhibition in the “Four From Rye to Raphael: mummysymbolism mask and of rarity. Queen The Malakaye more than and researchCenturies of of Kemble Massachusetts Widmer Furniture” II into The Walters Story the Hathor project,the life and this works exhibition of Nathaniel is based onGould the , Walters Art Museum Baltimore, MD Planes, Trains,-headed and crystal Automobiles: pendant. Massachusetts Historical Society www.thewalters.org Selections from the Jean S. and using Gould’s account books at the - Through April 17, 2016 Frederic A. Sharf Collection can furniture history, Gould is now .rec - William Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ognizedOnce as an Salem’s obscur premiere figure in18th-cen Ameri - and Henry Walters of the 19th-centu- Boston, MA ry AmericanThe exhibition family examinesof rye whiskey dis- www.mfa.org tillers whose collections led to creation Through May 10, 2015 tury cabinetmaker. New scholarship, based on the recent discovery of his account ledgers and daybooks, has led Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Fall 2014/15 Audacious: The Fine Art of Wood from Durst Collection, Metlar-Bodine of many pieces, including monumental the Montalto Bohlen Collection House, Monmouth County Historical to the identification and re-attribution Peabody Essex Museum Association, Old Barracks Museum, Salem, MA Historical Society of Princeton, desks and bookcases, bombé chests, www.pem.org Salem County Historical Society and and scalloped-top tea tables carved February 21–June 21, 2015 from imported mahogany. Massachusetts collectors Robert - M. and Lillian Montalto Bohlen have more than 20 private collections. - The titleAnne of Rickeythe exhibition is bor pieces of contemporary wood art that rowed from a work stitched by Tren isassembled international this collectionin scope and of nearly diverse 100 in ton-born (1783–1846), who stitched “Hail Specimen of Female ChigusaArt” onto and her thesampler Art of in Tea 1798. in Japan form. New Jersey Princeton University Art Museum Hail Specimen of Female Art! New Princeton, NJ Jersey Schoolgirl Needlework, artmuseum.princeton.edu 1726–1860 Through February 1, 2015 Morven Museum & Garden Crafted in southern China several Chair with ball-and-claw feet, tea table Princeton, NJ hundred years ago, a ceramic vessel (above); bombé chest (below) by Gould. www.morven.org Through March 29, 2015 More than 150 examples of andused achieved as a tea-leaf a cult-like storage status jar after with its stitched works from private and arriving in JapanChigusa became a collectible Japanese tea connoisseurs praised its own name: . Generations of- public collections representing every Chigusa and highlightregion of aspectsNew Jersey of the are educational on display. theattributes Art of Teain their in Japan diaries introduces and deco environment,Both elaborate social and modest class and examples familial rated it with accessories. artifacts that illuminate the ritual and artChigusa of the along Japanese with teaother ceremony objects overand situation experienced by young girls in the 18th and 19th centuries. In some girlcases, or thesisters, exhibit cousins, reunites, schoolmates for the first willthe centuries.permanently enter the collection time, needlework created by the same of theOnce Freer the Gallery exhibition and ends, never Chigusa travel

and other close relations. examples The e xhibitionfrom every features part of loans the state, multipleagain. authors and covers Japanese Gould’s work is distinguished by and-claw feet, extended knee returns, from across the country. In presenting An accompanying publication is by andits attention carved pinwheels to graining, and carved scallop ball- environment from Cape May to Sussex the exhibition distills the educational esthetics, historyNew and York material culture. In Plain Sight presents 20 works accurate picture of girls’ academies and Beautiful Users ofseashells. Gould’s furniture alongside paint- counties. The exhibition also offers an Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian ings, archival materials, decorative arts conducted in preparation for the ex- Design Museum items and digital media elements that those who taught at them. Research - New York, NY provide insight into the makers and - www.cooperhewitt.org consumers of 18th-century American workshibition through uncovered the motifspreviously and designsunrec Through April 26, 2015 ognized connections between needle - augural events for the Cooper Hewitt’s design and culture. theemployed Metropolitan by different Museum instructresses. of Art, new This look e (seexhibition, News ),one introduces of several one in It is thought that only five of the 56 Colonial Lenders Williamsburg to the exhibition Founda include- of the fundamental changes in design chests of drawers he made survive. tion, Winterthur, DAR Museum,the NoneThe of hisresults 224 ofbedsteads Widmer’s has research been Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center - arefound. presented in a catalog that also at Vassar College, New Jersey State thinking over the past half-century: the Joyce King, Museum, Bergen County Historical shift toward designs based on observa Betsy Widmer, Dean Lahikainen Society, Cape May County Museum, tionsmid-20th-century of human anatomy industrial and designerbehavior. contains contributions by Gloucester County Historical Soci- Henry Beginning Dreyfuss with at Bellinsig Labshts of, thethe ety, Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead typesand others. of wood The he catalog used in uses desks Gould’s for the Museum, Hopewell Museum, Hunt- accounts to show how he identified the erdon Historical Society, Leslie inclusiveexhibition over shows the how past definitionsdecades; design of the- “normal” person have become more domestic market. 16/Fall 2014 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Museum Maira Kalman vase compared with Tinker Hatfield’s as users rather than consumers; and contoured sole for the Nike Air Jordan usersers have now come act asto designersthink of their themselves subjects Skira/Rizzoli by ) is an unconventional (published sneaker and the water pattern of a late - by Cooper Hewitt; distributed by - through phenomena such as 3-D print alphabet book for children of all ages 19th-century Japanese fabricMilton com Glaser ing and “Ikea hacking.” that uses collection objects to look at pared with the pattern of Bob Dylan’s Among the 120 objects in the Makingdesign concepts. Design hair in a 1966 poster by exhibition are ergonomically designed Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian are a few of the juxtapositions that thermostatobjects, from to Dreyfuss’s Amos Winter Princess’s Lever - Design Museum introduceMaking the fundamentals Design: Cooper of Hewitt,design. telephone and Honeywell Round New York, NY Smithsonian The exhibition Design is Museum accompanied Collec- by touch samples of types of handles; and www.cooperhewitt.org tiona book, aged Freedom wheelchair; a bin of Closing date not known Beautiful Users is dedicated to , the first Cooper Hewitt collection themultiple memory prototypes of Bill Moggridge of design objects., a Hewitthandbook Sisters to be Collect produced since 1997. pioneer of human-centered design who Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum GriDCompass) and was the director of New York, NY designed the first laptop computer (the www.cooperhewitt.org Beautiful Users Ellen Lupton, Closing date not known Cooper Hewitt from 2010 to 2012. Princeton Architectural by Press, ac- Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt and recog- co-published by Cooper Hewitt and nizes This their exhibition central role shares in the the museum’s story of founding and genesis of its core collec- Mairacompanies Kalman the exhibition. Selects Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian The museum was originally part of Design Museum thetion. Cooper Union for the Advance- New York, NY ment of Science and Art, conceived www.cooperhewitt.org Through June 14, 2014 Among the works on view are as “a practical working laboratory,” where students and designers could be inspired by actual objects. Mairateapots, Kalman illustrated of lamps books, in porcelain the Cooper figures of ballet dancers, paintings by century mourning samplers, and the Hewitt collection, a selection of 19th- - coln and his gold pocket watch, which wasfuneral returned pall of to President working Abraham order for Lin this Purkersdorf Sanatorium Dining Room Side Chair, bent and laminated beechwood, exhibition. leather, metal, 1904–06. Designed by Josef Hoffmann, manufactured by Thonet Brothers, made for Purkersdorf Sanatorium, Vienna, Austria. Photo: Matt Flynn, © Smithsonian Institution. -

This is the first in a number of col Birdcage, lacquered wood with inlaid bone lection exhibitions and brings together and ivory, ebony, carved wood, ivory, jade, more than 350 objects, including amber, cloisonné enamel, glazed porcelain; furniture, lighting fixtures, tableware, cage – 56.5 x 33 cm diam. (22 1/4 x 13 in.); clothing, jewelry, books and posters, base – 6.5 x 33 cm diam. (2 9/16 x 13 in.)., - China, 1735–96. Photo: Ken Pelka, © Smith- for an overview of five key elements of sonian Institution. design: color (red, for this initial instal The red of Jonathan Ive’s design To elevate the state of decorative Pocket watch, gold, property of President lation), form, line, pattern and texture. for the iPod Nano compared with design in America, they looked to the Lincoln. the red of the Campana Brothers’s Musée des Arts Deécoratifs (Paris, Ah-Ha to Zig-Zag: 31 Objects from Vermelha chair upholstered in cotton Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design rope, the form of an Alvar Aalto glass France) as a model. At home and in their travels to Europe, they purchased Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Fall 2014/17 The 16 models and four accompa- nying drawings display the structure works of both technical ands artistic and design for staircases in pulpits, merit. They also solicited friends and acquaintancesIn 1907, the fory createdcontributions an advisory of committeeobjects or funds consisting to grow of leadersthe collection. from bell towers, church domes, department stores and private homes. They also J.P. Morgan document the European tradition of the artistic, collecting and business design instruction, with examples by Baking dish, Pyrex glass. andcommunities. donated collections Industrialist of 16th-cen- both aspiring and established master was one of the committee’s members, Tools:craftsmen. Extending Our Reach anniversary of the 1915 invention of drawings and prints, as well as Italian Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Pyrex Organized in honor of the 100th tury textiles. The acquisition of French- Design Museum ment to 18th- and early 19th-century New York, NY , the exhibition features objects- designsdrawings, on reflects paper in the addition sisters’ to commit decora- www.cooperhewitt.org and materials from the first pie dish- to Through May 25, 2015 mentsthe stackable and ephemera measuring such cup as redeproduct Cooper signed in 1983, as well as advertise aretive antiquearts. Greek vessels from the Hewitt and nine other Smithson- Among the 108 objects onMeissen view ian collectionsAbout 175 –objects the Freer from Gallery of tocookbooks the production and catalogs. of temperature- porcelain and Wedgwood stoneware, Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, The origins of Pyrex can be traced- 18th-fifth and and sixth 19th-century centuries architecturalBC, National Air and Space Museum, Corning Glass National Museum of African Art, Na- Worksresistant (now borosilicate Corning glass Incorporated for rail - tional Museum of American History, Theroad new lantern glass globes was used by for products birdcages, tapestry and embroidery National Museum of Natural History, that required temperature-resistant ). fragments, and block-printed wallpa National Museum of the American Passionpers spanning for the some Exotic: 150 Lockwood years. Indian, Smithsonian American Art to explore using this glass for house- de Forest, Frederic Church Museum, Harvard-Smithsonian Cen- glass. A few years later, Corning began Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian ter for Astrophysics and Smithsonian Design Museum Libraries – explore the congruence of wares, marketing it as Pyrex. - New York, NY Highlights include: www.cooperhewitt.org • The first 12 Pyrex products intro- Closing date not known good use and good design. - duced to the consumer market in 1915. This display evokes the fascination The exhibition surveys how tools • Durable military mess ware de of late 19th-century America with the radicalextend theinnovations, human body while and others consid have veloped by Corning Glass Works in the- - remaineders how some almost tools unchanged break into in lives form as 1940s. - • Pieces of nearly 150 Pyrex opal arts of India, where the library’s orna ware patterns. mental teak woodwork was carved. and function for centuries. The exhibi one showing• Pyrex measuring how the moon cups. landing Objects on view include drawings, choppertion spans made 1.85 from million volcanic years rock,of tool to a • Pyrex advertisements, including books, stencils, furniture and carved use and design—from a Paleolithic panels by de Forest; works on paper - inspired the Horizon Blue pattern. work,by Church; a wall and hanging objects and from a silver-inlaid the 16th live feed of the sun transmitted by an The exhibition is accompanied by a through 19th centuries—such as tile drawingsorbiting satellite. for the telescoping shopping website featuring the museum’s Pyrex- that Church, de Forest and Carnegie cart Otherand the hig ice-creamhlights are scoop; the prototype comput- holdings of more than 2,000 objects, - ewer—that originated from the region er chips designed for advanced military turersortable World by pattern Kitchen and/or date, spon use; microscopes and telescopes; and sored by global housewares manufac Modelswould have & Prototypes called the East. Strut: The Peacock and. Beauty in Art Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Hudson River Museum Design Museum a remote-controlledThe accompanying “robobee” Tools: Extend smaller- Yonkers, NY New York, NY ingthan Our a 25-cent Reach piece. www.hrm.org www.cooperhewitt.org Through January 15, 2015 Rotating displays (published by Cooper The gallery showcases the models Hewitt) features more than 200 images America’sand essays. Favorite Dish: Celebrating Decorative objects for the home Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw that a Century of Pyrex frompresent the concepts 19th-century’s of beauty Gilded symbolized Age and provideof staircases insights donated into theirto Cooper role in Hewitt the Corning Museum of Glass 1920sby the peacockArt Nouveau and itsand fan Art of Deco feathers, until designby process; range in height from 6 Corning, NY inches to 4 feet; and date from the late www.cmog.org June 6, 2015–March 17, 2016 Modernism’s ethos of “less is more” caused a brief decline in the peacock’s 18th to the early 20th century. 18/Fall 2014 Newsletterpopularity. of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. - Diane Carol Brandt, the Vlachos ers in geometric patterns in the lamps Family Fund and the David Berg of Louis Highlights Comfort include Tiffany peacock and gildedfeath tion over the past three centuries. - Foundationby Crown Derby porcelains; parade The exhibition features clothing for costumes; Charles R. Knight firefighters, courtesans, actors and chil traded throughout. the entire Medi- dren. Patterns include sea life, demons, Glassware signed by Ennion was aura “Bengal Ball, clouds and flowers, later evolving to during archaeological excavations at BarbaraTiger and Takenaga Peacock” ,(1928); Federico works Uribe, IIinclude designs nightclub featured performers, warplanes, cameras,tanks, terranean world and has been found Triciaby contemporary Wright and artists Dillon L Lundeen train tickets and athletes. World War complete or fragmentary vessels in the Goldschlag some of which even were used for sites from Israel to Spain. Of the 37 soldiers , guns bombs and swastikas, - more than three. dozen museums, galler- period,exhibition, including 24 are oneby Ennion. of only twoExamples ies andThe privateexhibition collections, includes including works from the andchildren’s prints clothing.. showing kimonosThe objects textiles are ac by other named glassworkers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smith- companied by paintings, photographs Aristeas sonian American Art Museum, the Jasonintact ,works Neikais by andEnnion’s Meges closest rival, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts propagandabeing manufactured. kimonos that the Met , as well as beakers signed by and Yale Center for British Art The exhibitionNorman includes Brosterman wartime, . a dealer, and parts of a collection of A selection of unsigned blown Judaica . bought from glass illustrates Ennion’s influence on Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired from collectors Arthur museumsthe nascent and Roman private glass collections industry. in New York, NY andabout Charlotte 600 Japanese Vershbow books the museum The exhibition features works from- www.metmuseum.org Also on display are items loaned cluding the Corning Museum of Glass Through January 12, 2015 John C. Weber. and his (NY);Europe, Israel Israel Antiquities and the United Authority States, in A late 19th-century silver meno- curator, Julia B. Meech and Israel Museum (Jerusalem); Eretz rah made in Lviv, Ukraine, is one of 10 bylend collector kimonos to the Asian Art Mu- Israel Museum (Tel Aviv); British Mu- seum (San Francisco, cA),. Weber Museum will of seum; Louvre (Paris, France) Museo International Folk Art (Sante Fe, NM) di Antichità (Turin, Italy); Musei 1866–1872,examples of Judaicathe ceremonial made between lamp, cast, and Miho Museum Civici del Castello Visconteo (Pavia, 1850 and 1900 on display. Made in Italy); Museo Archeologico Nazionale - (Kyoto, Japan) for di Adria (Italy); Yale University Art chased and engraved with elaborate Ennion:exhibitions Master next ofyear. Roman Glass Gallery Newark Mu- themotifs, Great is oneSynagogue of the largest in Lviv silver and is Ha on Metropolitan Museum of Art seum (NJ); Chrysler Museum of Art loannukkah from lamps the Moldovan known. It was Family made Col for- New York, NY (Norfolk, (New VA); YunwaiHaven, CT); Lou Collection lection www.metmuseum.org (New York, NY); and Strada Collection - Through April 13, 2015 . Glassmaking originated around Shlomo Moussaieff, who had the The eight-branched Hanukkah Me (Scaldasole, Italy). Six works are from norah commemorates the Maccabean Dr. - revolt against the Seleucid Empire and 2500 BC in Mesopotamia and, by the initial concept for the exhibition. - representthe reconsecration the miracle of thein which Jewish the Holy last mid- to first millennium BC, had spread A catalogYale University accompanying Press the, is exhibi made Temple in 165 BC. Its eight branches remainedthroughout limited, the ancient however, world. until The the tion, published byAdelaide the Met Milton and distrib de lasted only one day, kept the temple number of vessels made from glass Grootuted by Fund , with additional support jug of pure olive oil, which should have and closed multipart molds, in the possible by the introduction of the use of the blowpipe Ancient glassworking techniques Kimonosmenorah alight for eight days. from Moussaieff. - Metropolitan Museum of Art late firstThese century advances BC andrevolutionized the early first the New York, NY century AD, respectively. - are demonstrated within the exhibi www.metmuseum.org tion through a video commissioned by Through January 24, 2014 allglass and industry allowing under producers the Roman to create Em a the museum and filmed at the Roman- pire, making glass vessels accessible to style wood-fired furnace at Villa Borg,Corn - work of textiles historian Terry Satsu- ingGermany. Museum of Glass (NY) from May ki MilhauptThis exhibition, whose memorializes widower, Curtis the J. wide range of shapes, sizes and usages. 15–October The exhibition 19, 2015 will be at the Milhaupt Kimono: Some of the earliest vessels made by A Modern History Reak- mold-blowing bear the names of the Chinese Whispers: Tales. of the East tion Books/University, competed her of book, Chicago craftsmancraftsmen calledwho “signed” Ennion the made molds. out - in Art, Film and Fashion Press , published by standing In the examples early first of century Roman AD,mold- a Metropolitan Museum of Art Satsuki Milhaupt studied the New York, NY way that. kimonos present political www.metmuseum.org positions and interests in westerniza- blown glass. Products of his workshop May 7–August 16, 2015 are the focus of the exhibition. The exhibition is made possible Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Fall 2014/19 Yale University Press - with Chinese costumes, paintings, though unaware, explains the relevance porcelains Through and high other fashion art, as juxtaposed well as Chi - by , will be avail Earth. Being in company with angels, Inable Company in early May.with Angels: Seven China has fueled the creative imagina- Rediscovered Tiffany Windows ofWhat the angelWould stained Mrs. Webb glass Do?windows. nese films, this exhibition explores how Munson Williams Proctor Arts A Founder’s Vision This is the Costume Institute’s Institute Museum of Art and Design (MAD) tion for centuries. - Utica, NY New York, NY rial department since AngloMania: www.mwpai.org www.madmuseum.org Traditionfirst collaboration and Transgression with another in curato Through January 4, 2015 Through February 8, 2015 British Fashion in 2006, a partner- glass angels created in 1902 in the stu- Chinese dios Thisof Louis exhibition Comfort features Tiffany stained (1848- Whispersship with the features Department more than of European 100 - examplesSculpture ofand haute Decorative couture Arts. and avant- garde ready-to-wear alongside Chinese 1933)The that rare we windows made for were a Swedenbor displaced whengian church the church in Cincinnati, was razed OH. in 1964 - artversations and filmic through representations time and space, of China. crates, the eight-foot-tall windows focusesA series on Imperial of “whispers,” China; orNationalist con for highway construction. 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and 1930s; and CommunistMadame Welling China. - unmarkedbasements cratesand a barnin 2001 for andnearly called 40 a tonVignettes Koo, Madame are devoted Chiang to “women Kai-shek of stained-glassyears. A new ministerexpert who opened recognized the (style,”Soong including May-Ling ) and Empress Tiffany’s characteristic opalescent Dowager Cixi. Fashion from the 1700s to the andglass, restoration designs and of techniques.the angel windows Church arts from Imperial China, including archives confirmed the attribution, present is juxtaposed with decorative Cleaning the last window revealed and-white porcelain, mostly from the Tiffany’sbegan in 2004.signature and In Company jade, lacquer, cloisonné, and blue- with Angels, Inc. - dedicated to Chinese opera focuses on zation, was formed to preserve and ex- performerMet’s collection. Mei Lanfang, A thematic who vignette inspired , a nonprofit organi John Galliano Christian 50 percent of Tiffany studios’ church Dior - windowhibit the productionwindows. Since does an not estimated survive, ’s spring 2003 Falling Blue, blown glass, 21.5 x 12.5 x 6 in. Haute Couture Collection, ensem (54.6 x 31.8 x 15.2 cm), 1969. Harvey Littleton bles from are shown alongside Mei’s suchThe rediscoveries windows feature are significant the hallmark (American, 1922–2013). Giorgiooriginal operaArmani, costumes. Sarah Burton (Al- events in the history of American glass.- What Would Mrs. Webb Do? exander Designers McQueen in the), eRobertoxhibition Cavalli, include ored iridescent glass (favrile) examines the pioneering support of Peter Dundas (Emilio Pucci), Tom andof Tiffany’s his designers artworks: created jewel-toned dramatic col Aileen Osborn Ford (Yves Saint Laurent), John visual effects through the use. ofTiffany color Webb, who founded the Museum of Galliano (Dior), Jean Paul Gaultier, Contemporarycontemporary craft Craft by in 1956, which Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo - Museum of Arts and Picciolo (Valentino), Craig Green, and light, in a variety of materials. Desig Ground-Zero, Guo Pei, Marc Jacobs decorativeIn addition arts createdto the back-lit in Tiffany’s win stu- createdbecame overthe the past 70 years are on (Louis Vuitton), Mary Katrantzou, diosdows, – thelamps, exhibition vases, ceramics, features aenamels, range of n (MAD). More than 100 Whartonobjects Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel), Ralph Lau- metalwork and furniture – drawn from Esherick, Sam Maloof and Joris Laar- ren, Ma Ke, Martin Margiela, Alexan- the museum’s permanent collection mandisplay, includingJack furniture Lenor by Larsen and der McQueen (Givenchy), Kate and - Lia Cook Peter Voulkos Laura Mulleavy (Rodarte), Anna Sui, trates how stained glass masterpieces and Jun; textiles Kaneko by Harvey Vivienne Tam, Isabel Toledo, Dries and select loans. A special display illus Littlefield; ceramics and Judith by Schaechter; van Noten, Vivienne Westwood, - ; glassJohn by Prip and Jason Wu and Laurence Xu, among gianare created. denomination is that the purpose Myra Mimlitsch-Gray of humanA centr lifeal istheme to prepare of the toSwedenbor live as Nanetteand metalwork L. Laitman by and the Windgate Andrew Bolton, angels in heaven and that angels are Foundation , among others. others. - A publication by are also featured. produced by the Met and distributed present and contribute to daily life on The first part of the exhibition fea 20/Fall 2014 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Alan was the second male to This retrospective includes 55 Memorial ceramic pieces from 1967 through tures works by American makers from Art Gallery 2012, including his studies for the larg- craftsthe 1950s–late institutions 1960s that whom she launched Webb – become a docent at the est hand-cut architectural installation thesupported, American with Craft information Council, about School (MAG; Rochester, NY). - of American Craftsmen and World He became a member of the museum Crafts Council – and museum achieve- board in 1975 and remains an hon in the world – the “Earth Cloud” wall orary member of the board andCorning its sculpture atNorth SUNY-Alfred. Carolina MuseumDirectors’ of Circle; Glass Nancy died in 2010. Beyond Craft: Decorative Arts from ments under her leadership. “The servedHe was asnamed chairman a fellow of the at theNational the Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Objects:The USAsecond exhibition” part focuses traveled on people to 30 Museum Trustee (CMOG;Association NY) and has Eagle Collection museums in the U.S. and abroad. Sections of the collection include Mint Museum (MTA). Charolotte, NC like Laitman who continueArchives to fulfill of - www.mintmuseum.org AmericanWebb’s vision Art/Smithsonian and includes excerpts Institu - ited“The with Great reviving Mothers,” a dying which art features of potter- Through February 22, 2015 tionfrom oralrecordings histories of of235 American crafts- pieces from five women who are cred Beyond Craft highlights studio

Acquisitions demonstrate the role of making in the Pueblos; “Keepers of the the 2000s, with a special focus on the themen Windgate with examples Foundation of their inwork. shaping stylesTradition,” with withtraditional works techniquesfrom modern and objects made from the mid-1960s to potters who combine contemporary- The heart of the collection is in craft as it supports makers and non- 1960s–1980s. the conversation about contemporary standards; and “Artists without Res Peter Betty Wood- ervation,” which has works by artists Voulkos,ceramics, Violaparticularly Frey and works Stephen made deby profitman’s institutions. deconstructed-vase wall instal- whoThe are Camernot definedoses also by geographical supported in or- StaeblerCalifornia-based artists such as Highlights includeWendell Castle philosophicaldividual artists boundaries. and Alan has helped the with tusk-like legs and handles; a hand- Rockwell Museum make purchases of , who revolutionized the field lation; a dresser by pottery, including Margaret Tafoya’s Earlby advocating and Betty a Woodmansculptural and introduce abstract Katherine Westphal; John Prip’s trendsesthetic. developed Clay art by in ceramistsother regions like ofJack silver-gilttinted, appliquéd martini fabricset; a screen-printedwall hanging and Joseph Lonewolf - by Robert Engle; “Long Neck Jar with Carved Avanyu” - Beatrice Wood; enamels ’s “Set of 20 Min America in the post-war period. ceramicJune Schwartczvase screen; andby woven mono- Infiniteiature Graduated Place: The Sfgraffito Ceramic Pots.” Art of The EaglesWendell collected Castle in other deco ceramics by Kay Sekima- Wayne Higby rative arts media. JohnHighlights Garrett include, and chiby Jeannine Falino is Memorial Art Gallery furniture by Joyce, abstract Scott filamentsa DAS by textile artist Rochester, NY andwall-hangings Earl Pardon by . Adjunct curator www.mag.rochester.edu jewelry and metalwork by On Fire contributor. Wayne Higby uses the imagery of . Rockwell Museum of Western Art canyons, rock cliffs and lakes as a ve- Corning, NY hicle for meditating on the intersection www.rockwellmuseum.org Through April 1, 2016 national attention in the early 1970s - of intimacy and immensity. He gained tion of Alan and Nancy Cameros of Rochester,This exhibition NY, who started features collecting the collec for raku-fired vessels based on the pottery in New Mexico, when Nancy Colorado landscapes of his childhood. picked up a pot from the Acoma Pueblo thatAfter continued a visit to China to reference in 1991, landscape, he began - working with slabs of glazed porcelain though cast-formed and mass-produced, A longtime professor at the NYS itthat led depicted to a collection Pueblo of sacred more clowns.than 250 Al butCollege as a focalof Ceramics point of atmeditation. Alfred Univer -

The couple started in collecting Alfred’s Schein-Joseph International pieceswith glass of Southwestern art – Nancy’s pottery. father was a Museumsity, Higby of is Ceramic director andArt curator of glasscutter at Dorflinger, a glass fac- the American Craft Movement Vision- tory that provided glass to the White ary Award from the Museum. He receivedof Arts and Design (New York, NY) and the president; she lived in Corning when Master of the Media Award and the Dis- Lectern, cherry wood., 1975 Wendell Castle House when Abraham Lincoln was (American, 1932). © Museum of Fine Arts, worked for the Corning Museum of James Renwick Alliance, Smithson- Houston (TX). Glassshe was young; and family members iantinguished Institution Educator Award from the

(CMOG). (Washington, DC). The 80 to 90 objects by 50 artists Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Fall 2014/21 Washington products in a changing array of new A Celebration of Lino Tagliapietra also include Ralphceramics, Bacerra, fiber art, Ruth studio Museum of Glass Duckworth,furniture, glass, Robert jewelry Ebendorft, and works Sam Tacoma, WA anddesigns. architecture Loos pursued not as an art evolutionary products, Maloof,on paper Albert by Paley, Tom Patti and www.museumglass.org strategy that viewed utilitarian objects Takeshi Yasuda Through February 15, 2015 Beyond Craft The Museum of Glass but asThese the discretetwo contrary background mindsets for rep - Museum of Fine. Arts, Houston the work of Lino Tagliapietra, Vene- individualresent fundamental lifestyles. interpretations of is organized by the tian glass maestro and internationally celebrates the tasks of modern architects and de- Cindi Strauss and Janet Koplos (TX). recognized teacher and artist, in honor signers and images of modern lifestyles An illustrated catalog features text by . Madeof his 80that the birthday. Museum: Iittala Birds of the emancipated citizen. by Toikka The exhibition presents key works, Museum of Glass their influences, and the impact of the Tacoma, WA sectionswork of Hoffmannshow the achievementsand Loos. and www.museumglass.org developments Beginning ofwith the 1750, previous the firstgenera tw-o Through February 22, 2015 Birds by Toikka are on display Tierra y Oro #2, fiber with gold leaf, 1986. with prototypes of Museum of Glass tions The upon centr whichal section Hoffmann is dedicated and Loos to Olga de Amaral (Colombian, 1932–). exclusives, including the newest thebuilt period or to whicharound they 1900, reacted. using original © Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (TX). - furniture and models for a contrast Pennsylvania limited-edition design, “Ana’s Hum drawings as well as utilitarian objects,- Bright Lights, Big City: The Elizabeth mingbird.” Johnston Prime Dollhouse and International between these two opposing inter Toy Collection Austria interiorspretations created of modern around lifestyles. the same For time Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts Ways to Modernism: Josef Hoffmnn, the first time, reconstructions of two Bethlehem, PA Adolf Loos and Their Impact historicbethlehem.org/?historic- Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/ by Loos and Hoffmann are shown. In- site=kemerer-museum-of- Contemporary Art nizedthe bedroom into a strict from system Hoffmann’s of square Salzer decorative-arts Vienna, Austria Apartment (1902), objects are orga Through January 14, 2015 www.mak.at/en - As the Industrial Revolution Through April 16, 2015 macyornamentation, through textiles while thethat bedroom he did not in progressed, factories popped up and - Loos’s apartment (1903) evokes inti trasting selection of works from two Two other segments illuminate the pioneersThe e ofxhibition Modernism, presents complete a con with design. down the East Coast and millions of people flocked to the cities in search continuation of Hoffmann’s approachOs- of fortune. The architecture of cities historicalJosef backgroundHoffmann (1870–1956) and examples and of karand StrnadLoos’s strategy: and Josef Human-centered Frank changed; homes had to be designed Adolftheir impact Loos up to the present day. - and socially oriented concepts by to accommodate an influx of people tects and designers in Vienna around “ combine and the wealthy business tycoons built 1900 in the (1870–1933)generation after were Otto archi Wag- the two mindsets.Margarete Reconstructions Schütte- their city estates. ner Lihotzkyof Hoffmann’s Boudoir of a great Elizabeth From rowhomesJohnston Primeto brownstones, Dollhouse star” (1937) and Collectionthe buildings show on display what life from would the have path (1841–1918). that led to the creation of utilitar- ’s “Working Single Woman’s Hoffmann followed a revolutionary Apartment” The internationally (1929) illustrate oriented contrary positions. been like in the Big City. ian objects and architecture as esthetic Ernst Plischke SingerAustrian & avant-garde Dicker Bernard is represented Rudofsky by’s interpretations ofand modern the Vienna lifestyles office of demonstrate a further. development of

- Loos’s cultural criticism. The final chapter shows the contin ued influence of Hoffmann’s and Loos’s approaches fromWays 1945 to Modernism: onward. Josef Miniatures in dollhouse living-room setting. Hoffmann, The exhibition Adolf Loos is andaccompanied Their Impact , by a catalog, 22/Fall 2014 Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Matthias Boeckl, Christoph Gowns on display include new Swedish Wooden Toys Thun-Hohenstein and Christian Museum of Decorative Arts Witt-Dörringedited by Paris, France - acquisitions as wellFrance as loans. www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr lustrations (MAK, in GermanVienna andBirkhäuser English, Medieval Morocco: An Empire from Through January 11, 2015 Verlagca. 300 pages with numerous color il African to Spain / The Louvre wood across different cultures and tra- , Basel).England Paris, France This exhibition tells theBard story Gradu of - Wedding Dresses: 1775–2014 www.louvre.fr/en ate Center: Decorative Arts, Design ditions. Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum Through January 19, 2015 History, Material Culture (New York, London, England - www.vam.ac.uk ern Islamic world in terms of its artistic toys and Swedish game culture through NY), the exhibition explores wooden Through March 15, 2015 productionThis exhibition and its place looks in at history, the west more than 250 toys and documents and includes examples of architectural from the Italian collection of Sovrin- into the history of wedding dress decoration, textiles, ivory and calligra- tendenza Capitolina, Culturali Beni This exhibition provides insights di Roma Capitale (Rome, Italy), Brio Victoria’s decision to wear white for Museum Museum colors and styles since before Queen clothing,phy. It also dating reunites from pieces the medieval of Islamic of Decorative Arts textiles that were made into European The t oys(Osby, cover Sweden) the 17th and through her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840 the 21st century, from (Paris, a dollhouse France). established white as the traditional era, when Europeans bought and stole- Burchard Whigham’scolor for wedding Norman gowns. Hartnell silk satin mentsfabrics and from wrappings Muslim lands of deceased and added Precht Highlights include Margaret them to robes for royalty, church vest Ulrikaattributed Eleonora to the sculptor (1685–1690) to one Items include a 12th-century crim- and commissionedLundby by Queen gown, with its 18-foot embroidered saints’ body parts. Themes include animals, dollhous- marketed by the brand (2010). train, for her 1933 wedding to Charles- es, educational toys, vehicles, seasons Sweeney. ason church fabric in with Toulouse a pattern and ofat peacocksmuseums The exhibition traces the develop and Arabic blessings that was found in children, parents, craftsmen and indus- and heroes of popular culture. Made by ment of the fashionable whiteCharles wedding thought the items were separated and trialists, these toys represent various Frederickdress and its Worth, treatment Charles by fashion James, soldin London, around Paris 1890 and through Florence. Stanislas It is Johndesigners Galliano, such asChristian Hartnell, Lacroix, Baron, a former wine merchant turned The show travels to the Bard techniques. Vivienne Westwood and Vera Wang art dealer in Paris who sold such pieces Graduate Center to J. Pierpont Morgan . From China to the (New Decorative York,NY). Arts: . Chinese Art in the Collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts Museum of Decorative Arts Paris, France www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr Through January 11, 2015 From China to the Decorative Arts

decades of the museum, as well as gifts presents acquisitions made in the first the passion for Chinese art in France, mainlyand bequests in the secondfrom collectors, half of the that 19th reflect cen-

The donors of these works were tury and first third of the 20th century. and materials, as well as shapes and purposes,fascinated ofby works certain from techniques China, the

renewing the French ornamental vo- broader Middle East and the Far East, recent World’s Fair - tionscabulary such from as Adalbert the earliest de Beaumont, to the most Owen Jones and Eugene periods. Victor Publica Collinot Wedding dress, silk and satin, designed by Norman Hartnell, 1933, given and worn by Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. contribute to the dissemination of these decorative registers. Newsletter of the Decorative Arts Society, Inc. Fall 2014/23 DAS Contribution

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