Christopher Dresser, 1834-1904 / Michael Whiteway ; with a text by Augusto Morello.

By:

Dresser, Christopher

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Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

8884911028
9788884911025

Other title:

Christopher Dresser, eighteen thirty four-nineteen hundred and four
Christopher Dresser, 1834 to 1904

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DDC classification:

745.2092 21

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Whiteway -- From the Crystal Palace to Christopher Dresser / Augusto Morello -- Doctor Christopher Dresser 1834-1904 / Michael Whiteway -- The Metropolitan Album -- Makers that Dresser Designed or Worked for. Minton, Stoke on Trent. Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, Stoke on Trent. Watcombe Terracotta, Torquay. Coalbrookdale, Shropshire -- Dresser's Designs Subsequent to his Visit to Japan. Hukin and Heath, Birmigham and London. James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield. Linthorpe Pottery, Middlesbrough. Benham and Froud, London. Art Furnishers' Alliance Co., New Bond Street, London. Elkington & Co., Birmingham and London. Richard Perry, Son & Co., Wolverhampton. Old Hall, Hanley. Ault, Swadlicote. James Couper & Sons, Glasgow.

Review: "Christopher Dresser was trained at the Government Schools of Design, and absorbed the principles of such design pioneers as Owen Jones and A. W. N. Pugin. He developed his own language to produce designs more suitable to the materials and processes used in their realization. In 1876-77 he visited Japan to study its arts and industries, and so impressed was he by his observations that his designs were transformed - he came to understand that decoration was not necessary to create beauty, and that even the most humble objects deserved to be well designed. On his return to London he embarked on the most remarkable series of designs of his career, culminating in the foundation of the Art Furnishers' Alliance in London's New Bond Street, a store dedicated to the artistic interior." "Dresser pioneered the aesthetic ideas that have dominated design over the last 100 years."--BOOK JACKET.

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"Christopher Dresser was trained at the Government Schools of Design, and absorbed the principles of such design pioneers as Owen Jones and A. W. N. Pugin. He developed his own language to produce designs more suitable to the materials and processes used in their realization. In 1876-77 he visited Japan to study its arts and industries, and so impressed was he by his observations that his designs were transformed - he came to understand that decoration was not necessary to create beauty, and that even the most humble objects deserved to be well designed. On his return to London he embarked on the most remarkable series of designs of his career, culminating in the foundation of the Art Furnishers' Alliance in London's New Bond Street, a store dedicated to the artistic interior." "Dresser pioneered the aesthetic ideas that have dominated design over the last 100 years."--BOOK JACKET.

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