Christopher Dresser, 1834-1904 /
Christopher Dresser, eighteen thirty four-nineteen hundred and four Christopher Dresser, 1834 to 1904
Michael Whiteway ; with a text by Augusto Morello.
- 207 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / From the Crystal Palace to Christopher Dresser / Doctor Christopher Dresser 1834-1904 / 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. Michael Whiteway -- Augusto Morello -- Michael Whiteway --
"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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Dresser, Christopher.--Exhibitions.
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