TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dresser,Christopher
AU  - Whiteway,Michael
AU  - Morello,Augusto
ED  - Christopher Dresser. Un designer alla corte della regina Vittoria
TI  - Christopher Dresser, 1834-1904
SN  - 8884911028
U1  - 745.2092 21
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - Milan
PB  - Skira
KW  - Dresser, Christopher.
KW  - Industrial designers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Arts and crafts movement
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -