Marguerita Mergentime
Subtitle: American textiles, modern ideas
By: Donna Ghelerter, editor ; with Virginia Bayer and Linda Florio
Contributors: Bayer, Virginia, writer of supplementary textual content; Florio, Linda, writer of supplementary textual content; Mergentime, Marguerita, 1894-1941, artist
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780692768273
Subjects: Textile design; Napkins; Tablecloths; Textile designers; Biography; History
Other titles: American textiles, modern ideas
Description: This book serves as a definitive source on this lauded American designer. Working in the heady milieu of 1930s New York, Mergentime (1894-1941) became best known for strikingly new printed fabrics, making her mark with tablecloths created to enliven American households with color, humor and entertainment. A member of the influential American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen (AUDAC), Mergentime was a woman whose career placed her alongside Donald Deskey and Russel Wright, as well as visionary architect Frederick Kiesler, who designed the furnishings in her New York apartment. Mergentime reshaped the sensibility of the 20th-century home at a time when modernism was being defined, contributing original textiles to Radio City Music Hall, Wright?s American Way and the 1939 New York World?s Fair. Articles and advertisements promoted her career across the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Madelyn Shaw; title: Marguerita Mergentime: inventing tablecloths / Virginia Bayer; title: Radio City Lilies: 1932; title: Garden flowers: 1935-1940; title: Shapes and colors: 1934, 1935; title: Folded; title: Code signals: 1936; title: Tablecloths lie on a table / Donna Ghelerter; title: Modern history: 1936; title: Folk flourishes: 1937, 1939; title: The typographic cloth / Linda Florio; title: Table talk: 1936,1939, 1940; title: Americana: 1939; title: Exhibitions.