Carry me!
Subtitle: 1950's lucite handbags : an American fashion
By: Janice Berkson ; photography by John Bigelow Taylor
Contributors: Taylor, John Bigelow; Dixon Gallery and Gardens
Publisher: ACC Editions; Antique Collectors Club Dist
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Woodbridge, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781851495931
Subjects: Plastic handbags; Pictorial works; Lucite; Exhibitions
Description: This work celebrates some of the most fantastic and desirable handbags of the 1950s and 60s. All are constructed from Lucite, a transparent, acrylic plastic which was considered to be a radical and innovative substance at the time.
Notes: "The exhibition "Carry me! Lucite handbags from the Caryn Scheidt collection" will be on display at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee from October 18, 2009-January 17, 2010"--Acknowledgements.