Research Catalog

Title

Marguerita Mergentime : American textiles, modern ideas / Donna Ghelerter, editor ; with Virginia Bayer and Linda Florio.

Author

Ghelerter, Donna

Publication

• New York, NY : West Madison Press, [2017]
• New York, NY : Distributed worldwide by ARTBOOK / D.A.P.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bayer, Virginia
• Florio, Linda
• Mergentime, Marguerita, 1894-1941

Description

144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 27 cm

Summary

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.

Alternative Title

American textiles, modern ideas

Subjects

• Mergentime, Marguerita, 1894-1941
• Napkins > United States > History > 20th century
• Tablecloths > United States > History > 20th century
• Textile design > United States > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Madelyn Shaw -- Marguerita Mergentime: inventing tablecloths / Virginia Bayer -- Radio City Lilies: 1932 -- Garden flowers: 1935-1940 -- Shapes and colors: 1934, 1935 -- Folded -- Code signals: 1936 -- Tablecloths lie on a table / Donna Ghelerter -- Modern history: 1936 -- Folk flourishes: 1937, 1939 -- The typographic cloth / Linda Florio -- Table talk: 1936,1939, 1940-- Americana: 1939 -- Exhibitions.

Call Number

JQF 17-1491

ISBN

• 9780692768273
• 0692768270

OCLC

982448502

Author

Ghelerter, Donna, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Title

Marguerita Mergentime : American textiles, modern ideas / Donna Ghelerter, editor ; with Virginia Bayer and Linda Florio.

Publisher

New York, NY : West Madison Press, [2017]

Distributor

New York, NY : Distributed worldwide by ARTBOOK / D.A.P.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Bayer, Virginia, writer of supplementary textual content.

Florio, Linda, writer of supplementary textual content.

Mergentime, Marguerita, 1894-1941, artist.

Research Call Number

JQF 17-1491