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Marguerita Mergentime : American textiles, modern ideas /

This book serves as a definitive source on this lauded American designer. Working in the heady milieu of 1930s New York, Mergentime became best known for strikingly new printed fabrics, making her mark with tablecloths created to enliven American households with color, humor and entertainment. A mem...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ghelerter, Donna (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : West Madison Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Mergentime, Marguerita, > 1894-1941 > Catalogs.
Textile design > United States > History > 20th century > Catalogs.
Tablecloths > United States > History > 20th century > Catalogs.
Table of 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.