#decorative arts

[ira-scargeear]

Ukrainian traditional outfit on my Whispering Grass Cornelia.

The most tricky part is to find in-scale fabrics and findings with a proper patterns for this kind of costume. Embroidery on the shirt is imitated with a lace. The doll is 45 cm high and is available as fullset for purchase.

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

English designer Marthe Armitage (b. 1930) made a successful career of designing and manufacturing decorative wallpaper originally from handmade linocuts. Her designs have been featured in exhibitions, films, and documentaries. After studying at the Chelsea School of Art, Armitage began designing and hand printing linocut wallpaper designs in the 1950s. Her techniques moved to lithography, offset, and finally after 2018 to digital processes. The images shown her, including three original linocuts, are from her article "Patterns from Lino" in Matrix 11, Winter 1991, pp. 81-89, in which Armitage discusses her practice, evolutions in her methods, and her homage to William Morris. Today she is represented by the wallpaper design company Hamilton Weston. Armitage is a member and a former Master of the venerable Art Workers' Guild, which had its origins in the late 19th-century Arts and Crafts Movement.

These images of Marthe Armitage designs were snagged randomly from the Interwebs.

Matrix, printed at John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Risbury, Herefordshire, England, is a donation from our late friend Jerry Buff.

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[arthistoryanimalia]

Sauce tureen shaped like an Asiatic dormouse

Made in Jingdezhen, China; about 1745

Spotted at the “Outside In: Nature-inspired Design at Winterthur” exhibition

[lionofchaeronea]

Swan, Rush, and Iris (design for a dado wallpaper), Walter Crane, 1875

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Ewer and Tray.

Date: 4th quarter of the 16th century; 1st quarter of the 17th century (around 1585 - 1615)

Place of origin: Gujarat, India

Medium: Mother-of-pearl, shell.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Unguentarium.

Date: A.D. 1st-2nd century

Period/Culture: Roman Imperial

Medium: Transparent, almost colorless, slightly greenish glass.

[greenvillegreengirl]

Elevator doors, One LaSalle, Chicago

Original photo

[eyesaremosa1cs]

Philippe Wolfers -The Vampire (1899)

[useless-catalanfacts]

18th century tiles from Arenys de Mar (Barcelona Metropolitan Ambit, Catalonia).

Source: Museu d'Arenys de Mar.

[heaveninawildflower]

Jewelled Collar in the Shape of a Peacock Feather (1900) by Mellerio dits Meller.

Gold, diamonds and enamel.

Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum

[a-sculpture-a-day]

Nature unveiling herself, Ernest Barrias, 1899, marble and onyx, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

[imaginal-ai]

"Beautiful Youth with Vase"

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

VALENTI ANGELO

Italian American designer, printer, illustrator, and printmaker Valenti Angelo (1897-1982) created decorations and illustrations for over 225 books over his long career. He emigrated from Italy to the U.S. with his family in 1905, settling in Antioch, California. At age 19, he moved to San Francisco to begin his artistic career, and in 1926 he produced his first book illustrations for the legendary Grabhorn Press, for which he illustrated 45 publications. During the Depression, he moved east to Bronxville, N.Y., where he decorated and illustrated books for the Limited Editions Club and wrote and illustrated children's books for Viking Press.

Toward the end of his time in Bronxville, before moving back to San Francisco in 1974, Angelo handset, printed, decorated, and illuminated this checklist of his work, Valenti Angelo, Author + Illustrator + Printer, in his Bronxville studio in 1969 in a limited edition of 55 copies signed by the artist. The book includes a forward by Robert Grabhorn (1900-1973) and a memoir of Angelo by author Annis Duff (1904-1986). Our copy is another donation from the estate of our friend Dennis Bayuzick.

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[arthistoryanimalia]

For #InternationalCatDay 😻

Richard H. Recchia (American, 1885 – 1983) Persian Cat, 1931 Bronze, black patina, lost wax cast 49.53 x 26.03 x 30.48 cm (19 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 12 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1984.746

[pointandshooter]

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Face of Bhairava.

Date: ca. 16th century

Place of origin: Nepal