Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas - by Donna Ghelerter (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Marguerita Mergentime's textiles reshaped the sensibility of the 20th-century American home</strong></p><p><i>Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas</i> 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.</p><p>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. Today her Radio City designs can still be seen in the legendary venue, and her fabrics reside in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art; the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum at FIT; and the Allentown Art Museum.</p><p>In this volume, essays highlight Mergentime's life and career, and over 150 images illustrate her designs that brought asymmetry, politics, folk art and quizzes to the table. <i>Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas</i> reintroduces the woman who asked, "Are you allergic to meaningless uninspired patterns in printed cloths?" and places her squarely back on the scene.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A comprehensive volume that presents the personal voice...[and] comes to illuminate the career of this designer who came to shape a new sensibility of the American home.--Daniella Ohad "Daniella on Design"<br><br>A treat for what it brings to light of the pre-war modern home-style sensibility that blends modernist abstraction with representational floral motifs--and an unusual typographic sensibility. You may still find it hard to remember the name but the work is unforgettable.--Steven Heller "Print Mag"<br><br>Mergentime's designs, whimsical and self-aware, are the book's main draw, and they speak for themselves.--Mayukh Sen "Food52"<br><br>Once in awhile I come across a book which delights and informs in equal measure. This is one such book that offers an inspiring archive of designs appealing to those with an appreciation of pattern and colour, as well as those with an interest in typography, language and the social and cultural history of America.--Rebecca Hoyes "Selvedge"<br>
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