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HENRY CHAPMAN MERCER.
Term Paper ID:29225
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Career of the designer and architect. Influence of the Arts & Crafts Movement and William Morris. Mercer's early life. His architectural projects. Founding of the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in 1912 where he was chief designer. His artistic and commercial success. His design strategies. Use of his tiles/mosaics in public and private buildings.
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Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930) is best known today as the founder of the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works (1912), where he was the chief designer for many years, and as the architect and builder of several unusual structures. Mercer was heavily influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement and became an important proponent of its style and ideas in America. The pottery works flourished and Mercer's designs for decorative tiles became popular. They were featured in a number of public buildings but the most notable installations of his tiles are to be found in his castle-like home, Fonthill, in Doylestown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This home, Mercer's museum, and his tile works all reflect the eclectic 'medievalism' that characterized much of Arts and Crafts architecture in England and the United States. And, although he drew on many sources of
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ITALIAN DESIGN.
Term Paper ID:29106
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Focuses on post-World War II design in Italy.... More...
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Focuses on post-World War II design in Italy. Historical artistic tradition of Italian design. Aesthetic developed by cooperation between designer and manufacturer. Italy's sense of style. Reasons for Italy's pre-eminence in the field of design. Objects associated with Italian design such as the Vespa motor scooter, plastic furniture.
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This paper is a discussion of post-World War II design in Italy. Italy emerged from military defeat and economic turmoil to become one of the most important leaders of world design. In the beginning, most of its significant designers had been trained as architects, who worked with manufacturers to establish highly sophisticated approaches that transformed functional, everyday objects into distinctive works of art.
At the end of World War II, Italy stood defeated by the Allied forces, its economy shattered by years of war and its reputation in the West suspect as a traitor and enemy. Yet the nation also had a long tradition as an artistic leader, and its artists were quick to draw on that heritage in recovering from the devastation of war. Penny Sparke writes:
The stylish, mass-produced pieces of furniture, decorative household goods, electrical appliances, office equipment, cars and, latterly, designer clothes and accessories that have earned Italy such a key position in the world of contemporary material culture are, in essence, a mirror of that country’s bid for modernity and of its struggle, through the century, to
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