Domestic bliss.(Home front: tips and trends from the world of residential design)

From: Residential Architect | Date: September 1, 2004| Author: Drueding, Meghan | Copyright information

josef and Anni Albers changed residential interiors forever. When the German-born, Bauhaus-educated artists emigrated to the United States

in 1933 they brought a holistic view of design incorporating bold new notions about color, material, and texture. Not content to work within the traditional boundaries of fine art, they created everyday household objects of lasting beauty and functionality.

A new exhibit at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, Na...

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The Independent - London ; Annelise Fleischmann, weaver: born Berlin 12 June 1899; assistant professor of art, Black Mountain College 1934-49; books include Anni Albers: on designing 1959, Anni Albers: on weaving 1965; married 1925 Josef Albers (died 1976); died Orange, Connecticut 9 May 1994. MENTION Anni Albers to any
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Forward ; Donadio, Rachel Forward 07-14-2000 Weaving Art From Threads of Craft: A New York Retrospective Highlights the Textile Art of Anni Albers By RACHEL DONADIO As a teenager in Berlin in 1914, Anneliese Fleischmann entered a poster competition for World War I orphans. Her entry depicted a row of girls
A Welcome Visit With The Alberses
The Washington Post ; It is often noted that Josef and Anni Albers, modernism's romantic duo, never worked together. He was an artist while she designed pioneering textiles, and even in the egalitarian Bauhaus, the distinction mattered. But a rare joint exhibition of their works at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design
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The Christian Science Monitor ; Byline: Kim Campbell Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK -- Long before it was considered cool to create home decor from cast-off industrial products, design alchemists Josef and Anni Albers elevated the simplest materials to high status. Glass, steel, wood, silk, and wool in
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International Herald Tribune ; Roderick Conway Morris International Herald Tribune 05-08-1999 Anni Albers was one of the last survivors of the Bauhaus group when she died in 1994 and perhaps the last significant member of it to receive proper recognition as an artist and designer in her own right. That she was for so long
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The Boston Globe ; STURBRIDGE Oct. 2-3 Old Sturbridge Village reaps the bounty of the season with a "Made in Massachusetts" weekend. Digging potatoes; pulling carrots, beets, and turnips; preserving foods; making cider; and plowing with oxen are among the chores for willing visitors. The village shows off its crops
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The Washington Post ; Only reluctantly did Anni Albers as a student at the Bauhaus in 1922 enroll in a weaving workshop, which she considered too "sissy." Yet so well did she succeed at what she later called "pictorial weavings" that she became the first weaver to have a one-person show at the Museum of Modern Art in
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