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Modernist textiles.(design trends)

From: The Magazine Antiques  |  Date: 9/1/2005  |  Author: Ledes, Allison Eckardt

When Raoul Dufy declared that "paintings have spilled from their frames on to our clothes and our walls" he was referring to the increasing number of modern painters who became enamored with textile design in the early part of the twentieth century. As Alain-Rene Hardy writes in his monograph Art Deco Textiles: The French Designers (Thames and Hudson, New York, 2003), there were several reasons for this. Advancing technology in the textile field, chiefly the development of chemical ...

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