Enid Marx: Brick Dust & Flowers
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Author: Emma Cunningham
This is a celebration of the life and achievements of Enid Marx, told through 12 objects. Enid Marx (1902–1998) was a leading artist and designer, collector and writer, who played an important role in British cultural life in the mid-20th century. Associated with Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden in the ‘outbreak of talent’ at the Royal College of Art in the 1920s, Marx excelled as a designer and printer of hand-blocked fabrics before branching into industrial woven patterns for London Underground and the wartime Utility Furniture Scheme. After making a significant contribution to book illustration, she went on to design postage stamps and patterns for laminates, becoming a Royal Designer for Industry and an advocate for better design training and industrial patronage. In parallel, with her life partner the historian Margaret Lambert, she formed a collection of ‘Popular Art’, which was bequeathed to Compton Verney in Warwickshire. The new exhibition, The Pattern of Life, Enid Marx and Modern British Design has just opened at Compton Verney, very highly recommended!The book is hardback, a high quality production, quarter bound with blue Brillantia cloth, printed at Graphius on 170gsm Magno Volume paper.
ISBN 9781912066834. Design for Today. hb. 28 pages. 22.5 x 18.5 cm.
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This is a celebration of the life and achievements of Enid Marx, told through 12 objects. Enid Marx (1902–1998) was a leading artist and designer, collector and writer, who played an important role in British cultural life in the mid-20th century. Associated with Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden in the ‘outbreak of talent’ at the Royal College of Art in the 1920s, Marx excelled as a designer and printer of hand-blocked fabrics before branching into industrial woven patterns for London Underground and the wartime Utility Furniture Scheme. After making a significant contribution to book illustration, she went on to design postage stamps and patterns for laminates, becoming a Royal Designer for Industry and an advocate for better design training and industrial patronage. In parallel, with her life partner the historian Margaret Lambert, she formed a collection of ‘Popular Art’, which was bequeathed to Compton Verney in Warwickshire. The new exhibition, The Pattern of Life, Enid Marx and Modern British Design has just opened at Compton Verney, very highly recommended!The book is hardback, a high quality production, quarter bound with blue Brillantia cloth, printed at Graphius on 170gsm Magno Volume paper.
ISBN 9781912066834. Design for Today. hb. 28 pages. 22.5 x 18.5 cm.
not yet published