ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2022 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveDATE 4/1/2023 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Pattie Boyd in conversation with Dave BrolanDATE 3/30/2023 The Cold Gaze of trauma in Weimar artDATE 3/27/2023 'Donald Judd Spaces' new edition releases this week!DATE 3/25/2023 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore presents the Los Angeles book launch and signing for 'Ash Kolodner: Gayface'DATE 3/25/2023 Never a dull moment in ‘Alex Da Corte: Mr. Remember’DATE 3/23/2023 Back in Stock! 'Gordon Parks: Segregation Story,' expanded editionDATE 3/21/2023 Postmodern fashion genius in 'Cinzia Ruggeri: Cinzia Says...'DATE 3/20/2023 Welcome, Spring!DATE 3/18/2023 The spirit of exploration in 'Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun'DATE 3/15/2023 192 Books presents a Tony Feher panel discussionDATE 3/14/2023 Celebrate Pi Day with 'Einstein: The Man and His Mind'DATE 3/14/2023 Revised 'Philip Guston Now' on view at National Gallery of ArtDATE 3/10/2023 Hot book alert! 'Cyberfeminism Index' is out now from Mindy Seu and Inventory Press | EVENTSMADDIE GILMORE | DATE 3/24/2017Maddie Gilmore on the Textiles of Marguerita MergentimeMarguerita Mergentime has largely been forgotten in the history of American design, but she is the subject of West Madison Press's sprightly new book Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern Ideas. Born into a wealthy German-Jewish family in New York City in 1894, she embarked upon an "unorthodox" education in design, beginning with the progressive, hands-on approach of the Ethical Culture School in Manhattan, and culminating in evening art classes and self-directed independent study at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mergentime and her vibrant, uninhibited printed kitchen linens emerged on the New York design scene in the post-war 1930s—a time when manufacturers and industrial art institutions alike were beginning to shape a uniquely American style, coaxing "Americana" into the design sensibility of modern homes.![]() Marguerita Mergentime: American Textiles, Modern IdeasWEST MADISON PRESS LLC |