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ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2024 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 7/15/2025 Join us at the Atlanta Gift & Home Summer Market 2025DATE 7/11/2025 Join us at the San Francisco Art Book Fair, 2025!DATE 7/6/2025 'Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me' is a book for lifeDATE 7/3/2025 This holiday weekend, consider the Lobster!DATE 7/1/2025 Hot Child in the City: Summertime Staff Picks, 2025DATE 6/30/2025 Head Hi New York Book Club presents 'Jasper Morrison: A Book of Things'DATE 6/30/2025 Raise your spades for Ron Finley, Gangsta GardenerDATE 6/27/2025 In Kent Monkman, a little mischief may lead to monumental changeDATE 6/26/2025 1920s Japanese graphic design in a playful boxed postcard setDATE 6/25/2025 Rizzoli presents Anderson Zaca with Thom (Panzi) Hansen for the NYC launch of 'Fire Island Invasion: A Day of Independence'DATE 6/22/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Dawoud Bey, Michelle Kuo and Joseph Logan on 'Jack Whitten: The Messenger'DATE 6/22/2025 Enlightening 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' is Back in Stock!DATE 6/21/2025 ICP Photobook Club presents Anderson Zaca on 'Fire Island Invasion' | 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 $39.95 free shipping |