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 3/2/2025 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'DATE 3/2/2025 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'DATE 3/2/2025 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'DATE 2/15/2025 Palm Springs Modernism Week presents Christopher Rawlins on 'Fire Island Modernist,' new editionDATE 2/15/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Charles Gaines and Huey Copeland launching 'The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism'DATE 2/13/2025 Rizzoli Bookstore presents John Dolan and Peter Hermann on 'The Perfect Imperfect'DATE 2/12/2025 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the 2025 CAA National ConferenceDATE 2/11/2025 Skira presents Bonnie Clearwater, David Mirvish and Eric N. Mack launching 'Glory of the World: Color Field Painting'DATE 2/9/2025 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' opens at the Hammer!DATE 2/7/2025 CARA presents Simone Fattal launching her new monograph in conversation with Negar AzimiDATE 2/5/2025 A book like no other: 'Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery'DATE 2/2/2025 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at Shoppe Object New York 2025DATE 2/1/2025 Celebrate Black History Month, 2025 | 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 |