ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 11/27/2023 The Academy Museum presents Peter Spirer and Big Boy for a Los Angeles screening and signing of 'Book of Rhyme & Reason'DATE 11/27/2023 Forever ValentinoDATE 11/25/2023 Indigenous wisdom in 'Let's Become Fungal'DATE 11/23/2023 Happy Thanksgiving from Artbook | D.A.P.!DATE 11/20/2023 Holiday Gift Staff Pick: Kerry James Marshall: The Complete PrintsDATE 11/17/2023 Fotografiska presents a book signing with Andrew DosunmuDATE 11/17/2023 Shaggy and spontaneous, 'The New York Tapes' collects Alan Solomon’s mid-60s interviews for televisionDATE 11/17/2023 Book Soup presents the LA launch of 'Stephen Hilger: In the Alley'DATE 11/15/2023 Holiday Gift Guide 2023: Stocking StuffersDATE 11/15/2023 Havoc and stardust in Bruce Gilden's 'Haiti'DATE 11/14/2023 Holiday Gift Guide 2023: For the Art ObsessedDATE 11/13/2023 Holiday Gift Guide 2023: For the Photo LoverDATE 11/13/2023 ‘Going Dark’ probes the stakes of being seen | 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 |