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2. William Morris textile designs - Wikipedia

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   William Morris textile designs. William Morris (1834-1898), a founder of the British Arts and Crafts movement, sought to restore the prestige and methods of hand-made crafts, including textiles, in opposition to the 19th century tendency toward factory-produced textiles. With this goal in mind, he created his own workshop and designed dozens of ...

3. Alexander Girard - Wikipedia

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   Known for. Architecture, textile design, interior design. Spouse. Susan Needham Girard née March (m. 1936) [1] Alexander Girard (May 24, 1907 – December 31, 1993), affectionately known as Sandro, was an architect, interior designer, furniture designer, industrial designer, and a textile designer. [2]

4. Art gallery - Wikipedia

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   A commercial gallery (Foster/White) in Seattle, Washington. An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. [1] The long gallery in Elizabethan and Jacobean ...

5. Althea McNish - Wikipedia

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   Althea McNish CM FSCD (15 May 1924 – 16 April 2020) was an artist from Trinidad who became the first Black British textile designer to earn an international reputation. [3] Born in Trinidad, McNish moved to Britain in the 1950s. She was associated with the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) in the 1960s, [4] participating in CAM's exhibitions ...

6. Lucienne Day - Wikipedia

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   Lucienne Day. Désirée Lucienne Lisbeth Dulcie Day OBE RDI FCSD (née Conradi; 5 January 1917 – 30 January 2010) was one of the most influential British textile designers of the 1950s and 1960s. Day drew on inspiration from other arts to develop a new style of abstract pattern-making in post-war British textiles, known as ‘Contemporary ...

7. Nick Cave (artist) - Wikipedia

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   Nick Cave (artist) Nick Cave (born February 4, 1959) is an American sculptor, dancer, performance artist, and professor. [1] He is best known for his Soundsuit series: wearable assemblage fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly, often made with found objects. He also trained as a dancer with Alvin Ailey and often ...