Candace Wheeler (1827-1923) changed the course of textile and interior design in the nineteenth-century America and was a driving force behind the professionalization of women in the design field. Inspired by the embroideries produced by England's Royal School of Art Needlework, which she saw at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Wheeler founded the Society of Decorative Art in New York. The organization offered instruction in the applied arts to women and helped them sell their work, providing some measure of ...
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Candace Wheeler (1827-1923) changed the course of textile and interior design in the nineteenth-century America and was a driving force behind the professionalization of women in the design field. Inspired by the embroideries produced by England's Royal School of Art Needlework, which she saw at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Wheeler founded the Society of Decorative Art in New York. The organization offered instruction in the applied arts to women and helped them sell their work, providing some measure of economic independence. Wheeler was acquainted with leading figures in the New York art world and, as a textile specialist, went into partnership with Louis Comfort Tiffany in an interior design firm; the company was commissioned to decorate lavish interiors for the Seventh Regiment Armory, the Union League Club, and the homes of wealthy New Yorkers. In 1883 Wheeler formed her own firm, Associated Artists, which produced both hand-wrought and machine-made textiles and was staffed entirely by women. Artistically, Wheeler had begun by taking as her model the accomplishments of advanced British designers such as William Morris and Walter Crane. In the course of her career she absorbed elements of Japanese design and developed a sophisticated American textile style in which the natural forms of native plants were interpreted as free-flowing designs. Moving away from the opulent works of early commissions, she took up the challenge of producing fabrics that were not only beautiful but also affordable and practical for use in middle-class homes. To accomplish this she explored unusual weaving and printing techniques, and in some cases invented new ones. Appointed director of design for the Woman's Building of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Wheeler helped establish an important, visible role for women in the arts. In the course of her life she also wrote influential books on decorating and cofounded a summer artists' colony. The story of this strong-willed, talented woman's career is also a revealing social history and a view of the transformation of American taste as the country grew increasingly confident and cosmopolitan. This publication, which accompanies an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, contains a biographical essay and a catalogue of about one hundred designs for textiles, wallpaper, and other interior furnishings by Wheeler and her associates. [This book was originally published in 2001 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.] Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
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Candace Wheeler. Fine in fine jacket. Color illustrations throughout. 276 pages. Small 4to, blue cloth with gilt lettering at the spine, pictorial d.w. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, (2001). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art October 10, 2001-January 6, 2002.
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Good in Good jacket. 8.75 x 11.5. Book and dust jacket has heavy edge wear. Binding tight. No writing. xii + 276. Published to accompany an exhibition of the design work of Candace Wheeler, a woman who changed the course of textile and interior design in the later quarter of the nineteenth century and the driving force behind the professionalization of women in the design field. Black and white and color illustrations.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book Minimal wear; previous owner's book plate on front end paper; other wise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; well illustrated with black and white photographs and reproductions of drawings and etchings as well as color reproductions of examples of Wheeler's textile designs; 276 pages; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
