书名：Christopher Dresser Textiles

作者：Harry Lyons

ISBN：9781851498826

出版社：ACC Art Books 

出版日期：2018.4.30

尺寸：20.4 x 1.75 x 24.71 cm

装帧：精装

页码：128

图幅数：118彩色，26黑白

作者简介：

哈里·莱昂斯（Harry Lyons）对Dresser的设计非常感兴趣，他于1999年在新世纪画廊举办了一场关于这位设计师作品的开创性展览。他也是库珀·休伊特2004年Dresser展览目录的主要资助者，该展览目录位于纽约和伦敦V&A美术馆。

内容简介：

Christopher Dresser以设计和相关技术方面的开创性进展而被人们铭记，他将机械运用到设计中，让好的设计负担得起。他是19世纪70年代制造商的热门顾问，其中最著名的有Barlow&Jones、Tootal、Warner&Sons、Turnbull&Stockdale和Wardle.本书记录了这位设计师的大量纺织品纹样设计作品。

编辑推荐：

"About the Author

Harry Lyons's passion for Dresser goes back many years: he has searched out a huge range of previously unrecognised Dresser designs. He has frequently lectured and written on Dresser, and held a ground-breaking exhibition of the designer's work at the New Century Gallery in 1999. He was also a major contributor to the Cooper Hewitt 2004 Dresser exhibition catalogue, in New York and at the V&A, London."

内容推荐：

"A significant collection of textile works from a prolific yet often-overlooked designer, whose influence is felt to this day

• Dresser stands out among his contemporaries, both for his efforts to make good designs affordable and his embracing of mechanisation

• Written by a renowned expert on Christopher Dresser

Dr Christopher Dresser is best remembered for his pioneering advances in design and associated technology. In the new industrial world of the nineteenth century, Dresser was the first designer to understand that machinery was a good servant but a poor master; he made it his business to understand how machines worked.

His success gained him credibility. Dresser became a sought-after consultant to several textile manufacturers, most notably Barlow & Jones, Tootal, Warner & Sons, Turnbull & Stockdale, and Wardle, which allowed him to establish the largest design practice in Britain by 1870. Equally, it was his success in promoting textiles at affordable prices that attracted his popular following in the press. Unlike his contemporaries, he was interested in making designs available to everyone.

However, Dresser is less celebrated in comparison to other designers of the era, such as William Morris, because Dresser was obliged to abandon this campaign to improve British taste due to an unexplained illness in the early 1880s. At the same time, Morris was expanding his business just as the Arts and Crafts movement was beginning to gain momentum.

Despite being the first Victorian to address the decorative needs of all the population, there is a severe lack of appreciation for Dresser's work - whose influence can be found in many textiles that we take for granted today. This book redresses that balance, giving Dresser the monograph he deserves."