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ART & ARTISTS: Lucienne Day | Modern graphic design, Lucienne day, Textile patterns

I do love the textile designs of Lucienne Day. She and her husband Robin Day were a mid-century design power duo, often referred to as the British Eameses. Her designs were so groundbreaking and enduring that people still refer to them by name. Désirée Lucienne Day was born in 1917 and died this year aged 93. Inspired by abstract art, she pioneered the use of bright, optimistic, abstract patterns in post-war England, and eventually grew celebrated worldwide. Born in Coulsdon, Surrey…

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Slideshow: Britain's Mid-Century Female Designers | Dwell | Lucienne day, Robin day, Modern graphic design

“Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should–and must–question everything generally thought to be obvious. They must have an intuition for people’s changing attitudes. For the reality in which they live, for their dreams, their desires, their worries, their needs, their living habits. They must also be able to assess realistically the opportunities and bounds of technology.” –Dieter Rams

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We Have Closed Our Doors | Lucienne day, Surface pattern design, Printing on fabric

Effective 30/04/2024 Surface View will no longer be offering bespoke wall art and wallpaper murals. We want to take this opportunity to express our deepest gratitude to all of you for your support over the years.

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Pin on Pattern Play

From mid-century modernism to the swinging sixties through to the edgy, subversive seventies, British design post-1945 became an antidote to the sombre ethos of wartime, as designers found creative solutions to transform a nation still dealing with austerity and rationing.

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Art for the People: The Dazzling Textiles of Lucienne Day - the thread | Lucienne day, Textiles, Contemporary textiles

Lucienne Day was one of Britain’s foremost post-war designers, creating dazzling textiles that decorated almost every home across the country throughout the 1950s and beyond. Drawing on the English tradition for plant-based forms including flowers, grasses and seed heads, she went on to transform them into radical, abstracted repeat patterns, symbolising the regrowth of a...

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Pin by Hilary Astor on Fabric designs | Lucienne day, Textile design, Surface pattern design

The official site for furniture designer Robin Day and textile designer Lucienne Day tells the story of their lives & designs and shows all licensed products. The Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation is a design education charity established by their daughter Paula Day in 2012.

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VERY RARE 1950s GEORGES BRAQUE FABRIC LUCIENNE DAY PICASSO FULLER ERA TEXTILE

Very rare, impressive large scaled textile designed by Georges Braque and printed by Charles Bloom Inc. New York c.1956. An example of this textile is illustrated on pages 176-177 of Artists' Textiles...from

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