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Square plates became a fashionable alternative to the more conventional round shape early in the 1930s, as designers sought to express a new vocabulary of geometrical forms inspired by the Machine Age. Difficult to produce without sagging corners or warped edges, these shapes were technologically and aesthetically challenging. Jean Luce was among the first tableware designers to be associated with the art deco movement; his creations could be found on the most sophisticated tables, including those on the chic ocean liner the S.S. Normandie. Carole Stupell is known to have carried this design as late as the early 1960s, indicating that a market continued to exist for high modernism well after the war.
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- Charles L. Venable, Ellen P. Denker, Katherine C. Grier, Stephen G. Harrison, China and Glass in America, 1880-1980: From Tabletop to TV Tray (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000), 432, cat. 55.
- DMA unpublished material, Label text [1999.37.1], transcribed 2017.
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From 1999: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above [1]
[1] See invoice in Collections Records Object File [1999.37.1-2]
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General Description
Square plates became a fashionable alternative to the more conventional round shape early in the 1930s, as designers sought to express a new vocabulary of geometrical forms inspired by the Machine Age. Difficult to produce without sagging corners or warped edges, these shapes were technologically and aesthetically challenging. Jean Luce was among the first tableware designers to be associated with the art deco movement; his creations could be found on the most sophisticated tables, including those on the chic ocean liner the S.S. Normandie. Carole Stupell is known to have carried this design as late as the early 1960s, indicating that a market continued to exist for high modernism well after the war.
Adapted from
- Charles L. Venable, Ellen P. Denker, Katherine C. Grier, Stephen G. Harrison, China and Glass in America, 1880-1980: From Tabletop to TV Tray (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000), 432, cat. 55.
- DMA unpublished material, Label text [1999.37.1], transcribed 2017.
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- updated provenance and geo x refs
- added China and Glass excerpt as a text entry in TMS
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 1999: Ensemble 20th Century Design, New York, New York
From 1999: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above [1]
[1] See invoice in Collections Records Object File [1999.37.1-2]
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