GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Adorned with plastic handles, electric blue spheres, and chimney-like finials on the lids, this tea and coffee service brings to tea drinking the audacious forms and vibrant colors of postmodernist design of the 1980s. The architect Michael Graves designed this tea and coffee service as part of an initiative by the Italian company Alessi to promote the relationship between architecture and industrial design. Indeed, the block-like forms of this service loosely suggest the shapes of the Graves's architectural works such as the Public Service Building of Portland (1982).
Adapted from
Kevin Tucker, DMA unpublished material, 2006.
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Until 2006: Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY [1]
From 2006: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above
[1] See copy of check #12493 in Collections Records Object File 2006.11.1-6
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- Dezeen~Read about the Portland Municipal Services Building designed by Michael Graves.
- ArchDaily~See architectural drawings of the Portland Municipal Services Building, and read about its controversy.
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General Description
Adorned with plastic handles, electric blue spheres, and chimney-like finials on the lids, this tea and coffee service brings to tea drinking the audacious forms and vibrant colors of postmodernist design of the 1980s. The architect Michael Graves designed this tea and coffee service as part of an initiative by the Italian company Alessi to promote the relationship between architecture and industrial design. Indeed, the block-like forms of this service loosely suggest the shapes of the Graves's architectural works such as the Public Service Building of Portland (1982).
Adapted from
Kevin Tucker, DMA unpublished material, 2006.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
Notes
updated provenance and geo x refs
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 2006: Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY [1]
From 2006: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from above
[1] See copy of check #12493 in Collections Records Object File 2006.11.1-6
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