Toast rack 1879 Christopher Dresser This sophisticated toast rack is one of several simplistic yet inventive racks produced by the Sheffield firm of Dixon and Sons’ to the designs of Christopher Dresser. The versatile Dresser sold thirty-seven designs for household objects to the firm between 1879 and 1882, but not all of them materialized. The boldness of Dresser’s design for Dixon afforded him the appreciation as a proto-modernist. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #418. Christopher Dresser and the Birth of Industrial Design Supported by Bloomberg Philant
Toast rack 1879 Christopher Dresser This sophisticated toast rack is one of several simplistic yet inventive racks produced by the Sheffield firm of Dixon and Sons’ to the designs of Christopher Dresser. The versatile Dresser sold thirty-seven designs for household objects to the firm between 1879 and 1882, but not all of them materialized. The boldness of Dresser’s design for Dixon afforded him the appreciation as a proto-modernist. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #418. Christopher Dresser and the Birth of Industrial Design Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies We're sorry, the transcript for this audio track is not available at this time. We are working to make it available as soon as Toast rack. British, Sheffield. 1879. Silver plate. Metalwork-Silverplate
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