April 12, 2024
CURWEN PAPERS Address Book ERIC RAVILIOUS Enid Marx BARNETT FREEDMAN
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CURWEN PATTERN PAPERS Large Desktop Address Book Featuring Designs by ERIC RAVILIOUS ENID MARX PAUL NASH and others This is a large and substantial address book, produced exclusively for the Tate Archive, which features over 30 pattern papers designed in the 1920s for the Curwen Press. The address book - which is new and unused - features full page designs by significant 20th Century artists such as Eric Ravilious, Paul Nash and Enid Marx. These pattern paper designs were commissioned in 1928 by The Curwen Press, who were an important patron for young artists like Ravilious, Edward Bawden and E. McKnight Kauffer, all of whom went on to design book illustrations, posters and pattern papers for Curwen and their customers. This hardbound address book (the boards are decorated with a pattern by Enid Marx) has a tabbed A-Z index. Each pattern paper is featured full page, usually situated facing the start of each alpabetical section. There are 30 designs in all. It is an elegant and practical book which is likely to become a future collectable and would make a rather smart gift. "In 1920, Harold Curwen purchased on sight a book full of paper designs by Claude Lovat Fraser, with the idea that the designs could be used within his Curwen Press, as endpapers and decorative bindings. In order to broaden the range, he encouraged new artists
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