Page of Pattern Book of Balthasar Sylvius Flanders,1500s

pattern books, division of design and production,

growing spread of information and easily reproduced design

Interior of the Gobelins Factory,

engraving from Diderot’s Encyclopedia, 1770

Consider:  Why is this image and what it depicts significant?

Monarchical role in luxury production, Gobelins established 1662, King Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun,

constant innovation & development, cartoon

Meissen porcelain (near Dresden, Germany), 18th century

Monarchical role in luxury production,

1st European hard-paste porcelain,

founded early 18th century (1708-1710)

the first produced  outside China

Boulton Tea Urn, 18th century

Matthew Boulton  (b. 1728- d. 1809), Industrial Revolution,

revolutionizes metal industry, streamlined production,

separating design & production, James Watt steam engine,

Sheffield Plate, pattern book

Wedgwood creamware dinnerware, 1770s

Wedgwood’s “Useful Ware,” popularized by Queen of England’s purchase of a dinnerware set in 1765.

Consider:  What was Wedgewood’s contribution to modernization of ceramic production in terms of process and marketing?

Artist John Flaxman’s design for Wedgwood production

Apotheosis of Homer, 1778, Jasperware stoneware

Neoclassicism (late 18th-early 19th century), Wedgwood’s employment of important artists, cultivation of fashionable interest in ancient antiquity

The King’s Roman typography, 1692

Louis XIV

Modern and standardized typeface

Pattern Book

 A way of dividing design and production, a way to spread information to different designers and easily produced design.

The designs could be applied to different objects as well making them not specific to one object.

Pattern Book of Balthasar Sylvius, Flanders, 1550s - A publication that can be referenced by different designers, designs in book were not intended for one object specifically.

Cartoons

a series of drawings that tell a story

a preparatory design, drawing, or painting.  

Oil painting in which a tapestrys design was based upon. 

Sheffield plate

is a layered combination of silver and copper that was used for many years to produce a wide range of household articles.

These included buttons, serving utensils, candlesticks and other lighting devices, coffee and tea sets, serving dishes and trays.

Almost every article made in sterling silver was also crafted by Sheffield makers, who used this manufacturing process to produce nearly identical wares at far less cost.

Meissen porcelain

(near Dresden, Germany)

18^th century. Monarchical role in luxury production

1st European hard-paste porcelain, founded early 18^th century (1708-1710)

the first produced  outside China.

The Independent Group

The IG consisted of painters, sculptors, architects, writers and critics who wanted to challenge prevailing modernist approaches to culture.

They introduced mass culture into debates about high culture, re-evaluated modernism and created the "as found" or "found object" aesthetic.

They are recognized for “This is Tomorrow” an exhibition from 1956

Members included Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton,Lawrence Alloway