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Jack Lenor Larsen : a weaver's memoir / by Jack Lenor Larsen.
Fine Arts Library NK8998.L3 A2 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larsen, Jack Lenor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Larsen, Jack Lenor.
- Male weavers--United States--Biography.
- Male weavers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Other Title:
- Weaver's memoir
- Place of Publication:
- New York : H.N. Abrams, 1998.
- Summary:
- World-renowned textile designer and weaver Jack Lenor Larsen reflects on his extraordinary life and career in this beautifully illustrated memoir. A graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Larsen founded his own textile design company in 1953. Today, the Larsen name is synonymous with exquisite woven fabrics, epitomizing the point at which modernism, craft, and technology intersect.
- The entertaining account is a window into the postwar design scene in America, in which Larsen recalls in wry detail his numerous clients and famous collaborators, among them architects Edward Larrabee Barnes, Louis Kahn, and I. M. Pei. Trained as a weaver, Larsen is not only an innovative textile artist but also an accomplished gardener and garden designer, a tireless traveler, a patron of younger artists, and an avid and astute collector and supporter of traditional and contemporary crafts from around the world.
- The illustrations feature Larsen's incomparable fabrics; photographs of his commissions, homes, and superb collections; and snapshots of friends, clients, and mentors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 155) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0810935899
- OCLC:
- 38535944
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