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George Paulding Farnham (American, 1859 to 1927), Tiffany Designer George Paulding Farnham studied in the studio of Tiffany’s chief designer, Edward C. Moore, and in 1885 became his assistant. His skill as a designer and sculptor was recognized by Moore and Charles Lewis Tiffany. At the age of 27 he was selected to create the Tiffany jewelry collection that would be sent to Paris for the Exposition Universelle of 1889. Farnham and Tiffany recieved [...] Click here to continue reading. Mildred G. Watkins (American, Ohio, 1883 to 1968) Mildred Watkins was one of the first of a generation of Ohio-based artists who, in turning their attention to the medium, elevated enameling to unprecedented levels of beauty and inventiveness. She started as a painter who sort of “fell into” enameling. She studied portraiture at the Cleveland School of Art, but was not fond of laboring over her paintings, saying that “anything she did after the [...] Click here to continue reading. Kalo Shop The Arts & Crafts metalcrafter Kalo Shop was in operation form 1900 to 1970 and was a significant producer of 20th-century hand-wrought silver. It was started by Clara P. Barck and five other women in Park Ridge, Illinois. The company moved to Chicago in 1914. Though they tried, unsuccessfully, to open a retail store in New York, they never retailed their wares in department stores, instead selling directly to the consumers. The [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863) Harvard-educated Robert Shaw, son of a prominent Boston abolitionist family, was serving as a captain in the 2nd Massachusetts when he was tapped by Governor John Andrew to command the first regiment of black troops organized in a Northern state. Shaw went about the organization of his 54th Massachusetts recruiting free blacks from all over New England and some from beyond. The regiment was mustered into service on May 13, [...] Click here to continue reading. Jugendstil Movement In the late 19th century there was an artistic Renaissance in southern Germany, led by the artists and designers of the Jugendstil movement in the area around Munich. While Jugendstil artists like Arnold Bocklin are often thrown in with the French Art Nouveau artists of the same period, their art was stylistically original and focused on Germanic themes and mythology. The term “Jugendstil” originated in 1896, when it was published in the [...] Click here to continue reading. Monteith – Definition A monteith is a large bowl with a scalloped rim so that six or eight wine glasses may be suspended by the foot, allowing the bowl of each to be chilled by the immersion in iced water before use. (The name, according to 17th-century diarist Anthony Wood, derives from the Scotsman “Monteith” who, at Oxford, during the reign of Charles II, adopted the affectation of wearing a cloak with a scalloped [...] Click here to continue reading. Maria Regnier, American Silversmith (1901 to 1994) The work of noted St. Louis silversmith Maria Regnier is marked by its sleek simplicity emphasizing the beauty and luster of the material itself rather than its adornment. Her distinctive geometric designs have been exhibited at museums in Boston, Chicago, New York and St. Louis. Born in 1901 in Hungary Maria moved to the United States in 1921 following her passion for silver and metalworking early in [...] Click here to continue reading. The Wiener Werkstatte The Austrian equivalent of the English Arts and Crafts Movement, the Wiener Werkstatte [VEEN-er VEHRK-shtet-teh] (German for “Vienna Workshop”) was a direct offshoot from the fin-de-siacle Vienna Secession. Together, Josef Hoffmann (1870 to 1956) and Koloman Moser founded the Wiener Werkstatte Produktiv-Gemeinschaft von Kunsthandwerken, Wien (the Viennese Workshop and Production Cooperative of Art Works in Vienna) in 1903 as an association of artists and craftspeople working together to manufacture fashionable household [...] Click here to continue reading. William Gould, 18th Century London Silversmith William Gould was apprenticed to his silversmith father James in 1723 and obtained his freedom in 1733, made a Liveryman in 1746 and resigned in 1763. Vesta Cases These pocket-sized cases for carrying matches took their name from ‘Vesta’, the Roman Goddess of the hearth and home. A ‘match’ was known as a ‘vesta’ up until the twentieth century when ‘match’ became the favoured term. It was essential to carry the vestas in a case as they were highly flammable and needed to be kept dry. The inside of the case would often be gilded to protect the silver from [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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