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Article: Art nouveau at Sevres & the craftsman tradition in America: in the early 1900s, American writers and designers took a close interest in the remarkable art-nouveau designs that were being produced at Sevres. Gabriel P. Weisberg explores the impact of the firm's methods and achievements on American crafts.(Essay)
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When Gustav Stickley, editor of The Craftsman, one of the premier American magazine art magazines of its age, published an article entitled 'Latest Ceramic Products of Sevres' in January 1904, he helped to introduce contemporary Sevres ceramics and the large network of young designers who were creating them to a large public audience in America (Figs 3 and 4). (1) Sevres was a foremost centre for design reform; the manufactory was producing a version of art nouveau that, while stylised, remained extremely progressive. (2) Stickley hoped that its ceramics could influence American ceramicists as well as American collectors, equalling the ...
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