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Design

1988 (Designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

An A3-sized sheet of white paper which is folded in the middle with two tiers of designs, on attached cutouts, for women's lingerie. There are titles on or beside each design printed in a curving line on a curving, cutout attached to the supporting sheet of paper. There is an additional sheet of paper atached in the bottom right quarter which lists titles of lingerie and the contact name and telephone number of the Antoni & Alison firm.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
pen and ink drawing, printing and collage on paper support
Brief description
Design by Antoni and Alison
Physical description
An A3-sized sheet of white paper which is folded in the middle with two tiers of designs, on attached cutouts, for women's lingerie. There are titles on or beside each design printed in a curving line on a curving, cutout attached to the supporting sheet of paper. There is an additional sheet of paper atached in the bottom right quarter which lists titles of lingerie and the contact name and telephone number of the Antoni & Alison firm.
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.6cm
  • Width: 41.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
' T-SHIRTS. / DRAWERS. / CORSET DRAWERS. / MINI CORSET DRAWERS. / BRA TOPS. / WOMENS VESTS. / STRETCH PETTICOATS. / LOUNGE T-SHIRTS. / LONG SLEEVE T-SHIRTS. / CURVEY KNICKERS / FAIRY PETTICOATS / WENCH VESTS. / CURVEY HALF SLIPS. / BIG PETTICOATS. / SEXY PETTICOATS. / SILK SCARVES. / HANKIES. / MENS VESTS. / MENS TRUNKS. ' / FOR PRICES AND MORE INFORMATION- / CONTACT ANTONI & ALISON / 01 403 7313' (Textual information; front; printing; ink)
Production
'Be Beautiful', second collection by Antoni & Alison, was designed in March 1988 for Autumn/Winter 1988. Each design and production stage was done by hand at this date. The clothes were screen-printed by hand using screens made by Antoni Burakowski.
Collection
Accession number
E.634-1997

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Record createdSeptember 30, 2002
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