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Focus

Wallpaper
1966-67 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Shand Kydd Ltd. (manufacturer)
Angerer, Mea (designer)
Place of origin
England (made)

Specimen of 'Maze' vinyl wallpaper; Colour print on paper.

Within a pattern book containing 151 specimens (E.1719-1869-1980), including different colourways, each with designer's name, name of pattern, serial number etc in letterpress on the back; a few sheets interleaved with photographs of the papers in contemporary settings.


Object details

Categories
Wall Coverings
Prints
Object type
Wallpaper
Titles
  • Focus (series title)
  • Maze (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Colour print on paper
Paper
Printing
Brief description
Specimen of 'Maze' vinyl wallpaper; Design by Mea Angerer; Colour print on paper; Within a pattern book containing 151 specimens (E.1719-1869-1980); Produced by Shand Kydd Ltd.; England; 1966-67.
Physical description
Specimen of 'Maze' vinyl wallpaper; Colour print on paper.

Within a pattern book containing 151 specimens (E.1719-1869-1980), including different colourways, each with designer's name, name of pattern, serial number etc in letterpress on the back; a few sheets interleaved with photographs of the papers in contemporary settings.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 40cm
  • Size of volume width: 50.5cm
Dimensions from: Oman, Charles C., and Hamilton, Jean. Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982.
Marks and inscriptions
(Designer’s name, name of pattern, serial number etc in letterpress on the back.)
Credit line
Given by Shand Kydd Ltd
Object history
Given by Shand Kydd Ltd.
Associated object
E.1763-1980
Bibliographic references
  • Oman, Charles C., and Hamilton, Jean. Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982.
  • Hayes Marshall, Herbert George. British Textile Designers Today. Leigh-on-Sea, England: F. Lewis (Publishers) Limited, 1939 pp. 48-51, includes three black white photographs of designs Mea Angerer, N.R.D. 22 Greville Place, London, N.W.6. Mea Angerer is a member of the National Register of Designers. Trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, she was a pupil of Professor Josef Hoffmann, and still believes in the chief maxims of this famous teacher – “contemporary design for a modern world” and “we should learn from our predecessors, but not copy them.” While still at Art School, Mea Angerer had several designs reproduced by the Wiener Werkstatte – that workshop of exclusive modern decoration with an international reputation, which unhappily ceased to exist some years ago. She also sold designs to France, Germany, Switzerland and the United States. Mea Angerer came to England in 1928 to work with Messrs. Eton Rural Fabrics, on whose staff she was for eighteen months. Except for a short break, while she was working with an advertising agency, she has been a free-lance designer ever since. Although interested in other branches of designing for interior decoration and reproduction, textile designing has always held the favourite place among her occupations.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1765-1980

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Record createdMay 19, 2009
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