Tile
ca. 1903 (designed)
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The architect and industrial designer Peter Behrens produced a number of tile designs for Villeroy and Boch. Designed following Behrens’ appointment as director of the Kunstgewerbeschule in Düsseldorf in 1903, their taut geometrical patterns represent a move away from Art Nouveau towards a new vocabulary of precise abstract forms.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Stoneware, inlaid |
| Brief description | Tile, inlaid in blue, designed by Peter Behrens, Villeroy & Boch, Mettlach, Germany, ca. 1903 |
| Physical description | Square stoneware tile, with surface layer of fine buff clay over a coarser body. Inlaid with a design in blue clay. One corner of the tile decorated with a concentric spiral pattern in buff and blue, the remainer of the tile buff edged with a blue line. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | unmarked |
| Object history | Tiles of this design were used in Peter Behrens' scheme for the Jungbrunnen restaurant at the Kunst-und- Gartenbau-Ausstellung held in Düsseldorf in 1904. |
| Summary | The architect and industrial designer Peter Behrens produced a number of tile designs for Villeroy and Boch. Designed following Behrens’ appointment as director of the Kunstgewerbeschule in Düsseldorf in 1903, their taut geometrical patterns represent a move away from Art Nouveau towards a new vocabulary of precise abstract forms. |
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| Accession number | C.25-1998 |
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| Record created | March 4, 2004 |
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