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Mathilde Elisabeth “Lis” Ahlmann (April 13, 1894 – January 15, 1979) was a Danish weaver and textile designer who was one of the founders of modern Danish textile art and influential in the development of the style known as Danish modern. Born in Aarhus, Denmark, she trained with weaving master Gerda Henning, completing her apprenticeship in 1929. She also studied painting with Harad Giersing and worked for a time as a china painter for Kähler Keramik. She traveled around Europe for further studies. She opened her own workshop in 1934, and during that decade worked with furniture designer Kaare Klint, most notably designing the hand-woven fabrics for his famous Circle Bed (Kugleseng). By 1938 she had begun to exhibit her textiles, and she became known for a strongly geometric style featuring stripes and checks, initially in earth tones. Drawing on both traditional Danish folk patterns and Bauhaus ideas, her work in this decade with fabrics designed to complement furniture helped to shape the style now known as Danish modern. During World War II, she worked with Børge Mogensen to create fabrics for his new line of mass-produced beechwood furniture inspired by Shaker designs. This collaboration marked a shift in her production towards industrially produced designs as the scale of production exceeded what was possible with hand-woven textiles. She continued to work with Morgensen, and her palette of muted colors and grays became brighter, complementing the oak that was his preferred material after the war..
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Ahlmann, Lis. – Mogensen, Thomas: Lis Ahlmann Tekstiler
Copenhagen: Christian Ejlers, 1974. Small 8vo, original blue clothed hardcover with slightly edgeworn, now prtotected dustjacket. 71 pages, illustrated richly in bw and color. Very good copy
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Richly illustrated book on underground magazines and counter culture ephemera. Published by Spector Books, Leipzig 2020 (2015) and edited by Jan-Frederik Bandel, Annette Gilbert and Tania Prill. Oversized large book in printed wrappers, ringbound. 368 pages, illustrated in color throughout. Text by in English. New copy.
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First edition attractive copy of FORM – Eine Bilanz uber die Formentwicklung um die Mitte des XX. Jahrhunderts / A Balance Sheet of Mid-Twentieth-Century Trends in Design / Un Bilan de l’Evolution de la Forme au Milieu du XXe Siecle. 168 pp. Illustrated. Text in German, English and French
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Paul Gadegaard Herning Kunstmuseum 1982. Angligården & Herning Kunstmuseum, 1982. 8vo i original heftet omslag. 40 pp. Hft.
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“Absolutely lovely children’s illustrated book – pure joy, also for grown-ups”: The story of a young boy who lives in Reboul, France, who dreams of going to Paris. One day, after reading a book about Paris, he decides to pack a lunch and head for the city (…) What Henri sees, we see, in a flowing panorama of pictures conceived by the eminent graphic designer Saul Bass.
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