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FuturLiberty

Liberty Fabrics and the Avant-Garde
By Richard Cork and Ester Coen
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FuturLiberty by Richard Cork and Ester Coen delves into the impact of Futurist art on modern design and aesthetics, particularly focusing on Liberty's vibrant textiles and rich patterns. Bridging past and present, the book explores how the radical visions of the Futurist movement continue to influence and inspire today's artistic culture. Through vivid images and insightful commentary, it showcases an engaging intersection between art and modernity.
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Format: Hardback
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FuturLiberty offers a unique exploration of the close relationship between art and design, showcased through the historic and contemporary fabric designs of Liberty, where avant-garde art has influenced the colourful, geometric collections for more than half a century.

Liberty is renowned internationally for its fabrics, especially its floral patterns, but it also has a long history of developing bold, geometric designs. Many of these have been inspired by early 20th-century avant-garde art, notably by the Italian Futurists—by artists such as Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni—and their English contemporaries, the Vorticists, including Christopher Nevinson and Edward Wadsworth.

In anticipation of Liberty's 150th anniversary, esteemed couturier and interior designer Federico Forquet has curated a striking new range of fabrics—the FuturLiberty Collection—that carries Liberty's creative heritage into our own age.

The Futurist and Vorticist art that lies behind the new designs is explored by specialists Ester Coen and Richard Cork, while archivist Anna Buruma examines Liberty's rich history of avant-garde designs. By illuminating the process by which the FuturLiberty Collection came into being, this highly visual study also reveals how art can inform design, making it contemporary, relevant, and engaging.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500026717

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: 300 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Federico Forquet
  • Preface by Gianfranco Maraniello
  • Preface by Tommaso Sacchi
  • Text by Anna Buruma
  • Text by Mary-Ann Dunkley
  • Interviewer Andrea Petochi
  • Interviewee Federico Forquet

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 285.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 1200g

Pages: 160

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Arts & Culture Ester Coen Non-Fiction Richard Cork

About the Author

Ester Coen is an expert on Italian Futurism and the international avant-garde. She has been Associate Professor at the University of Florence and Professor at the universities of Udine and L'Aquila. Richard Cork is an art historian, critic, curator and broadcaster. He has been an art critic for the Evening Standard, The Listener, The Times and the New Statesman, and is a past Turner Prize judge.

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