Word: marinot
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...earlier, less industrial age. While the style of the day was mechanical, some of its most gifted designers, particularly in the 1920s, were craftsmen who produced signed, custom-designed work for a luxury market. Many were French: Silversmith Jean Puiforcat, Furniture Designer Jacques Ruhlmann, Glassmakers Rene Lalique and Maurice Marinot. In the U.S., Henry Dreyfuss and Norman Bel Geddes designed costume jewelry, radio consoles and jukeboxes...
Steuben has been trying to stimulate in the U. S. a renascence in hand-made glass similar to that which in France has been led by the fanciful Rene Lalique and the sombrely imaginative Maurice Marinot, in Sweden by Simon Gate and Edvard Hald, in Vienna by Stefan Rath. If Steuben's best designs in time become collectors' pieces (Steuben is already included in the Metropolitan Museum's U. S. glass collection) credit will go largely to two designers...
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