Christopher To draw up

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Christopher To draw up , born the July 4th 1834 with Glasgow Scotland - died the November 24th 1904 with Mulhouse, Alsace, France, is, with William Morris, one of the Designer S the most important British of the time victorienne. Its creations cover most of decorative arts: tapestry, textile, furniture, objects out of metal, glass, wood, wallpapers, ceramic.

Contrary to the mode of the time, then with the creed of the Art nouveau, Dresser created functional objects whose innovation of form and utility, and not complexity of the ornamentations, constituted the esthetic success, which led it to reject the superfluous decorative reasons. This tendency to diagram is in particular very visible in its objects out of metal and its creations out of glass and metal. It is certainly this “utilitarian” approach, this research of the diagram in the form, which led it to accept and seek the industrial production of its creations in collaboration vec at least about thirty British firms (in particular the companies Elkington & Company, the Old Hall Earthenware Company, the Coalbrookdale Company, J.W.& C. Ward, Hukin & Heath, William Ault' S, Benham and Froud, William Couper, Heath & Middleton, WW. Harrison & Co, Deakin & Moore…), which opposes it to William Morris and to the members of the Movement of Arts and Artisanats (Arts & Crafts Movement) as with holding of the Movement estethic (Esthetic Movement) which considered that esthetics and industrialization were opposed.

Draftsman, it was trained as from 1847 at the Governmental School of Design of London created in order to improve quality of the British production. Botanical doctor in , speciality of which he was professor until 1868, Dresser started to exert the design through the botanical illustration. He published in 1857 a communication with the Royal Institut on the relations of Science and Decorative Art, treating application of the natural laws with artistic creation. It is the beginning of a rather long theoretical and practical bibliography on the design. Influenced by Owen Jones, his design of the design like a “purely mental” art, i.e. abstract, pushes it to place its discipline among major arts, above same the pictorial art, still been subject to the rules of the figuration.

If the carpets and tapestries To draw up decorate botanical reasons, it uses the latter only with partimonie and solely when the reason modifies the gasoline of the object, which is hardly in the tastes of its time, very prolix in foliages and purely decorative floral reasons. These reasons appear besides little in its objects out of metal and glass. It is advisable nevertheless to moderate certain remarks making Draw up the immediate precursor of the Bauhaus, because if the objects out of metal To draw up most often presented and reproduced at this beginning of 21e century have an aspect indeed smoothes very near to esthetics dominant to the 20th century, its graphic designs, and its work out of ceramics and coloured glass, although very impressive, have a more “dated” aspect.

It was initiated with Japanese decorative art via the collection of Sir Rutherford Alcock, shown with the World Fair of 1862. He visited the Japan during four months during 1877. Japanese art and more particularly the principles of simplicity and utility of Shintoïsme, represent certainly an indisputable influence on its creation of utility objects. To draw up was thereafter a recognized importer of Japanese decorative objects.

Certain silver objects created by Christopher Dresser could be seen at the sides of works of other British designers of 19th and 20th centuries, such Charles Robert Ashbee, Edward Spencer, Oliver Baker, Omar Ramsden, Alwin Carr and Arthur Lasenby Liberty, in an exposure of the Museum of the Design of Ghent, Belgium: Een persoonlijke stempel; De Seawolf-collectie: een verzameling 19de in 20ste-eeuws zilver, from July 11th to September 28th, 2003.

An important iconography, in particular of the services with drink To draw up and other small objects out of glass and metal is available, and certain original models To draw up were taken again and adapted by the Italian firm Alessi, Photo.

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