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Associated Artists
The remarkable social reformer and interior designer Candace Wheeler is the subject of an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City through January 6, 2002 (see The Magazine ANTIQUES for October 2001, pp. 400, 402). A walk through this stunning show makes one want to race home, toss out everything, and redecorate. An excellent place to start would be with the fine reproduction wallpapers and textiles, after originals by Wheeler, that are being manufactured by the firm J. R. Burrows and Company of Rockland, Massachusetts.
The extremely successful interior decorating firm of Louis C. Tiffany and Company Associated Artists included Wheeler, Tiffany, Samuel Colman, and Lockwood de Forest. One of its most significant decorating jobs was the hall and principal ground-floor rooms in Mark Twain's nineteen-room house in Hartford, Connecticut (now the Mark Twain Memorial). The 1881 commission succeeded in transforming the dark ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Design notes.(Brief Article)