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Metalwork in the aesthetic taste.(Current and coming)
The use of several different kinds of metal to create furniture and household accessories was fully investigated by designers and manufacturers at the end of the nineteenth century as part of the so-called aesthetic movement. Brass (a fusion of copper and zinc) was most commonly used, but bronze (copper and tin), or an amalgam of brass, copper, German silver (copper, nickel, and zinc), or of alloys that were plated with silver, gold, or copper, were also used to fashion distinctive objects. The subject was recently explored in an exhibition, and in its accompanying catalogue written by Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio, at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York, in 2005-2006. The show was a major success, but many people lamented that they were unable to get to Utica to see it. Happily, this summer they will have a second chance because the exhibition has been reassembled and is on view through October 14 at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture in New York City. Entitled A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement, it presents approximately seventy-five pieces of brass and mixed-metal furniture (small tables, mirrors, hanging shelves, and easels) as well as lighting devices (lamps, chandeliers, sconces, candelabra, and candlesticks), andirons and other pieces of fireplace equipment (screens and fenders), door hardware, and clocks. In their day, these pieces were called "art brass" or "artistic bronze goods" by their manufacturers.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Metalwork in the aesthetic taste.(Current and coming)