Dresser, Christopher
Dresser, Christopher (1834–1904). Glasgow-born, one of the most distinguished and inventive industrial designers of C19. His publications include Botany as Adapted to the Arts and Art Manufactures (1857–8), The Art of Decorative Design (1862), The Principles of Decorative Design (1873), Japan, its Architecture, Art, and Art Manufactures (1882), and Modern Ornamentation (1886). Many of his designs for incised ornament and cast-iron artefacts were widely copied. He was profoundly influenced by the natural world, by A. W. N. Pugin, by Owen Jones, and by Japanese artefacts.
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Dennis & and Jesse (1972);
Dresser (1862, 1873, 1882);
Durant (1993;
Halen (1993);
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004);
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