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[June 2002]
MoDA to Host Tile Design Retrospective
The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (Barnet, Herts, England) is to stage a new exhibition - Patterns for Post-War Britain: the Tile Designs of Peggy Angus - which will centre on the decorative wall tiles that Angus designed from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, which brought colour and pattern to homes and public buildings. Her designs embraced the optimism and modern design of the post-war years, through the use of bold, simplified and colourful geometric patterns. The exhibition will take place from 17 September 2002 until 5 January 2003.This is the first exhibition to look at Angus's design career and it includes many visually exciting examples of her work never previously exhibited. A MoDA spokesman commented: "Visitors will be inspired by her highly inventive pattern-making, which in the early 1950s set a new direction for modern tiling. Her geometric designs formed large-scale patterns that complemented the modern architecture dominant at this time".
Peggy Angus was commissioned by many of England's leading modernist architects, including F R S Yorke and Sir Frederick Gibberd, while Carter & Co of Poole, Dorset manufactured the tiles.
Patterns for Post-War Britain comprises over 150 objects. In addition to Angus's ceramic tiles, evocative black and white architectural photographs of the tiles in situ and contemporary Carter's tile catalogues are included. Peggy Angus (1904-1993) trained at the Royal College of Art and was one of its 1922 intake, now known as an 'outbreak of talent'.
For full details, e-mail: l.hoskins@mdx.ac.uk
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