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514 Broadway, the Prentice House, in Providence, where Anna and Laura Tirocchi had their dressmaking shop. Now known as the Wedding Cake House, it is a chic hotel. (Tirocchi Archive)Providence was once a world leader in textile manufacturing, including the design and manufacturing of machinery needed to produce clothing from the more or less raw material of textiles. As the city’s importance in this realm grew, civic leaders, including some from families associated with my former employer (the Providence Journal) founded the Rhode Island School of Design. It was originally tasked to introduce a higher level of aesthetic sensibility to the design of machinery and the products of that machinery, including ladies’ fashions.
Chart by Raymond Loewy. (RISD)Sadly, RISD has strayed from its mission. Perhaps predictably, its faculty and students have, so far as I can tell, largely bought into aesthetic philosophies that spurn tradition and its attention…
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Mark Atherton, Kazutomo Karasawa, Francis Leneghan (eds), Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature – Brepols, 2002 Looks interesting, but that price! Across three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national, and imperial identities and communities in early medieval England. Literary works in Old English and Latin are considered […]
Mark Atherton, Kazutomo Karasawa, Francis Leneghan (eds), Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature – Brepols, 2002 — Progressive Geographies
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