From Paris to Providence: Fashion, Art, and the Tirocchi Dressmakers' Shop, 1915-1947
2001; Oxford University Press; Volume: 88; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2700399
ISSN1945-2314
Autores Tópico(s)Crafts, Textile, and Design
ResumoTemporary exhibition, Jan. 12–April 8, 2001. 3,400 sq. ft. Susan Hay, curator and project director; Madelyn Shaw and Pamela Parmal, associate curators; Sarah Buie, designer; Carole Villucci, educator. Internet: objects from the exhibition, essays, resources for teachers, databases of clients and employees, correspondence, records of transactions, and measurements, A&L Tirocchi Dressmakers' Project (Sept. 20, 2001). In 1989 the textile department at the art museum of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) was contacted by Louis J. Cella Jr., a local doctor. The donation that unfolded from this initial query was to textile history what the recent discovery of Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex is to paleontology: an intellectual windfall whose rarity is surpassed only by its serendipity. During the first half of the twentieth century, Cella's mother, Laura, and aunt Anna ran a dressmaker's shop out of their home at 514 Broadway in Providence. In rooms on the second...
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