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Lurelle Guild. Vacuum Cleaner, ca. 1937. Brooklyn Museum.

Lurelle Van Arsdale Guild (1898–1985) was an architect, industrial designer, and interior designer. Born in Syracuse, New York, Guild studied painting at Syracuse University, graduating in 1920. He initially worked as an illustrator and writer before founding Lurelle Guild Associates in 1928. In 1944, Guild became a founding member of the Society of Industrial Designers in New York.[1][2]

Guild's clients included Alcoa, Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company, Chase Brass & Copper Company, Electrolux, Heywood-Wakefield, International Silver Company, Kensington, Inc., Pullman Company, Revlon, and the Scranton Lace Company.[1]

Background

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Guild's designs are held in several museum collections. The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh includes Guild designs for Kensington, Inc., such as platters, a sugar bowl, teapot, coffeepot, milk jug, and pitcher.[3] The Marshall Johnson Collection of Cookware and Appliance Design Drawings at the Hagley Museum and Library in Greenville, Delaware, features drawings of Guild's Kensington Ware aluminum products (1922–1960).[4]

The Yale University Art Gallery's collection includes Guild designs, including a canape plate and wine cooler for Chase Brass & Copper Company, the "Stratford" bowl for Kensington, Inc., a "Regency" asparagus platter, "His Royal Highness" coffee service, and "Chatham" pattern pitcher for International Silver Company, and the "Wear-ever" kettle for the Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company.[1]

Guild's designs for International Silver Company are also included in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Minneapolis Institute of Art.[5] These works have been featured in exhibitions such as "American Modern, 1925–1940: Design for a New Age" (2001–02)[5] and "Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design" (2005–07).[6]

In 1934–35, Guild's designs for a cocktail shaker and vegetable dish were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[7]

Personal life

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Lurelle Guild married Anne Louise Eden in 1929; they had one daughter.[8][9]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Gordon, John Stuart. (2011). A modern world: American design from the Yale University Art Gallery 1920–1950), (pp. 109, 127, 232, 234, 237, 296, 299, 331, 410). Yale University Art Gallery and Yale University Press. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  2. ^ (Undated). Biographical history: Lurelle Guild. Lurelle Guild Papers. Syracuse University Libraries. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  3. ^ (Undated). Carnegie Museum of Art website. (Search "Lurelle Guild" in collection.) Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  4. ^ (Undated). Finding aid: Marshall Johnson Collection of Cookware and Appliance Design Drawings. Retrieved January 2, 2007.
  5. ^ a b (March 20, 2016). International Silver Company designs in collections, at auction, and in exhibitions. artdesigncafe.com. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  6. ^ Stern, Jewel. (2005). Modernism in American silver: 20th century design. Dallas Museum of Art and Yale University Press; retrieved January 2, 2007.
  7. ^ (Jan–Feb 1935). At Metropolitan Museum: Silverware executed by International Silver Co. in Contemporary American Industrial Art Exhibit (International Silver Co. newsletter), 3(4), pp. 6–7, artdesigncafe; accessed January 27, 2020.
  8. ^ "MISS CONDON BRIDE OF LESLIE H. PELL; Suffragan Bishop Shipman Performs the Ceremony in St.Bartholomew's Chapel.CONSTANCE NASH MARRIES Wed to Colonel David E. Sherlock,D.S.O., of British Army, in St. Agnes Church—Other Nuptials. Sherlock—Nash Pincus—Krug. Wener—Liebowitz. Jandorf—Hammel. Halpern—Silverman. Ransom—Bridger. Alling—Robbins. Houghton—Prichitt. Guild—Eden". The New York Times. 22 November 1929. p. 29 Col. 3. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  9. ^ Gordon, John Stuart (2013). Lurelle Guild's Historical Modernism: Americana and Industrial Design (PhD). Boston University. p. 32. hdl:2144/13133. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 April 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-01. An only child, Lurelle Guild grew up in this comfortable and socially active environment before enrolling at Syracuse University in 1916, where he studied painting. While at Syracuse, Guild met Ann Louise Eden, an art student in the class below him; on November 21, 1929, Eden and Guild wed at Stamford's First Presbyterian Church, in a service officiated by the Reverend George Stewart.

Further reading

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  • Martin Grief, Depression Modern: The Thirties Style in America, New York: Universe, 1975, pp. 60, 174–79. | ISBN 0876639252
  • Cat., J. Stewart Johnson, American Modern, 1925–1940, Design for a New Age, New York: Abrams, 2000. | ISBN 0810942089
  • "Guild, Lurelle Van Arsdale (1898–1985)". In Mel Byars, The Design Encyclopedia, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004, p. 219. | ISBN 0-87070-012-X
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