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Four modern riffs on one historic design
Prairie School Style
“2 Buttress,” “Kiss,” and “Rocket” vases were originally produced between 1899 and 1920 by the American Terra Cotta & Ceramics Company of Terra Cotta, Illinois. The vases pictured above are
accurate reproductions by Teco Art Pottery Collection.
The Basics: The great Arts & Crafts decorative arts movement manifested itself in the United States in two camps: the hard-lined, hand-crafted Mission style and the more relaxed, organically stylized Prairie School, which was championed by such architects and designers as Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Big Idea: The looks are unique, but both schools—Prairie and Mission—share the philosophy reiterated by the designer Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin: “The character of the living and working environment molds the character of the individual.” Prairie Patterns: Low, hipped rooflines, overhanging eaves, tall-backed chairs with narrow vertical spindles, and repeated, abstracted plant motifs, such as a wall stencil of undulating ferns.
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