1. Lucienne Day was active in other fields, such as wallpapers, ceramics and carpets.
17 Facts About Lucienne Day
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At the age of 17 Lucienne Day enrolled at Croydon School of Art, where she developed her interest in printed textiles.
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Lucienne Day went on to specialise in this field at the Royal College of Art, where she studied from 1937 to 1940.
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In March 1940, during her final year at the RCA, Lucienne met her future husband, furniture designer Robin Day, who shared her enthusiasm for modern design.
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Lucienne Day transformed the interiors into a model of 'Contemporary' design and the house was featured in several magazines.
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Five years after teaching Lucienne Day began focusing on her works with printed fabrics and wallpaper designs.
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At this date Lucienne Day's textiles were characterised by energetic rhythms and a spidery, doodle-like graphic style.
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Lucienne Day began working with abstract designs in textiles and helped popularize this textile style in England.
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Lucienne Day renewed her earlier associations with Edinburgh Weavers and Cavendish Textiles.
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Lucienne Day designed a series of tableware patterns for Rosenthal from 1957 onwards and later joined the panel of international artists who oversaw Rosenthal's Studio Line.
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In 1975 Lucienne Day decided to withdraw from industrial design.
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Lucienne Day died on 30 January 2010 at the age of 93.
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Lucienne Day's third came in 1968 for her Chrevron furnishing fabric for Heal Fabrics.
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However, although abstraction was the dominant idiom in her work, Lucienne Day perpetuated the English tradition of patterns based on plant forms, often incorporating stylised motifs derived from nature, such as leaves, flowers, twigs and seedpods.
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Lucienne Day's work is held in many public collections, but the two principal repositories are The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, where selected archive material is held in the Archive of Art and Design.
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The Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation, established by the designers' daughter Paula Day in 2012, provides educational information about the Days through events and publications, including a website.
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Current licencees of Lucienne Day's designs include Classic Textiles, twentytwentyone, John Lewis, Bookroom Art Press, 1882 Ltd and Alternative Flooring.