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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Almost in like new condition but very very slight tan to page edges. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> When Enid Marx [1902-1998] was made a Royal Designer for Industry [RDI] in 1944 her contribution to design was termed pattern maker an attribute given to no other RDI either before or since. It is possible that the term ‘pattern maker’ was coined especially for Marx for it was certainly more suited to her than any other designer of the time. Whatever the material she was working with-textiles paper or plastic-whatever project she was working on-designing textiles for London Underground book jackets for Chatto Windus or postage stamps for the Royal Mail – not only was herttern making extraordinarily versatile and prolific but its aptness for purpose and its popularity led to some of her designs having an unusual longevity. Her London Transport textiles were in use for some thirty years while her Chatto & Windus A Book of Nursery Rhymes went into repeated editions without change for some forty years. Enid Marx or Marco as she came to be known to family and friends was from a privileged background; not only was it comfortably middle class but it provided her with an upbringing that stimulated and encouraged creativity Her father Robert J Marx was a consultant engineer for paper-making machinery-a pioneer in his own right with some fifty patents to his credit Factories and manufacturing had a positive influence even though Marco was at first only involved with hand worked patterning She later acknowledged that her father’s work inspired much of her own and it certainly enforced her appreciation of manufacturing as essential for the ‘democratisation’ of good design. Her family background enabled Marco to move freely across social classes- whether she was selling her hand blocked fabrics in the upper class bonatiques of Mayfair and Kensington or trying out experimental approaches with textile sechusians in factories (LL)