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EXHIBITION

Every Pretty Leaf: Selections from the Gorham Design Library is a companion exhibit to the RISD Museum’s Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance 1850–1970 on view May 3 - December 1, 2019. The exhibit also includes items from the Library’s Reed & Barton Collection. 

Gorham Manufacturing Company was founded in 1831 in Providence, RI.  Starting with making spoons with coin silver it grew to a leader in the American silver industry.  John Gorham, whose father founded the company, traveled in Europe in the 1850s and began buying the books and periodicals that founded the Gorham Design Library.  The Design Library served as inspiration for Gorham’s designers until 2005 when the Lenox Company donated the collection the Fleet Library at RISD. The collection consists of hundreds of books on design, architecture, fine and decorative arts.


GORHAM SILVER
DESIGNING BRILLIANCE 
1850-1970
 
Exhibition catalog available for purchase online and at the risd:works Museum Store.


A survey of America's preeminent maker of fine silver and its legacy of exceptional design and innovation in the decorative arts.
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