The captivating biography of one of the most important designers of the twentieth century - adapted for Sky Cinema starring Phoebe Dynevor, Matthew Goode and David Morrissey

Clarice Cliff was one of the most prominent ceramic designers of the twentieth centuryBorn in 1899 in the Staffordshire Potteries, she started work as just another factory girl, but by 1928 had launched her own range of pottery, ‘Bizarre''. A ‘gargantuan feast of colour'', it blazed a trail through the homes of inter-war Britain.


But if Clarice Cliff''s rise from apprentice gilder to art director was remarkable - and all the more so for her being a woman - it was not without its tensions; for years she conducted a secret relationship with her married bossFusing art, design and industry and vividly conveying the texture of women''s lives between the wars, this is a compelling study of the complex, talented woman whose work is for many the epitome of art deco.



Format Häftad Omfång 336 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Utgivningsdatum 2022-01-05 ISBN 9781526654748