About this artwork
The employment of repetitive figurative characteristics to produce abstractions has led to a new genre and, indeed, a new market for contemporary wallpaper. Abbott Miller’s Merge graphic wallpaper from his Grammar Collection for Knoll Textiles is a perfect example of a design in which abstraction is achieved by multiplying essential elements of the given subject matter. A partner in the Pentagram studio in New York, Miller is known for his early writings on typography with Ellen Lupton. In Merge, overlapping typographic forms produce a density and opacity between the letters that barely reveal their origins. From a distance, depending on the color of the typographic composition (which is always set against a white background), the wallpaper reads as either a monochromatic surface or a lacy tracery.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Architecture and Design
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Artist
- Abbott Miller
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Title
- Knoll Wallcoverings Series from the Grammar Collection: Filter, Merge and Switch Patterns
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 2006
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Medium
- Vinyl and cotton
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Dimensions
- W.: 137 cm (54 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Abbott Miller
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Reference Number
- 2006.293.1-3
Extended information about this artwork
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