Exploring Luxury Scissors as Works of Art in the Early Modern World

BY CLAIRE SABITT Although scissors as tools appear at least as early as 2,000 BCE, the first evidence for luxury scissors dates to the late 15th century. By the 19th century, decorative scissors became more widespread, especially in England and France.

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Figure 1. Winterthur's library with a complete midcentury modern interior in 1967.

Figure 6. Space-filling exercise from Arthur Wesley Dow's textbook Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers (1899).

Figure 8. Architecture by George Howe and furnishings by Wharton Esherick, “Pennsylvania Hill House” interior, “America at Home” display, 1939–40 New York World's Fair.

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Joshua Johnson, John Jacob Anderson and Sons, John and Edward, c. 1812-1815. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund and Mary Smith Dorward Fund, 1993.82.

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Figure 4. Nos. 2073 and 2071 mimic the exterior façade patterns found in the Court of Myrtles in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain. Fischer & Jirouch, Catalog of Interior and Exterior Decorative Ornament

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A selection of deck chairs from (l-r) the Titanic, the Normandie, and the United States. The model is of the Berengaria, incorporating a lithographed cross-section of the ship's interiors. Courtesy, The Peabody