Abbott Miller (American, born 1963), Designer
Pentagram (English, founded 1972), Design Firm
Manufactured by KnollTextiles
Knoll Wallcoverings Series from the Grammar Collection: Filter, Merge and Switch Patterns
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Abbott Miller (American, born 1963), Designer
Pentagram (English, founded 1972), Design Firm
Manufactured by KnollTextiles2006
Knoll Wallcoverings Series from the Grammar Collection: Filter, Merge and Switch Patterns
Abbott Miller (American, born 1963), Designer Pentagram (English, founded 1972), Design Firm Manufactured by KnollTextiles →21st Centurydesign
Date
2006
Medium
Vinyl and cotton
Dimensions
W.: 137 cm (54 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Abbott Miller
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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