"Cold Rolled Steel / Double Triangles" Vase
In contrast to the sculptural and nonfunctional ceramics of the post-World War II studio craft movement, Rady took a more traditional approach in her work by producing utilitarian-like objects. She designed in a vocabulary of hard-edge geometric forms typical of late modernist design. Adding to the sense of austere modernism and the belief that “less is more,” in this vase the glaze approaches the texture of cold-rolled steel.
Artwork Details
- Title: "Cold Rolled Steel / Double Triangles" Vase
- Designer: Elsa Rady (American, New York 1943–2011 Culver City, California)
- Date: 1987
- Medium: Porcelain
- Dimensions: 9 5/8 × 9 in., 1.5 lb. (24.4 × 22.9 cm, 0.7 kg)
- Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
- Credit Line: Gift of Richard L. Schroeder, 1987
- Object Number: 1987.470
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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