(Buenos Aires, 1902-1998) was a versatile artist, designer, and decorator, as well as a key figure in Argentine material culture due to her expertise in applied arts based on glass and textile design. Her pieces stand out for their decorative and practical elements.
The mastery shown in her watercolors and oil paintings captivated Alejandro Bustillo and Louis Fourvel Rigolleau, among many others.
Bustillo, the architect, hired her to produce pieces for the Llao Llao Hotel in Bariloche, while Rigolleau offered her the artistic direction of the glass section of his company, founded in 1882 and established in Berazategui.
Moyano was the artistic director of the Rigolleau glass factory from 1934 to 1962. During those 30 years, she unleashed her creativity on an industrial scale by designing for mass production and creating unique pieces based on drawing techniques, blown glass, and carving that used special pigments.
Starting in 1954, she designed fabrics for the firms Dandolo and Primi and El Espartano, while decorating iconic buildings – such as the Harrods store, the headquarters of the Argentine Rural Society, and the Plaza Hotel – with her unique style.
Her pieces, renowned in Europe and the United States, were exhibited at the 1937 Paris World's Fair, the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (1957), the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1959), and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington (1959).
The exhibition “Lucrecia Moyano, a life dedicated to glass and textiles” was presented in 1994 at the National Museum of Decorative Arts.
The IDA Foundation preserves and protects glass pieces and sketches of Moyano's textile designs, settings, and glass art in one of the least explored collections within the field of Argentine material culture.
