## e-Marketplace

Welcome to Mina Loy’s virtual storefront.

This marketplace aims to situate Loy’s created and invented objects all in one place. By placing these objects together in an online store, we wish to not only illustrate the range of Loy’s inventions, but also underscore that these products were once for sale. By reading the product descriptions and placing these items in your cart, we hope to emphasize that Loy was as much a business woman as she was an artist. Not only is placing objects in your cart an exercise in commerce, it is also an act of recovery; unfortunately many of Mina Loy’s lampshades and her objects no longer exist. By creating a virtual marketplace, we wish to preserve Loy’s legacy as an entrepreneur in a way that her brick and mortar storefront could not. The e-marketplace also attempts to recreate the pleasure of shopping, which is typically denigrated as feminine and exiled from the realm of scholarship.

Pricing is based on converting the 1926 French Franc to the 2018 U.S. Dollar (1 franc= $0.68 USD). We have priced the items using either historical record, or estimated cost (particularly for the designs never made and sold).

Images gathered here are drawn from the following collections:

- Mina Loy Papers. Beinecke Digital Collections. YCAL_MSS_6. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
- Carolyn Burke Collection on Mina Loy and Lee Miller. Yale Collection of American Literature. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

This material has been gathered for educational purposes according to fair use standards. If you are aware of any copyright violations or object to our use of any material, please contact suchurchill@davidson.edu.

To view your cart, return to the e-Marketplace homepage and your products will appear below. Although you can’t actually purchase the products, you can enjoy browsing and provide your own reviews based on your imaginary possession of the objects.

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## Plane Lamp

$1,370.00 Add to cart

## Glowing Lamp

$1,370.00 Add to cart

## Mappemonde (World Map)

$1,370.00 Add to cart

## Alphabet Blocks

$30.00 Add to cart

## Les Vagues

$1,370.00 Add to cart

## Hats

$200.00 Add to cart

## Blotter Bracelet

$100.00 Add to cart

## Corselet

$50.00 Add to cart

## Swan Lampshade

$1,370.00 Add to cart

## Les Poissons

$1,370.00 Add to cart

## Auto-Facial Construction

$30.00 Add to cart

## Frosted Glass Lampshade

$1,370.00 Add to cart

## Dress Material

$15.00 Add to cart

## Torque Broom

$30.00 Add to cart

## Calla Lilly Lamp

$1,370.00 Add to cart

## Les Bouteilles (Bottles)

$50.00 Add to cart

## Les Étoiles (The Stars)

$1,370.00 Add to cart

## Chatoyant

$60.00 Add to cart