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The Textile Museum in DC has an amazing exhibit running right now, if you are a fan of mid-20th century textile designs--Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain. It features the work of three designers--Lucienne Day, Jacqueline Groag, and Marian Mahler.
The textiles are all exhibited in lengths of yardage hung as artworks, and often exhibited alongside furniture and furnishing designs of the time, or with period magazine features on the artists. Many are hung in such a way that you can get both an extremely close view of the print and weave, as well as a distance view of the large interior design prints. Most fascinating, i thought, was the clear aesthetic path Groag took from her early days at the Vienna Werkstatte to her print designs of midcentury. A great exhibit for fans of the set-dressing on Mad Men! On view through Sept 12, 2010.
I enjoyed it, as a fan of that mid-century graphical aesthetic typified in companies like Marimekko, but i'm really looking forward to the next exhibit forthcoming in the Museum's color series--I saw the catalogue for Red, made a special trip to see Blue, and the next one coming in April 2011 is Green, my favorite color! I'll definitely be back up for that next year...
The textiles are all exhibited in lengths of yardage hung as artworks, and often exhibited alongside furniture and furnishing designs of the time, or with period magazine features on the artists. Many are hung in such a way that you can get both an extremely close view of the print and weave, as well as a distance view of the large interior design prints. Most fascinating, i thought, was the clear aesthetic path Groag took from her early days at the Vienna Werkstatte to her print designs of midcentury. A great exhibit for fans of the set-dressing on Mad Men! On view through Sept 12, 2010.
I enjoyed it, as a fan of that mid-century graphical aesthetic typified in companies like Marimekko, but i'm really looking forward to the next exhibit forthcoming in the Museum's color series--I saw the catalogue for Red, made a special trip to see Blue, and the next one coming in April 2011 is Green, my favorite color! I'll definitely be back up for that next year...
