Curtain Panel, possibly Les Giroflées
- Date
- c.1923
- Material
- Printed cotton with metal hardware
- Classification
- Coverings & hangings, textiles
- Collection
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 105 × 46 in. (266.7 × 116.8 cm)
- Credit Line
- Richard Brumbaugh Trust in memory of Richard Irving Brumbaugh and Grace Lischer Brumbaugh
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 26:2016
NOTES
Splashed with abstract flowers, this cotton textile brims with the impossible promise of an everlasting summer. French fashion designer Paul Poiret visited the Wiener Werkstätte in 1911, buying yards of fabric for use in his own designs. The king of Parisian fashion was especially drawn to the firm’s folk aesthetic, capturing the self-conscious naivety of its colorful floral patterns in his interiors branch, Martine. By the 1920s and ‘30s, popular Parisian women’s magazines were promoting “peasant styles” translated by couturiers like Chanel, who followed Poiret’s early lead.
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