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New Day Cafe: Celebrity Weaver Dorothy Liebes [1]
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Date: 2023-07-06
The Cooper Hewitt has an exhibition on weaver Dorothy Liebes, who through her innovative collaborations became something of a celebrity during her day, at least in design world terms.
From the Cooper Hewitt website: www.cooperhewitt.org/…
“Liebes had unparalleled influence on what modern design in America meant through her work as a designer, consultant, educator and mentor,” Winton said. “We are thrilled to share the full spectrum of her achievements with new audiences and to add her contributions back into the history of 20th-century design.”
From the 1930s through the 1960s, Liebes collaborated with some of the most prominent architects and designers of the time, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Dreyfuss, Donald Deskey, Raymond Loewy and Samuel Marx, on commissions ranging from Doris Duke’s Honolulu home Shangri La to the United Nations Delegates Dining Room. Fashion designers, including Pauline Trigère, Adrian and Bonnie Cashin, also used her fabrics, yielding some of the most distinctively American fashions of the mid-20th century. Her luxurious handwoven fabrics combined vivid color, lush textures, unexpected materials and a glint of metallic—a style that grew so prevalent it became known as the “Liebes Look.” This exhibition’s title is a nod to her recipe for creating a successful color scheme for the home or in fashion: ‘a dark, a light, a bright.’”
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