Title: “None of Us Is Sentimental About the Hand”: Dorothy Liebes, Handweaving, and Design for Industry
Abstract: AbstractThis article addresses the ways in which American textile designer Dorothy Liebes (1899–1972) attempted to bridge the worlds of luxury handcraft production and design for industry in the early years of her studio. Liebes is perhaps best known today for her extremely expensive custom designs for drapes, screens, and furnishings, created for the very small number of clients who could afford them. She was, however, equally engaged with the creation of modernist Good Design, industrially produced, for the much larger population of Americans who furnished their homes on a middle-class budget. For Liebes there was no inherent conflict between her ambitions as both an “artist-craftsman,” creating custom designs, and as a designer-craftsman, translating her aesthetic into machine-made textiles and other products. It is in this capacity that she had the most profound influence on American design.Keywords: handweavingcraftdesign for industrymodernismGood Designtextile designGolden Gate Exposition
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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