Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)
Atelier Martine
1915–1925
- Medium
- Cotton and linen, plain weave; block printed
- Dimensions
- 139.7 × 130.5 cm (55 × 51 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
block printingfurnishing textileweaving - printedTextileweavingprinted textile
About
Two pulsating columns of black flowers, perhaps coneflowers, shown in high relief against a gold ground, represent one of the Atelier Martine’s most graphically compelling patterns. Curtains made from this fabric decorated the drawing room of the barge Amour, which was part of Poiret’s “pavilion” at the 1925 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts.
