Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

This richly colored floral pattern, related to some of Dufy's paintings, had a long lifespan within the atelier. This pattern was photographed as early as 1919 in the form of screens placed in the branch store in Biarritz, and as late as 1927, when it was used to decorate the walls, bed, seat coverings, and carpet of a cabin on the deluxe steamship Île-de-France, seen at right. The latter is a classic example of the unified design concept favored in the Wiener Werkstätte and promoted by Poiret.