Curtain
Maker & role
Wolf Bauer (b.1939), Designer; Knoll International, Manufacturer
Production date
1969
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Title
'Collage'
Production place
Measurements
L: 240 x W: 120cm (L: 2400 x W: 1200mm)
Credit line
Gift, Chee Soon & Fitzgerald, 2019
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Curtain in an abstract foliate motif designed by Wolf Bauer and manufactured by Knoll International, USA, circa 1969
Description
This curtain is made from cotton velvet and has beed screen printed with an abstract foliate motif designed by Wolf Bauer for fabric manufacturer Knoll International. The curtain, titled Collage, was produced in 1969 and retailed by influential 20th century Sydney interior decorater Marion Hall Best through her Woollahra store.
Wolf Bauer graduated from the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Stuttgart, Germany and pursued domestic freelance work, applying art to industry. During the 1960s Bauer's pieces included silkscreening work on cotton velvets, featuring abstractions of natural forms in a range of colors. In the late 1960s-1970s Bauer designed for leading American manufacturers, Knoll Textiles.
The textile is part of a collection of soft furnishings and ephemera donated to the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection by Sydney interiors firm Chee Soon & Fitzgerald.
Wolf Bauer graduated from the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Stuttgart, Germany and pursued domestic freelance work, applying art to industry. During the 1960s Bauer's pieces included silkscreening work on cotton velvets, featuring abstractions of natural forms in a range of colors. In the late 1960s-1970s Bauer designed for leading American manufacturers, Knoll Textiles.
The textile is part of a collection of soft furnishings and ephemera donated to the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection by Sydney interiors firm Chee Soon & Fitzgerald.
Accession number
L2019/21
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