If you are going to NYC, then stop by the wonderful Cooper Hewitt Museum and see the exhibition devoted to textile designer Dorothy Liebes.

American textile designer, weaver, and colour authority Dorothy Liebes (1897–1972) profoundly influenced design fields, helping to shape American tastes in areas from interiors and transportation to industrial design, fashion, and film. The “Liebes Look”—which combined vivid colour, lush texture, and often a metallic glint- became inextricably linked with the modern American aesthetic.

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. 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.

If you cannot travel, the website has an extensive virtual exhibition.

The show runs through the 4th of February, 2024.

For more information, visit the Cooper Hewitt Museum’s website – https://www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/dorothy-liebes/

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