Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Drapery material commissioned by Philip Johnson for the Rockefeller guest house, with a shimmering vertical stripe of pearl and copper-colored metallics. The warp is of irregularly distributed pearly plastic and copper-colored Lurex strips; the weft is beige chenille yarn.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Anni Albers, (American, born Germany, 1899–1994)
- Weaver
- Anni Albers, (American, born Germany, 1899–1994)
- Date
- ca. 1944
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anni Albers
- Medium
- Medium: cotton, copper foil, plastic strips Technique: plain weave
- Dimensions
- Warp x Weft: 21 x 45.7 cm (8 1/4 x 18 in.)
- Type
- woven textiles
- Sample
