Moulin Rouge
Panel
1960-1965 (made)
1960-1965 (made)
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Panel of hand-woven furnishing fabric. Woven in variations of plain weave with pile loops in rayon, cotton, metallic thread (laminated with Mylar), cellophane and plastic sequins. Lined with fuschia silk.
Object details
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Title | Moulin Rouge (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Woven in rayon, cotton, metallic thread, cellophane and plastic sequins, lined with silk |
Brief description | "Moulin Rouge." Panel of hand-woven furnishing fabric, designed by Dorothy Liebes, New York, early 1960s. Designed for Dorothy Draper to use in a nightclub called "Moulin Rouge" in Rio de Janeiro. |
Physical description | Panel of hand-woven furnishing fabric. Woven in variations of plain weave with pile loops in rayon, cotton, metallic thread (laminated with Mylar), cellophane and plastic sequins. Lined with fuschia silk. |
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Credit line | Given by Miss Dorothy Liebes |
Object history | "The metallic is by Fairtex, for whom I am a stylist, and while it is laminated on both sides with Mylar, it is still quite fragile.. This fabric was woven for the famous American interior designer, Dorothy Draper, for a night club stage in Rio de Janeiro called the Moulin Rouge, so we called the panel "Moulin Rouge." The application called for such a vivid and distinctive theatrical -looking fabric." (From a letter from Dorothy Liebes to Barbara J Morris, Assistant Keeper of Circulation, dated 21 May 1965) |
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Accession number | CIRC.267-1965 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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