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1928	Work on this object began.
1971	We acquired this object.
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Sidewall, Kairo

This is a sidewall. It was made by Wiener Werkstätte and manufactured by Maria Likarz-Strauss. It is dated 1928 and we acquired it in 1971. Its medium is machine printed on paper. It is a part of the Wallcoverings department.

Drapery design rendered in a minimal yet embellished fashion creating an elegant imitation. The designer picked out the most salient features of a good drapery: the way the fabric drapes, how the shadows fall on the pleats or folds in the fabric, the way the embellished pattern continues up and over those pleats, to fashion this exquisite design. The pleats appear somewhat rigid, almost to the point of abstraction, but not quite.

It is credited Gift of Harrison Cultra.

Sidewall (France)
block printed on handmade paper.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1928-2-110

Drawing, Textile Design: Fidelio
brush and gouache on paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts....
1988-62-373

Drawing, Textile Design: Gallus
brush and gouache on paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts....
1988-62-443

Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Sidewall (France)
block-printed on handmade paper.
Gift of Josephine Howell.
1955-85-5

This cloth has vertical lines of colors that blend and transition into each other both abruptly and slowly. The color striations are saturated lines of azure, white, magenta, yellow, cyan, and mauve but each transition into a lighter color on either side or one side, the gradients complementing the most saturated areas. For example: the darkest magenta transitions into a rose pink around it, and the most saturated yellow transitions into a light yellow. Toward the middle, the colors are more abrupt in transition and look more side-by-side in arrangement, but still very subtle transition around them. From left to right, they color order is: azure to light blue to white, a thin magenta line with light pink on either side, a light yellow to a saturated cornflower yellow, slight strip of green and then abruptly cyan. The cyan touches an abrupt strip of rose, an thin line of light blue, an abrupt strip of black or deep blue, and back to azure. The azure repeats the longer transition from blue to a white, magenta surrounded by light pink, light yellow to cornflower yellow, and lastly three abrupt strips of cyan, rose pink, and cyan on the right hand side. All together, this fabric was made on a block-printed on a silk weave.

Object ID #907130233
silk, plain weave; block printed.
Lent by The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Allerton, 1924.211.
34.2016.4

Sidewall, Tenture Flottante
block-printed on paper.
Gift of The Museum at The Fashion Institute of Technology.
1998-75-76

Its dimensions are

H x W: 93 × 56 cm (36 5/8 × 22 1/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in margin: "Wiener Werkstatte".

Cite this object as

Sidewall, Kairo; Made by Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); Manufactured by Maria Likarz-Strauss (Austrian, b. Poland, 1893–1971); Austria; machine printed on paper; H x W: 93 × 56 cm (36 5/8 × 22 1/16 in.); Gift of Harrison Cultra; 1971-62-6

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CG5c/
Accession Number 1971-62-6
Object ID 18475331