Designtex | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Designtex was founded in 1961 by Ralph Saltzman and Harry Paley, who wanted to offer finely designed textiles at affordable prices. While having a core selection of furnishing fabrics, the founders also commissioned architects such as Aldo Rossi, Richard Meier, Robert Venturi, and Denise Scott Brown to design special fabrics for the company. In 1988 Designtex was acquired by Steelcase and currently functions as an independent subsidiary of Steelcase. Its continued focus on research-based materials for the built environment includes a particular emphasis on sustainable textiles at reasonable costs due in large part to Susan Lyons, president of Designtex since 2012. Formerly the creative director of... more.

We have 13 objects that Designtex has been involved with.

Vertical pattern of organic 'inkblots' in forest-to-lime greens and fuschia pinks with variable shading throughout. The design is loosely repetitive, with two pink lines of blots followed by two closer green lines and again, two pink lines. Faded, gray stained lines of inkblots align with the pattern in the background. The design is on a white, horizontally-oriented rectangular background.

Designtex has collaborated with
Wallace Sewell and
Marjolijn Fossen and
Rinekwall and
Tobias Batrla and
Nancy Guay Giesberger.

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