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1960

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1970

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Textile, Drapery panel for the Persian Room at The Plaza Hotel, New York City

This is a Textile. It was designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes and interior designer: Henry Dreyfuss.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from National Museum of American History as part of A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

It is dated 1960. Its medium is cotton, rayon, and metallic yarns. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.


By the time the Persian Room draperies needed replacing in 1960, Liebes’s studio was no longer doing production handweaving. She re-designed the drapes to be woven on power looms in five shades of blue and green Lurex yarns, relying on reflected light to replicate the sparkling effect of the original’s lightbulbs.

It is credited Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 223.5 × 129.5 cm (7 ft. 4 in. × 51 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

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