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1947

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2021

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2025

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Textile, Panel for Adrian Ltd. Showroom, Beverly Hills, California

This is a Textile. It was designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes and made for (as the client) Gilbert Adrian.

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

It is dated 1947. Its medium is handwoven rayon, silk, metallic yarn, and leather. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.


Fashion designer Gilbert Adrian used Liebes’s custom fabrics to create evening coats for celebrity clients. He also commissioned her to create this glamorous curtain for his Beverly Hills, California, salon. Made of dove gray and cognac leather strips interlaced with metallic gold threads, it formed an opulent backdrop to his fashion shows.

It is credited Museum of Arts and Design, New York; gift of Dorothy Liebes Design, through the American Craft Council, 1973.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 256.5 × 120.7 cm (8 ft. 5 in. × 47 1/2 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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