Cooper Hewitt says...
Glenn Peckman earned his B.F.A. in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He worked for two years as an apprentice in textile design with Ratti Silk in Como, Italy. Peckman designed numerous fabric collections during a thirteen-year association with Donghia Textiles. Peckman's work is well known for his acute sense of color. His background as an artist as well as his sabbatical trips to Italy, Germany, New York and other parts of the world have been influential in Peckman’s work. Over the years, he has consulted with one of the premiere German mills, to establish their color line and render textile art works for the mill to introduce to the market. He has received of a number of awards for his fabric designs; among them are an IBD Bronze Award for Upholstery Textiles, a first-place ASID Interior Design Product Award, and an Interior Design Roscoe Award for Best Textile Collection.
