Tapis et Tissus

Carpets and Fabrics is a portfolio volume about the famous series of textile design pattern books published in 1929 by Charles Moreau in Paris. Textile artist Sonia Delaunay edited this collection of textiles, created by her contemporary Art Deco and modernist designers. Like her own work, the designs incorporate geometric shapes and abstract patterns for rugs and fabrics, the idea of modernism being that the overall design of interiors and fashion be a coordinated look. French, German, Czech, Austrian, and Belgian designers and from the Weiner Werkstatte are represented in color and mostly black and white prints. Featured designers include Anni Albers, Maurice Dufrene, Eileen Gray, Pierre Legrain and editor Sonia Delaunay. Like many of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library’s pattern and design resources, this folio is from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art’s Night Art School.