ROLLER PRINTED RAYON
69 x 105cm
David Whitehead Ltd
LITERATURE
The Sixties: Decade of Design Revolution, Lesley Jackson, Phaidon, 1998
20th Century Pattern Design: Textile & Wallpaper Pioneers, Lesley Jackson, Mitchell Beazley, 2002 V&A Pattern – The Fifties, V&A Publishing, 2009
Designing Women of Post War Britain, Colorado Springs Fine Art Centre, USA, 2008
Textile Design, Lucienne Day, Andrew Casy, Antique Collectors Club, 2014
EXHIBITIONS
Designing Women of Post War Britain, Colorado Springs Fine Art Centre, USA, 2008 Women Design, Mid-Century Britain, The Textile Museum, Washington DC, USA, 2010
COLLECTIONS
The Victoria & Albert Museum
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
H. Kirk Brown III and Jill A. Wiltse, Denver, Colorado, USA Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University
£3,000
Austrian / British. Marian Mahler was born in Vienna and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule. She moved to Britain in 1937. In the 1950s she worked for Allan Walton, Edinburgh Weavers and Donald Brothers. At David Whitehead Ltd she was given a mandate to reinvigorate the company by producing affordable textiles with good design.