ROLLER PRINTED RAYON
70 x 108.5cm
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
David Whitehead Ltd, Artist Designed Textiles 1952-1969 Alan Peat, Oldham Leisure Services, 1993
The Victoria & Albert Museum’s Textile Collection, British Textile Design From 1940 to the Present, Ngozi Ikoku, V&A Publications, 1999
Designing Women of Post War Britain, Colorado Springs Fine Art Centre, USA, 2008 V&A Pattern – The Fifties, V&A Publishing, 2009
British Textiles, 1700 to the Present, Linda Parry, V&A Publishing, 2010
Mid-Century Modern Complete, Dominic Bradbury, Thames & Hudson, 2014
EXHIBITIONS
David Whitehead Ltd, Artist Designed Textiles 1952-1969, Oldham Museum & Art Gallery, 1993 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
H. Kirk Brown III and Jill A. Wiltse, Denver, Colorado, USA
£3,500
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.