"Notebook" Fabric
Designed by Robert Venturi, American, born 1925. Made by the The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.
Geography:
Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Date:
Designed 1981-84Medium:
Print on cottonDimensions:
56 inches x 9 feet (142.2 x 274.3 cm)Curatorial Department:
Costume and TextilesObject Location:
1987-99-1Credit Line:
Gift of Collab: The Group for Modern and Contemporary Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987
Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Date:
Designed 1981-84Medium:
Print on cottonDimensions:
56 inches x 9 feet (142.2 x 274.3 cm)Curatorial Department:
Costume and TextilesObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1987-99-1Credit Line:
Gift of Collab: The Group for Modern and Contemporary Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987
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Like the dashes in the Grandmother fabric, the Notebook pattern was inspired by standard stationers' supplies, but according to Denise Scott Brown, it evolved "to look more like the black-and-white blobs on the covers of composition notebooks that American children use in school."
