Costume and Textiles "Notebook" Fabric Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central AmericaDesigned 1981-84 Designed by Robert Venturi, American, born 1925. Made by the The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Print on cotton Currently not on view 1987-99-1 Gift of Collab: The Group for Modern and Contemporary Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987 |
LabelLike 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." |
