Art decò carpet – 381

Description

Art déco Carpet

Period: 1935
Dimensions: cm 190 x 266
Atelier Marion Dorn – France

Victoria Marion Dorn, also known as Marion Dorn Kauffer, was born in California on 25 December 1896 and died in Tangier (Morocco) on 28 January 1964.
Although primarily a textile designer, she also designed wallpapers. Known for her contribution to modern English-style interiors, she collaborated with renowned architects (Hiller, Mendelsohn, O’Rorke, etc.) and won particular acclaim for her “sculpted” carpets.
After her marriage to Henry Varnum Poor in 1919, she met Edward McKnight Kauffer, a designer, in Paris in 1923. She lived with him in London until 1940 and married him in 1950. Following his death in 1954, she returned to New York.
Marion Dorn’s career began in earnest in the early 1920s, after she moved to London.
She created batik textiles, painted on silk, velvet, wool, etc. Batik is a fabric dyeing technique in which the designer paints or stamps wax or other waterproofing materials, such as clay, resin, vegetable pastes or starch, onto the areas they intend to keep free of dye. Five of her batik textile designs were published in the May 1925 issue of Vogue. This boosted her popularity and led to her works being exhibited in various galleries and museums.
She founded her own company, MARION DORN LTD, in 1934, and received commissions from luxury hotels, such as the Savoy, Claridge’s and the Orion, as well as the “Queen Mary” transatlantic liner.
In 1960, she created a carpet for the diplomatic reception room at the White House.
She retired to Morocco in 1962, where she died in 1964.