Live Auction 5040Modernism from a California Collection
MARIA KIPP
Lot 232

MARIA KIPP

COLLECTION OF TEN MODERNIST TEXTILES

Closed18 November 2007

Price Realised

GBP 1,750

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MARIA KIPP
COLLECTION OF TEN MODERNIST TEXTILES
circa 1940, hand woven panels of cotton, wool and with lurex threads, most retaining designer's printed paper labels
78 in. (198 cm.) x 25 in. (63.5 cm.) example hanging (10)

Specialist note

Trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Kipp established a weaving workshop in Munich, specialising in in dress fabrics. Following her emigration to Los Angeles in 1924, Kipp began to specialise in innovative interior and furnishings fabrics, often featuring modernistic motifs, that were handwoven for the decorators and architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolph Schindler.