Conquistador (Furnishing Fabric)
<p>The design of this velvet features a fraught meeting between Spanish colonial design and Incan art and architecture. The pattern’s designer, Jack Lenor Larsen, drew inspiration for the pattern from a carving he saw while in Peru. He has described the resulting textile as his imagining of “how an Inca might handle a baroque motif. That is, flatly and without the robust movement typical in Europe. More like the stone walls of Peru.”</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1966
- Dimensions
- 286.6 × 142.3 cm (112 3/4 × 56 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Larsen Design Studio
Artist
Textile
Designed by Larsen Design Studio (American, 1958-1997)
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Record
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- Larsen Design Studio
- Year
- 1966
- Dimensions
- 286.6 × 142.3 cm (112 3/4 × 56 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1966-131999
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified