Sommerfeld
Object Details
- Designer
- Felice Rix-Ueno, Austrian, 1893–1967, active Japan 1935–1967
- Salubra-Werke A.G.
- For
- Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, Austria, 1903 – 1932
- Description
- Black ground. All-over asymmetrical fill lines in closely-spaced sprays suggesting grass, in yellow, green, light blue, metallic gold and silver. Ears of wheat worked in conforming to direction of sprays. Stylized multi-colored flowers, especially bright blue and reds; gray bugs, etc., scattered through. In each repeat five gray and silver bird shapes, asymmetrically placed, with head and tail plumage formed of sprays of gold lines over-crossed and blended with the fill lines.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. A.H. Jacobs
- 1917–28
- Accession Number
- 1967-14-1-a/f
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Wallcoverings
- Object Name
- Sidewall
- Type
- Sidewall
- Medium
- Machine-printed paper
- Dimensions
- L x W (a): 213.7 × 75.2 cm (7 ft. 1/8 in. × 29 5/8 in.)
- L x W (b): 212.1 × 75.2 cm (6 ft. 11 1/2 in. × 29 5/8 in.)
- L x W (d, roll): 203.8 × 74.9 cm (6 ft. 8 1/4 in. × 29 1/2 in.)
- Repeat H: 100.3 cm (39 1/2 in.)
- made in
- Grenzach, Switzerland
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Wallcoverings Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1967-14-1-a_f
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq41323534e-3174-4a71-b798-eaf3cc73a2ca
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