A Community of Apprentices
The Taliesin Fellowship – a community of apprentices who lived alongside Wright in an immersive learning environment – and Wright’s core design principles and key historical works are the starting point for the collection.
Designtex + Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
In celebration of continual learning and iteration, Designtex has partnered with The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to offer a new collection of textiles, wallcoverings and custom materials, rooted in the iconic teachings and philosophies of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Designtex + Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Elemental Wright
Designtex introduces three woven upholstery textiles, one based on Frank Lloyd Wright’s original design, the other two based on artworks by members of the Taliesin Fellowship: Vern Swaback and Eugene Masselink, as well as two digitally printed wallcovering designs, a series of modular digital designs, and a fully customizable digital asset that reissues Wright’s Design for Hillside Theatre Curtain.
Pentimento 3086
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Circulate 9417
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Vertex 3087
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Fellowship 8538
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Parquet 8529
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Hillside Theater Custom
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Digital Studio Wallcoverings
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Abstraction of Natural Forms
Distilling the geometries of nature was one of Wright’s deepest philosophies. Each of these textile designs celebrates a separate foundational element — the circle, the triangle and the pentagon — that Wright and his apprentices sought to honor in their ‘organic architecture’ designs and artwork.
“Frank Lloyd Wright’s design principles predate concepts that are ubiquitous in wellness discussions today, like biophilic design, human-centered design, and evidence-based design – our innate human tendency to seek connections with nature”
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Textile
Geometry of nature
The trio of textiles also pays tribute to Wright’s reverence for materials. Instead of mimicking the original source, Designtex has incorporated a variety of weaving techniques, yarns and decorative weaves to bring a richness to the fabrics.
Wallcovering
Celebrating the grid
Wright’s belief that nature is at the core of everything led him to establish a distinctive grammar for each project within a universal geometry-based framework. These wallcovering designs build on the balance between order, pattern and color to convey the openness and movement in nature, while also serving as a creative prompt for designers to unify ornamentation with purpose.
Digital Studio
Modularity and Unity
Inspired by the forms and configurations of Wright’s stacking concrete blocks and the use of vertical structure, Designtex created a grouping of four modular patterns available through the Designtex Digital Studio tool, allowing the designs to be custom colored and scaled for a multitude of possibilities. The patterns can be applied to substrates for both walls and textiles as well as mixed and matched. This offering plays into Wright’s desire to give all individuals the opportunity to live with customized design that complements their lives.
Custom
Hillside Theater
The original scale drawing for Frank Lloyd Wright’s epic Hillside Theater Curtain is the jumping off point for custom murals, textiles and glass film. Reimagined to play to the strengths and opportunities of digital printing, this special release honors Wright’s forward-thinking ethos.
Elemental Wright
