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Robespierre
Robert Caillard1955
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Stripe pattern created by alternating bands of a scrolling foliate line and vertical pinstripes with polka dots. Flocked floral motifs are overprinted on the vertical striped bands. Printed in blue, mauve, metallic copper and green flock on light green ground.
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Details
- Title: Robespierre
- Creator: Robert Caillard
- Date Created: 1955
- Type: Sidewall
- Rights: Museum gift in loving memory of Robert Kaufmann, by his sister, Catherine Tatum
- Medium: Block printed and flocked on paper
- Provenance: This is one of two rolls of "Robespierre" sidewall paper and three partial rolls of matching border paper from the Robert Kaufman apartment, former Cooper-Hewitt librarian, on West 93rd Street, New York City.
- Inscribed: Stamped on the verso near end of roll: "Made in France for Nancy McClelland, Inc." along with the pattern number.
- Dimensions: L x W x D: 1371.6 x 65 cm (45 ft. x 25 9/16 in.)
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