Spaces: Entryway

Once you get past our still-unpainted front doors (long story, soon to be rectified), you'll be greeted by more of our favorite things. The sideboard has sentimental value for my daughter. She found it at an estate sale years ago, and it was the first piece she ever restored. The vintage Von Nessen lamp came out of our store before it closed, and the brass figurals are part of my daughter's collection, while the Howard Miller Museum Clock is mine. The woven wall hanging and stainless steel coat rack are my daughter's, and the mirror is mine...new modern pieces that I think work well with the vintage. The picture on the wall is embroidered folk art, an Etsy find that I gave my daughter one Christmas.

Anni Albers

Anni Albers (1899-1994) (born Annelise Fleischmann) was a German textile designer, weaver, writer and printmaker. She grew up in an affluent home and had studied art as a child, but she was expected to live a traditional domestic life as her mother had done. She rebelled and chose to pursue an education in art at the Bauhaus, where she became a student in 1922.

There she enrolled in the weaving workshop and began to experiment with new materials. Embracing modernism, she used straight lines and bold colors to create wall hangings.

She met her husband, famed artist Josef Albers, at the Bauhaus shortly after she enrolled, and the couple was married in 1925. When the school was forced to close in 1933, the couple emigrated to the United States, where they both took teaching positions at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.

In 1950 the Alberses moved to Connecticut, in order for Josef to accept the position of chairman of the Department of Design at Yale University. In 1951, Anni began her three-decades long collaboration with Knoll Textiles. Her designs have had a lasting effect in the field of textile design.

From albersfoundation.org and dwr.com
All images from albersfoundation.org

Albers at the loom

Josef and Anni Albers

Black-White-Gold

City

Intersecting

In Orbit

La Luz

Red Meander

Open Letter

Six Prayers

Under Way

Pasture

Textile wall hangings

Some of you love them. Some of you hate them. I'm in the love camp, and I've found one I think I may have to buy.

Offered by Native Line, these extraordinary tapestries grabbed my attention when I happened upon them on Pinterest. I immediately went to the site, and as hard as it was to narrow my choice, I finally settled on the Pamuya.

Pamuya

Prices range from $425 to over $2100, but there is one on the site right now that's marked down to $156.

Copper Serpentine

Diamond

Golden Incan Zig

Electric Zag

Solar Flare wall hanging

Golden Incan Palace

Grouping of wall hangings