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How Dorothy's Weaving Inspired Architecture and Design
Dorothy Lebas studied art at columbia teachers college. While there, a teacher of hers commented that her paintings looked more like tapestries. She then met leon lebis, a business man whose family owned an upscale luxury department store back in san francisco. And so she married into this very wealthy family and was really on fire with her weaving. Her textiles were beautiful on their own, but she was most interested in how they could work within the architecture of a room to create a kind of experience of a space. The gauzy weave of a window shade could filter sunlight out during the day while multiplying and reflecting incandescent lights in the evening.
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