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Wall for
GEORGE JENSEN CENTER FOR ADVANCED DESIGN, New York. 1968

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(Originally designed for the Jensen Center, this wall is now in the showroom of Directional Furniture Showrooms, New York)
linen
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Sheila Hicks collaborated with Warren Flatner [[strikethorugh]] composed [[/strikethrough]] in composing a cohesive environment in which all the elements - Hans Wegner furniture, walls, floors -- [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] in natural colors [[strikethrough]] + textures [[/strikethrough]] and organic materials, unite to create an [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] lively exuberance.

The linen room has two long facing walls of wiry wet-spun linen tassels looped at one end and cut at the other. They are stitched onto the linen base cloth.

Sheila's pre-occupation with the spirally wrapped tassel, first seen as an integral outgrowth of pile construction in the earlier "Prayer rug" series, is here developed into independently constructed elements applied in a rich, random composition.

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