Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for Fabric Boxed Notecards

The brilliant mind and deft hand of the late Frank Lloyd Wright have left their indelible mark on the panorama of our civilization. For the reproduction of his unique designs in decorative fabrics, Frank Lloyd Wright chose only Schumacher’s. —Advertisement for F. Schumacher and Co., House Beautiful, October 1959

America’s greatest architect took a holistic approach to his trade, going beyond the creation of extraordinary structures to design the furniture, textiles, wallpaper, woodwork, lighting arrangements, and ornamental effects that filled them. The drawings adapted for reproduction in this notecard set—executed in 1955, as “Taliesin Line” screen-printed linen textiles for F. Schumacher and Company—make it clear that Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) worked as successfully in two dimensions as in three.