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Knoll Textiles Sample Kit

Decorative Arts and Design

MEDIUM Plastic, textile, paper, metal
  • Place Made: United States
  • DATES ca. 1987
    DIMENSIONS Box: 4 x 11 x 15 1/2 in. (10.2 x 27.9 x 39.4 cm) Cards: 3 x 2 3/4 in. (7.6 x 7 cm)  (show scale)
    MARKINGS Label: Printed paper blue, red, and white label on front of short end of box: "Knoll Textiles"
    ACCESSION NUMBER 2010.31a-b
    CREDIT LINE Gift of Vera White Hollander
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Colorless plastic rectangular box (a) with detachable cover (b) containing 438 textile samples divided into three rows. Each textile sample mounted on a 3 x 2 3/4 inch white paper card printed with pattern name and color-way. The various color-ways of each pattern secured with a gold metal chain and fronted with a red title card. Condition (March 2010): Scratches to plastic box; samples in very good condition.
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION (Graphics) Takaaki Matsumoto (Japanese, born 1954). Knoll Textiles Sample Kit, ca. 1987. Plastic, textile, paper, metal, Box: 4 x 11 x 15 1/2 in. (10.2 x 27.9 x 39.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Vera White Hollander, 2010.31a-b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.2010.31a-b_view1.jpg)
    IMAGE overall, CUR.2010.31a-b_view1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2010
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    (Graphics) Takaaki Matsumoto (Japanese, born 1954). <em>Knoll Textiles Sample Kit</em>, ca. 1987. Plastic, textile, paper, metal, Box: 4 x 11 x 15 1/2 in. (10.2 x 27.9 x 39.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Vera White Hollander, 2010.31a-b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.2010.31a-b_view1.jpg)