Maharam

"Anyone hoping to find proof of gender bias in industrial design need look no further than the car." Now on Maharam Stories, Alice Rawsthorn on Dorothée Pullinger, the woman who successfully designed and manufactured a car intended to be driven by women in 1920s Britain. https://lnkd.in/ede7xehy

"How we build and nurture a sense of home—feels more pressing now than ever." Ibrahim Kombarji on "Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial" at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: https://lnkd.in/ehQp2AWz

Now on Maharam Stories, writer Billie Muraben examines Austrian architect Adolf Loos' approach to architecture and interiors. https://lnkd.in/eNm9kmci

Now on Maharam Stories, artist Aleishall Girard Maxon on the sun as a defining motif in the design legacy of Alexander Girard. https://lnkd.in/esbFEFJY

Now on Maharam Stories, Harmen Liemburg on Kadans 2.0, an experimental weaving project by designers Aliki van der Kruijs and Jos Klarenbeek, that translates open-source data mapping the movement of waves in the North Sea into a jacquard tapestry. https://lnkd.in/eFYMvQMh

Our partnership with Maharam, a New York-based textile company with over a century of expertise, emphasizes how textile choice shapes design and function: https://lnkd.in/d_Psi5k6 This year, we introduced Maharam’s Ribbed Weave by Paul Smith for our Settle Outdoor Series alongside Hearth, Manner, and Beck textiles. We spoke with leading members of Maharam’s design studio, Megan Younge and Sarah Baker, to explore each material’s unique qualities.

On view at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum through August 10, 2025, Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial features twenty-five new site-specific commissions exploring design's role in relation to the diverse definitions and experiences of home across the U.S., U.S. territories, and tribal nations. Maharam is proud to provide material support for the Triennial including forthcoming textile Grange Basket woven with a blend of recycled contents for slipcovers as part of the exhibition design by architects Johnston Marklee, as well as for an exhibition by PIN-UP that reimagines the Carnegie bedroom as a contemporary screening room featuring a central bed and curtain in textile Tune alongside a documentary that chronicles daily life across three LGBTQIA+ communal living structures serving as rural and suburban sanctuaries. https://lnkd.in/eQGcyz4f Installation image of “Dream Homes” by PIN–UP (Elliot Goldstein © Smithsonian Institution) in "Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial" at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Now on #MaharamStories, Alice Rawsthorn shares the lesser-known legacy of musician and educator Gertrud Grunow, whose classes exploring sound, movement, and color were among the most radical in Bauhaus history. https://lnkd.in/eTCGjhWN

“The magic of El Anatsui’s work relies on the simplicity of its materials,” writes Jessica Hemmings. Now on Maharam Stories, Hemmings considers the Nigerian-based artist’s vast surfaces comprising thousands of smaller fragments. https://lnkd.in/e29CGa8i Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon, Installation View, © El Anatsui. Photo © Tate (Joe Humphrys)

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