Textile artist, Gunta Stölzl was the only female director at the Bauhaus. A number of her designs are currently available as limited edition rugs from Christopher Farr, including this one entitled Tapestry.
This is based on a design painted around 1926 and the original artwork is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
No price is given for the rug, which means you can expect a high pricetag. Make enquiries via the Christoper Farr website.
Following on from yesterday's Ihmemaa print, here's some more textile art for your walls. We've featured many of Clare Nicolson's textile's designs before: her charming digitally printed fabric draw on a mixture of vintage fabrics and paper to create brand new patterns. She's recently expanded her range to include the 'minis' wall hangings.
It's a range of five designs, presumably named because – at 21 x 29cm – they are much smaller than her 'birdie' wall hangings. The two hangings shown both have clear retro style: the design on the left is called Vincent and features one of her trademark birds, the one on the right has been titled folklore in a self-explanatory manner. Both come stretched over a wooden frame for hanging and cost £40 each.
See them online
Miss the humble tape? Want to pay homage to it every day of the week? You need the Matt Whitewell Cassette Rainbow limited edition print.
It's available from L'Affiche Moderne, a French online print shop that specialises in the works of young photographers, graphic designers and children’s illustrators, offering prints in strictly limited numbers – that number usually being 300.
New Zealander Matt Whitewell is one of its artists and this is one of his works, mixing the audio tape and the rainbow to eye-catching effect. Choose from a 20 x 28-inch print or a 12 x 16-inch work, prices starting at 29 Euros.
The Ihmemaa print, sold as fabric art print, is a new design by Sanna Annukka for Marimekko, but it has its inspiration is firmly rooted in the past.
It illustrates the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala and is in a typical Scandinavian folk art style. The fabric is sold by the repeat, wit a 262cm piece costing £98.
It can be bought online from FunktionAlley.
We've featured the work of Royston Cooper in the past, a British illustrator best-known his travel posters and his classic Keep Britain Tidy poster. This Have A Nice Day poster isn't by him, but it's incredibly similar to his work.
It's actually by Japanese illustrator Takashi Furuya, whi has taken inspiration from the classic British/London red bus and the past to produce this eye-catching piece of artwork.
The V&A is stocking it as part of its new range, sized at 50 x 70cm, it sells for a bargain £15.
If you enjoyed the V&A’s Cold War exhibition last year, then MoMA’s Polish Posters 1945–89 should also be of interest to you.
During the Cold War, the state-controlled Polish Poster School produced striking designs that attracted international acclaim for their use of surreal imagery and bold design. The exhibition brings together a collection of posters that typify this style from the 1940s up to the 1980s. The exhibition runs until the end of November at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Further information can be found on the MoMa website.
