Rare 1950S Marian Mahler Yellow Mobiles Fabric 1.6 Metres

Rare Marian Mahler Mobile pattern fabric in the yellow colourway, designed circa1950 for David Whitehead. 

The panel measures 114cm wide and is 166cm long.

This is an original piece of rayon fabric and not the Sandersons re-issue. It does have damage and wear to both edges - please see detailed photographs, however in the main its very useable.

I have another smaller 50cm drop section of this fabric available separately.

Marian Mahler (1911-1983), born in Austrian, trained at the Kuntgewerbeschule in Vienna and at the Royal State Academy, with some of her early designs being produced by the Wiener Werkstatte. She arrived in Britain in 1937 as Marianne Mahler and worked as a free-lance designer,  having supplied leading firms with her designs before the war. During the early 1950’s she produced many designs for Allan Walton Textiles, Edinburgh Weavers, Donald Brothers Ltd. and Helios. Her best client was David Whitehead in his ‘Contemporary Prints’ range. Whitehead’s were Britain’s most dynamic printed textile company, based in Rawtenstall, Lancashire. By 1948 the company was directed by architect Dr John Murray, whose ambition was to establish the Company in the forefront of contemporary design and to make good designs available on the mass market. Twenty of their designs were chosen to be displayed at the Festival of Britain and on the SS Campania, the touring ship of the festival. She was a great influence on British fabrics design during the 50’s and 60’s.