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Audrey Levy (b.1928)<br />
Cluster<br />
1960<br />
PO4.99<br />
The design Cluster features a singular motif<br />
and was designed as a half-drop repeat. The<br />
image here shows Audrey Levy in her studio<br />
examining her designs; Cluster can be seen on<br />
the back wall and she is holding Treescape.<br />
Other designs for <strong>Palladio</strong> wallpapers, including<br />
Maze and Pebble can be seen on the table.<br />
Levy studied textile design at the Royal College<br />
of Art and set up a studio at her home in 1948 to<br />
work as a freelance designer for fashion prints. The<br />
Council of Industrial Design recommended Levy<br />
to Lightbown Aspinall. It was important to her<br />
to retain control of her designs until completion.<br />
Richard Busby was supportive of Levy and allowed<br />
her to compose the repeat and select colourways.<br />
Levy remembers visiting the factory to ensure the<br />
design was precisely what she had envisaged.<br />
Audrey Levy in her studio, Kew, London, 1958. (Courtesy of<br />
John Maltby / RIBA Collections).<br />
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