Marion Dorn, 1896-1964

Christine Boydell, The Architect of Floors, modernism, art and Marion Dorn designs, London, 1996, p.62, n.50 for a similar design circa 1935-1938

The colour is slightly more of a raspberry and less orange than on the catalogue illustration. Generally worn, superficially dirty and slightly stained. Foundation threads visible in three areas to the longer edge opposite the signature. Some restorations at short end opposite signature. Carpet would benefit from a clean.
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Flat weaving with areas of cut pile was a technique pioneered by Marion Dorn for modernist rugs and was intended to better express the material qualities of weaving through contrast of textures. During the 1930s, Dorn worked with the architect Oliver Hill to design site-specific pieces. Hill repeated the seaside theme in his design for the Midland Hotel, Morecombe in 1933 and ‘Landfall’, a modernist house at Poole, Dorset, completed in 1938.