Today we visited the Sonia Delaunay exhibit at The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. The galleries are overflowing with her gorgeous graphic patterns. The geometric and floral prints are still fresh some 80 and 90 years later. Her very identifiable graphic style and color combinations have clearly influenced so much of what we are seeing in current collections.

The great aspect of this exhibit is that it shows her paintings on an equal footing with her design and textile work. She stated that she saw her commercial work as just an extension of her art, and not a lesser form. The exhibit includes glimpses into her notebooks so you can see how a beautiful fabric went from a sketch to a textile.

-JB