China Seas Fabric: Arbre de Matisse Reverse - Custom Camel on Tinted 100% Linen
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In the early 1960s, Jay Hyde Crawford — founder of Quadrille, veteran of the kind of design education that required you to actually look at things — was looking at a Matisse drawing. What he saw was a tree that was not trying to be a tree. It was trying to be the idea of a tree: the gesture, the reach, the negative space between branches that tells you more about light than the branches themselves.
He drew it. It became Arbre de Matisse.
This colorway is Custom Camel. Not the shade of any actual camels… A custom mix, which means it exists in this lot and nowhere else. The next person who wants this exact color will be told no.
The ground is 100% linen. The repeat is 20½ by 25½ inches, which is large enough to let the tree breathe.
Reverse means the figure and ground have traded places. What was solid is now open. What was pattern is now space. The tree is still reaching — but now you see what it's reaching through.
Matisse did not design fabric. Crawford did. But Matisse showed him where to look.
| SKU: | 2035-09 | |
| Color: | Custom Camel on Tint (Lot: WHS J61683 B) | |
| Width: | 51" | |
| Repeat: | 20 1/2" V x 25 1/2" H | |
| Content: | 100% Linen | |
| Origin: | Handprinted in the USA on ground woven in Europe |
At time of listing, this fabric was in two pieces, both from the same dyelot. Please measure before ordering to make sure that these cuts will work for your project:
Please note that colors may not represent accurately in photo. Additional photo(s) provided to show scale, not colorway. All sales are final, and we do not send cuttings for approval.
