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Circa: 1950s
Condition: Excellent
Size: 27" X 27"SQUARE
Type: Silk
Manufacturer: Vera Neumann
Vera's florals are much more than just floral. This one boasts such deep, rich colors: a broad pumpkin band, sprays of greenery, and a rich chocolate brown center with occasional tan and pink flowers scattered about.
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Although there is no tag specifying its origins and materials, I believe it to be silk, hand-rolled, and made in Japan in the 1950s. It contains the ladybug logo next to her signature as most early Veras do.
This scarf is in excellent condition. No stains, odors, rips, stains or holes. It measures 27" X 27"printed on beautiful printed silk.
This square shape is so versatile--this scarf can be used as a headscarf, a neckscarf with butterfly tie at neck or thrown across the back of a coat. It can be used to take the place of a blouse and even as a decorating accent--as a throw over sewing machine, or made into a pillow cover. Vera herself suggested that, since they began life as a painting, they could be collected and hung on the wall. This one has such rich color it can't help but brighten whatever corner it is in!
A beautiful fall accent for coats, sweaters, or jackets, this scarf is a standout!
*VERA NEUMANN (1910-1993)
What would one day become the vast Vera empire began humbly in the years immediately following the Second World War, in the New York City apartment the designer shared with her husband and business partner, George Neumann, son of a wealthy Viennnese textile company owner. Vera, who had studied art and design at New York City's Cooper Union, transformed her kitchen table into a workstation where she silk-screened botanical motifs onto linen place mats.
A third partner in the budding enterprise, F. Werner Hamm, hand-delivered these early creations to the Fifth Avenue department store B. Altman. He showed them to the buyer. The buyer liked the new and fresh designs. In fact, he liked them so much the order almost floored the young entrepreneurs. How could they possibly deliver?
But deliver they did, and within a decade, Vera Neumann was well on her way to becoming a household name. Americans had never seen prints like these on their tables, and they couldn't get enough of them.
Responding to the strong public demand, the designer's offerings quickly expanded to include tablecloths, napkins and all manner of home accessories. Her own firm, the Vera Companies, produced linens, scarves and sportswear, while licensing agreements allowed her to develop dinnerware for Mikasa and Island Worcester, fabric and wallpaper for Schumacher and sheets for Burlington Industries.
In 1972, The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. held an exhibit entitled "Vera: The Renaissance Woman," |
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