Conquistador (Furnishing Fabric)
1966
Designed by Larsen Design Studio (American, 1958–1997) United States, New York, New York
New York City
The design of this velvet features a fraught meeting between Spanish colonial design and Incan art and architecture. The pattern’s designer, Jack Lenor Larsen, drew inspiration for the pattern from a carving he saw while in Peru. He has described the resulting textile as his imagining of “how an Inca might handle a baroque motif. That is, flatly and without the robust movement typical in Europe. More like the stone walls of Peru.”
Cotton, plain weave; supplementary pile warps forming cut, solid velvet; resist-dyed (batik); printed selvedge