Are you allergic to meaningless
and uninspired patterns in printed cloths? Yes! So am I.

Flora Americana

While solidly rooted in the fast paced, industrialized, modern world, Marguerita collected handmade folk art expressions. She would often go to auctions and buy Americana wherever she could.

Spencerian

Illustrations are created with signature flourishes portraying horses, angles, faces, eagles, and script. This set of drawings is unique because it highlights Margueritas stylized technique, separating her work from the typographic fashions of the time.

Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music, built in the Rockefeller center, is a celebration of design by the American artists of the modern school. Marguerita designed two textiles in the iconic music house which are still in use today. Lilies in the Air curtain, a lovely feminine design, hangs in the women’s powder room. The Grand Lounge is where Margueritas carpet design of dancing silhouettes can be found. These two designs are entirely different and show Marguerita’s technique range from delicate lilies to art deco silhouettes.

100 Years of American Design

American history, vernacular, politics, and modern views inspired this collection. Inspiredby quilt patterns, old fashioned one room school houses, ribbons, lace, and florals derive from the Victorian styles of femininity. Marguerita’s research also led her through a Pennsylvania Dutch period which greatly influenced her collections.

Table Talk

Marguerita’s textiles could stir up conversation by quite literally talking back. Her clever wit accompanied the iconic Table Talk tablecloths in the form of pamphlets that guided political and current event conversations. These textiles navigated the political climate of the time and referenced an American patriotism that could be celebrated by all who sat at the table.

Code Signals

Marguerita loved sailing and thus a nautical collection followed. Flags, compasses, stars and stripes make a complete collection of timeless nautical designs. Signals cocktail napkins directly depict nautical code signals with a smart red boarder. Graphic and traditional approaches at play.

From our archives, we have over 140 designs to choose from.

Marguerita’s modern, colorful, and lively patterns were used to create beautiful objects by The Museum of Modern Art; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Food52 Shop.