April Showers 100% organic cotton
The work of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is recognized worldwide as pivotal to the development of modern architecture. Through a deep understanding of our relationship with the natural world, Wright’s ideas and designs were inspired by organic forms. His vision, “to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give rhyme, reason, and meaning to life” is carried on through the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and represented on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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In 1927, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a series of twelve seasonally themed monthly covers for Liberty Magazine. The magazine deemed the covers too avant-garde and returned them to Wright. Each design of the Liberty Magazine covers is an example of Wright's practice of using the tools of his trade: a t-square, triangle, and compass to create lively, geometric designs. Cloud9's adaptation of April Showers and Coonley Tulip adapts Wright's well-know illustration into a dynamic and fluid pattern perfect for your quilting adventures.
Wright began his career in the 1880s during the heyday of the Arts and Crafts movement. Its embrace of natural materials and fine handwork are reflected in Wright's highly-embellished early work, The House Beautiful. As he launched his independent career, he became the preeminent developer and practitioner of the distinctively American, Prairie Style, highlighting the simple geometric basis of nature. As Wright’s style matured, it demonstrated a broader more sweeping approach, reducing decorative design to abstracted beauty characterized by line, shape, light and space through a blend of modern and traditional materials which will eventually go on to shape Mid-Century Modern ideals. In our two introductory fabric collections we bridge his earliest undertakings with his lasting iconic style