Barbara Beckmann Designs Batik Matisse on hand-marblized Navy Cotton Table Cloth

Batik Matisse on hand-marbelized navy cotton Sateen Table Cloth

56" wide by 120" long

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About Barbara Beckmann

Barbara Beckmann was a San Francisco Bay Area textile artist whose work appeared in some of the most significant interiors of the last half century -- from the lobbies of the Four Seasons, the Wynn Hotels, and the Rosewood to the sets of Miami Vice, Ocean's Eleven, and The Butler. Trained at the University of Illinois and the Art Students League in New York, she began her career in professional textile design before relocating to California in 1974, where decorators and designers sought her out for decades.

Every piece Beckmann produced was made entirely by hand -- hand-painted, screen-printed, or batiked -- in her studio in Sonoma and through her ateliers in Napa and San Francisco. Her work was available to the trade only, through design showrooms, and was never sold to the public.

The pieces offered here were produced for specific interior design commissions. They were not manufactured speculatively or in open runs. Each reflects Beckmann's singular use of color and her command of layered surface technique -- the result of a process she developed and refined over more than five decades.

These are not decorative objects that happen to be functional. They are finished works by a recognized artist, available now for the first time outside the trade.