JUDITH FOUND (BRITISH 1944- 2022)

JUDITH FOUND (BRITISH 1944 - 2022): A wool pile floor rug, in the Art Deco style, with stylised geometric decoration, in shades of pistachio, pink, yellow and brown, artists mark to corner.

226cm x 125.5cm

Provenance: From the estate of Judith Found, textile designer.

During her long career, Judith worked as a freelance fashion print designer. Later she went on to teach printed textiles on the fashion design course at St Martin’s School of Art in London (now Central Saint Martins). She taught successive generations of designers including John Galliano, Katharine Hamnett, Matthew Williamson, Craig Green and Richard Quinn; as well as those who returned to the college as course directors, namely Louise Wilsonand Willie Walters.

Earlier in her career she was selling designs to the photographer Elsbeth Juda, who with her husband Hans ran the Ambassador magazine for the promotion of British textiles and fashion, and Deryck Healey Associates in London, to fashion design studios in New York and Paris, and in Italy, Japan, Canada and Germany.

It was during her sales trips that Judith started to collect art deco antiques, bought from flea markets across the globe, but particularly America. She furnished her West Hampstead home with furniture by Eileen Gray and Fiesta crockery. This small collection of rugs has come from her home in Hampstead.