Jack Lenor Larsen, a legendary designer of textiles who worked with leading figures in modernism, died on December 22 at the age of 93. Larsen, originally from Seattle, studied architecture at the University of Washington before switching to furniture design and weaving and earned an MFA from Cranbrook. He was a perpetual global traveler who elevated the notion of traditional craft within the modern idiom. With a passion for natural yarns, he interpreted the motifs and techniques of varied Asian and African indigenous weaving.
Larsen worked with major 20th century architects: his fabrics were used originally in SOM’s Lever House, in Eero Saarinen’s Irwin Miller House, and chosen by Frank Lloyd Wright for Falling Water, among many other projects.
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