Maharam
UNITED STATES  

Founded in 1902

Founded by Louis Maharam in 1902, Maharam originally set up shop selling commodity textiles on lower Broadway in New York City. When "talkies" replaced silent movies, Maharam?s four sons began supplying flame resistant damasks to improve the acoustics of movie houses. By 1940 Maharam had showrooms in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, and had expanded their line of theatrical fabrics, becoming an internationally renowned resource for set and costume designers.
In the late fifties, Maharam sensed new opportunity and began supplying textiles for commercial interiors, helping pioneer the concept of contract textiles. Over the following three decades, the company flourished through a commitment to performance, value and service. Since 1997, the fourth generation of the Maharam family has brought new definition and direction to the company, focusing on design and technology, and marrying past and present with textiles drawn from the archives of the twentieth century?s greatest creative talents, rich natural fiber textures, and next generation synthetics influenced by the latest runway trends.
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 Maharam
251 Park Avenue South
10010 New York N.Y.
UNITED STATES
T +1 212 614 2900
F +1 212 995 0349
clientservices@maharam.com
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'Circles' Fabric
D E S I G N E R S
Charles Eames
Ray Eames

P R O D U C E R S
 Kvadrat, Denmark
Maharam, United States
1947

M A T E R I A L   A N D   D I M E N S I O N S
cotton
70% cotton - 30% polyester
In 5 colourways.
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'Crosspatch' Fabric
D E S I G N E R S
Charles Eames
Ray Eames

P R O D U C E R S
 Kvadrat, Denmark
Maharam, United States
1947

M A T E R I A L
fabric
75% viscose - 25% polyester
In 5 colourways.
 
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'Optik' Fabric
D E S I G N E R
Verner Panton

P R O D U C E R S
 Kvadrat, Denmark
Maharam, United States

M A T E R I A L   A N D   D I M E N S I O N S
cotton
76% cotton - 24% polyester
In 6 colourways.
Optik was created in the 1960s and, as the name suggests, concerns a furnishing fabric with a strong optical art pattern, where the eye comes into play – both as regards the displaced graphics and colour combinations.
The furnishing fabric is quite reminiscent of the visual strength found in the work of the artist Vasarely, but the colours are definitely from the Panton universe: sunshine yellow/orange, red/carmine red, lilac/blue, lime/jade, blood red/red, ultramarine/violet and black/white. Optik was originally printed on cotton, but is now woven in a cotton/polyester fabric.
 
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'Small Dot' Fabric
D E S I G N E R S
Charles Eames
Ray Eames

P R O D U C E R S
 Kvadrat, Denmark
Maharam, United States
1947

M A T E R I A L   A N D   D I M E N S I O N S
cotton
71% cotton - 29% polyester
In 9 coulourways.
Dot, Small Dot, Circles and Crosspatch.
The four designs were originally created for a design competition for printed cotton fabrics, organised by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1947.
Crosspatch was the only one that went into production at that time, but the remaining three designs were worked on by the Maharam Design Studio in collaboration with Lucia Eames (daughter of Charles Eames) and have now been put into production.
 


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