Designtex + Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Modularity and Unity
Inspired by the forms and configurations of Frank Lloyd Wright’s stacking concrete blocks and the use of vertical structure, Designtex created a grouping of four modular patterns, Square Grid, Trellis Grid, Block Grid and Window Grid, available through the Designtex Digital Studio tool, allowing the designs to be custom colored and scaled for a multitude of possibilities. The patterns can be applied to substrates for both walls and textiles as well as mixed and matched. This offering plays into Wright’s desire to give all individuals the opportunity to live with customized design that complements their lives.
Square Grid: A simple linear grid of squares, inspired by Wright’s use of the grid as an organizing system throughout his work.
Trellis Grid: A slender, trellis-like grid also reminiscent of the concrete framed window blocks that allow light to filter into Wright’s spaces.
Block Grid: A rhythmic pattern that distills the way Wright approached ornamentation, such as clerestories, screens and concrete ‘textile blocks’.
Window Grid: An abstract pattern that emulates the horizontally oriented facades of Wright’s architecture and geometric window designs that added touches of color.
Above: Stacking Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian Automatic blocks for the William and Elizabeth Tracy House. Produced under license from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. © FLWF. Image courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York). All Rights Reserved.