Object Timeline

  • We acquired this object.

1954

  • Work on this object began.

1964

  • Work on this object ended.

2021

2023

2025

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Pillow, Toss pillow

This is a Pillow. It was designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Alexa Griffith as part of A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

It is dated ca. 1959. Its medium is twill woven nylon 6-6, acrylic, cotton, viscose rayon, acetate, and lurex. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.


Whether for fashion or interiors, accessories offered the perfect small canvas for Liebes’s most eclectic combinations of colors and materials. "There’s not a timid one in the collection," Marshall Field & Company announced in its 1964 advertisement for pillows from the Studios of Dorothy Liebes by Bloomcraft. They were available in toss pillow or floor cushion sizes.

It is credited Private collection.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 27.9 × 27.9 cm (11 × 11 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

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