Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture

As an independent textile designer, Otti Berger (1898-1944) developed fabrics for walls, floors, windows and furniture. Her designs combined functionality, conceptual clarity as well as sensual beauty, and shed a new light on the long underestimated potential of fabrics in the modern interior. First a student and then a teacher at the Bauhaus, Otti Berger ran her own textile studio in Berlin in the 1930s and worked together with producers throughout Europe.
She was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. Lavishly illustrated with 500 images, this book presents Otti Berger's work - which has survived only fragmentarily - in a comprehensive manner for the first time. Through an artistically and academically motivated interdisciplinary research method, Judith Raum succeeds in reappraising this important work in terms of weaving technique and design, finally awarding Berger's achievements their rightful place in the history of architecture and design.