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Ruth Adler Schnee has re-created her
award-winning designs.

W

ith the resurgence
of disco, platform
shoes and the
Grateful Dead, the
adage "what's old is new"
couldn't be more true.
Textile designer and archi-
tect Ruth Adler Schnee has
taken the theory a step fur-
ther back.
With the assistance of the
Unika Vaev Co., Mrs. Schnee
has recreated five of her
award-winning textile
designs for the company's
Archive Collection, showcas-
ing modernistic configura-
tions of clean lines and basic
shapes, dating from the
1940s and 1950s.
Her 1940s designs dis-
played "the modernist princi-
ple" of clean lines and func-
tional interiors developed by
architects. The 1950s
brought about a new sense
where artists like Jackson
Pollock emphasized the
means of creation as much as
the end product. Mrs. Schnee
followed the paint flinging
and dripping with intricate
batik designs.
Working out of her
Southfield home, Mrs.

Schnee continues to be con- ing was with family friend
sidered a pioneer by her and artist Paul Klee.
peers. She refers to her work
"Designing is an emotional
as "a blend of modernist and process I'll compare only to
classical solutions," and she childbirth. It's sheer agony,"
has no problem using "what Mrs. Schnee said.
worked in the past."
The re-creations and the
A Unika Vaev representa- original designs come from
tive said the company asked traffic patterns, pins and
Mrs. Schnee to recreate the needles and the look of the
modernist designs because environment, and tout such
"they are of as much use whimsical names as "Slits
today as they were in the and Slats." The eras in which
early 20th century." she developed as an artist
Appropriately enough, influenced the mediums and
Mrs. Schnee recently style.
received a call from someone
looking for a 40-year-old fab-
ric she designed for use in
reupholstering.
Trained in architecture
and space design, Mrs.
Schnee's textile works are
housed in permanent collec-
tions at the Detroit Institute
of Arts, the Chicago Art
Institute and the museums
of Cranbrook, and Victoria
and Albert in London.
Her six prizes include the
For instance, following
American Institute of World War II, fabrics were
Decorators Award, the rationed and Mrs. Schnee
Chicago Tribune Award and discovered tailors' canvas
the International Lighting was not only easier to find,
Design Award by the but had great texture, depth
Illuminating Engineering and a long, maintenance-free
Society of North America. life.
Commissions vary, from pri-
Through sixty years of
vate residences to interior designing, Mrs. Schnee has
planning and design for the seen the gamut.
social hall and small chapel
"Over the years there has
of Temple Israel in West been a move of influence
Bloomfield.
from the architects and mod-
She has worked as a visit- ernism to the artists and
ing lecturer and adjunct pro- sculptors. We've gone full cir-
fessor for various art schools cle, to the reworking of old
and was the owner, manager designs," Mrs. Schnee said.
and creative director of the "The streamlining, the mod-
store Adler/Schnee with her ernism with its aerodynamic
husband, Edward, from 1949 engineering, boxier shapes
- 1977.
and futuristic styles — 50
So when Mrs. Schnee years later, it still exudes .a
spoke to design professionals sophistication.
about her history and recent
"Despite the belief that the
re-creations in September at present is unique, we have a
Axcess in Pontiac, all eyes presence of certain styles
were focused on the German which have remained func-
native whose earliest train- tional." ❑

Mrs. Schnee refers
to her work as
"a blend of
modernist and
classical
solution."

