American Institute of Architects. She also received prizes and awards from Lord & Taylor, the Paris Exposition, and the Architectural League. In 1948, she received an honorary degree from Mills College and the Elsie de Wolfe Award. Death Due to a heart condition, Dorothy Liebes semi-retired in 1971. She died in New York City on September 20, 1972. Legacy Her work is held in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. References 1897 births 1972 deaths American interior designers American weavers People from Santa Rosa, California American textile designers American women interior designers 20th-century American women artists Women textile artists