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"Textile pioneer Jack Lenor Larsen and landscape guru Thomas L. Woltz are men whose innovative, distinguished careers have been celebrated with professional accolades. Each will receive another well-deserved helping of praise on April 18, when the New York School of Interior Design honors each at its annual spring benefit, at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan.\n\nTextile pioneer Jack Lenor Larsen and landscape guru Thomas L. Woltz are men whose innovative, distinguished careers have been celebrated with professional accolades. Each will receive another well-deserved helping of praise on April 18, when the New York School of Interior Design honors each at its annual spring benefit, at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan.\n\nPinterestFacebook\n\nThe Seattle-born, Cranbrook-educated Larsen, the recipient of the NYSID's Lifetime Achievement Award, brought the wonders of far-away textiles into American homes with handmade fabrics inspired by ikat, batik, and other traditional techniques. Initially he studied to be an architect; he told The New York Times in 1955, \"After a while, though, I discovered I liked working directly with materials rather than putting ideas on paper and letting others execute them, so I went into the studio of a handweaver.\" Soon he brought two handlooms to New York City, where, in 1952, he founded his influential eponymous fabric firm, now a division of Cowtan &amp;amp; Tout.\n\nPinterestFacebook\n\nDespite the genius of his work, Larsen was not fully embraced by the cognoscenti. Furniture designer Florence Knoll, for instance, initially considered his gutsy tweeds, velvets, vinyls, cotton damasks, and the like\u2014some of which he made into clothes for himself and others (Marilyn Monroe was a client)\u2014far too untamed for her sleek vision of modernism. But she eventually became a fan, as did architect Marcel Breuer and interior designer Benjamin Baldwin.\n\nPinterestFacebook\n\nWoltz, a principal in Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in New York City and Charlottesville, Virginia, will receive NYSID's first annual Thomas N. Armstrong III Award in Landscape Design. The mastermind of private and public properties from Jamaica (the posh Round Hill resort) to Venice (the Peggy Guggenheim Sculpture Garden), Woltz doesn't just create gardens for strolling, admiring, and cutting flowers. In addition to their poetic good looks, his romantic narrative installations also address everything from stewardship of cultural landscapes to sensitive use of natural resources. \"Landscapes can do jobs,\" he said last month at a lecture at Wave Hill in the Bronx. \"A garden can have meaning and provide ecological services.\"\n\nFor more information on the New York School of Interior Design benefit and to purchase tickets, visit nysid.edu."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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