RE: PEACOCK

I’m going to have to disagree with you on this one Peggy. Florence Broadhurst (1899-1977) was no minimalist.

“She combined fuscia pinks, lemon yellows, lime greens, vivid oranges, turquoise, blacks, metallic silvers, and gold–all perfectly matching her own flamboyant personality. Florence Broadhurst printed onto transparent mylars, foils, and metallic papers. She called her revolutionary handprinted creations, ‘vigorous designs for modern living.’”

Her peacock feathers fabric is indeed black and white, but up against her other collections, the lack of color becomes quite daring. But if it’s colored peacocks you are looking for, it is color peacocks you shall receive.

RE: PEACOCK

Paige, you’re right - peacocks have been a motif in Indian design for centuries - both in the iridescent colors and the feather shapes. Then those tired old English Victorians took over the look and in every proper Victorian parlor you would see dusty peacock feathers in some dark and gloomy corner. Leave it to us 21st c. design minimalists to leave the shape and take the color away. I don’t know, it’s kind of like fire without red, or the sun without yellow.