caption age death_date death_place birth_place credits birth_date gender image article_title name occupation
marianne straub marianne straub textile designer.jpg 08 november 1994 berlingen , switzerland . amriswil , switzerland royal black medal -lrb- 1993 -rrb- , obe designer for industry -lrb- 1972 -rrb- ; misha 23 september 1909 female marianne straub textile designer.jpg marianne straub
 marianne straub textile designer , academic
marianne straub

marianne straub obe -lrb- 23 september 1909-8 november 1994 -rrb- was one of the leading commercial designers of textiles in britain in the period from the 1940s to 1960s .
she said her overriding aim was : `` to design things which people could afford .
... to remain a handweaver did not seem satisfactory in this age of mass-production '' .
linda parry , curator of modern textiles at the victoria and albert museum , described her in 1990 as one of two or three british artists who used their great ability to serve industry .
although she became a leading name in industrial design -- creating upholstery for everything from london underground to bea aircraft -- she almost always developed her ideas on a handloom before applying her technical knowhow to their manufacture .
she believed that if more designers tried out their ideas first , there would be fewer bad results .
