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Intro | Textile designer | |
is | Designer | |
Work field | Arts Creativity | |
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Birth | 1928 | |
Age | 97 years |
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Audrey Levy was born in the city of Nottingham, England (1928-) . She studied textiles at a young age and graduated from the Royal College of Art . She received the Council of Industrial Design's (CoID) ‘Design of the Year’ twice, the first time for a screen painted wallpaper she did for The Wall Paper Manufacturers Ltd (WPM), and a year later for the ‘Phantom Rose’ design she did for the Palladio Scheme . She also contributed to Palladio with her skeletal leaf pattern . For Palladio 3 she created murals such as Maze and Treescape, as well as smaller, textual patterns such as Pebble .
She also designed a pattern for T G Green & Co. Ltd in 1959, a pottery company . She helped judge the Design Centre Awards in 1964 together with, journalist Katherine Whitehorn, architect and designer Neville Ward, and [[George Williams[disambiguation needed], George Williams, Chief Executive of the British Railways Design Panel. She was a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers . Her work is displayed as a permanent collection at the Whitworth Art Gallery . The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture also holds a number of examples of her wallpapers.