For Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s digital scholarship platform on textile designer Dorothy Liebes, I analyzed the use of Liebes’s textiles to convey character and tone in the 1949 film East Side, West Side. Read the essay on the platform.
Interior of the Del Rio nightclub featuring a Dorothy Liebes panel in East Side, West Side, 1949; Directed by Mervyn LeRoy (American, 1900–1987); Art Direction by Randall Duell (American, 1903–1992) and Cedric Gibbons (American, 1890–1960); Set decoration by Edwin B. Willis (American, 1893–1963); Textiles designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes (American, 1897–1972); Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Beverly Hills, California, USA); Via Prime VideoUpholstery of a couch and pillow in the interior of Isabel Lorrison’s apartment in East Side, West Side, 1949; Directed by Mervyn LeRoy (American, 1900–1987); Art Direction by Randall Duell (American, 1903–1992) and Cedric Gibbons (American, 1890–1960); Set decoration by Edwin B. Willis (American, 1893–1963); Textiles designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes (American, 1897–1972); Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Beverly Hills, California, USA); Via Prime Video
Matthew J. Kennedy 
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