Peter McCulloch Project 1968 Textile Art – Mid Century Modern Framed Wall Art

Peter McCulloch — Project, 1968. Original screen-printed cotton furnishing fabric for Heal's Fabrics Ltd, London. This exact design is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Art Institute of Chicago — where it sits alongside works by Lucienne Day, Eduardo Paolozzi, John Piper, and Howard Hodgkin. Professionally stretched over a new wooden frame. 102 cm × 69 cm. Excellent vintage condition.

A design in two world-class museum collections

Peter McCulloch was born in 1933 and studied at Glasgow School of Art before teaching at the Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall and establishing himself as one of the most distinctive British textile designers of the 1960s. His work for Heal's incorporated contrasting colours in patterns that evoked the language of printed circuitry — the circuitboard, the technical diagram, the architectural plan — translated into fabric with a graphic confidence that was entirely of its moment and has only grown in cultural resonance since. Project is one of his finest designs for the house: bold, structured, rhythmically complex, and unmistakably 1968.

Heal's and the golden era of British textile design

Heal's commissioned an extraordinary roster of designers during the 1960s — Lucienne Day, Barbara Brown, Shirley Craven, Eddie Squires — producing screen-printed cotton furnishing fabrics that are now among the most collected pieces of British post-war design. Original Heal's fabrics from this period are increasingly scarce, and examples in display-quality condition, professionally framed for wall presentation, are rarer still.

This piece has been handcrafted using rare, original vintage Heal's fabric — Woven and Printed in England — stretched professionally over a newly constructed wooden frame, transforming a collectible furnishing fabric into a gallery-quality textile artwork.

The design

McCulloch's bold composition uses rhythmic geometry and refined colour to create a surface that rewards sustained attention — the pattern builds and resolves across the picture plane with the confidence of a designer who understood both the textile tradition and the visual language of the decade. The colours remain beautifully rich and well-preserved, a testament to the quality of Heal's screen-printing at its peak.

Specifications

Condition

Excellent vintage condition. Colours remain rich and vibrant. As with all genuine vintage textiles, subtle age-related characteristics may be present — consistent with a piece of this age and entirely in keeping with its authentic vintage character.

A genuine piece of British design history — owned by the world's great museums and now available for your wall.

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