The influential textile designs of Jacqueline Groag (neé Hilde Pick) dominated the international design scene during the 20th century.
Born in Prague in 1903, Groag moved to Vienna in the 1920s to study textile design ultimately at the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1939, Groag and her husband, architect and interior designer Jacques Groag, fled to London from Prague following the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The couple settled in London for the remainder of their lives, and Jacqueline Groag’s designed flourished as she established herself at the forefront of the textile industry with important clients ranging from the fashion houses of Chanel, Liberty’s, and Schiaparelli to British institutions such as British Rail and London Transport.
Her designs appear on clothing to wallpaper, carpets to greeting cards, and are representative of the modernist aesthetic and austere functionalist sensibility that make each piece so uniquely hers and instantly recognisable.