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The Apparel Mart Tapestries in Dallas by Bjørn Wiinblad

Description: Series of folded pages that describe the tapestries commissioned to hang in the great hall of the Dallas Apparel Mart, based on the Arabian Nights stories. The first page provides background, with the handwritten text of the letter written by artist Bjørn Wiinblad describing the inspiration for the images; the second page discusses the process and shows images of the illustration versus the tapestry. The other pages provide text from the Arabian Nights for each of the five themes selected for… more
Date: October 1973
Creator: Wiinblad, Bjørn
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[World Trade Center Press Room, Front View]

Description: Photograph of a press room in the Dallas World Trade Center, viewed looking down the front. Three rows of canvas chairs are fanned out on an orange-brown carpet, facing a center trapezoidal space painted blue. The space has room for a desk or a podium, and two small stage-like lights shine from the ceiling onto the space. A large badge with the text "Dallas Market Center", as well as a logotype at left, is posted in the center of the space.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803148 -96.824553
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[World Trade Center Press Room, Corner View]

Description: Photograph of a press room in the Dallas World Trade Center, viewed looking from a corner. Three rows of canvas chairs are fanned out on an orange-brown carpet, facing a center trapezoidal space painted blue, visible at left. The space has room for a desk or a podium, and two small stage-like lights shine from the ceiling onto the space. A large badge with the text "Dallas Market Center", as well as a logotype to the left of the text, is posted in the center of the space. A painting of the Trad… more
Date: 1974~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803148 -96.824553
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[World Trade Center Lobby Seating]

Description: Photograph of seating in the lobby of the Dallas World Trade Center. Brown couches lacking armrests are arranged around an open space with simple dark gray tables. Along one wall is a textured pattern of vertical and horizontal wooden strips. The space is decorated by potted plants in the corner. The larger lobby can be seen beyond the space, with beds for small trees and balconies lined with rose bushes and vines.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803148 -96.824553
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[World Trade Center Exterior]

Description: Photograph of the entrance to the Dallas World Trade Center. The WTC's canopy entrance is at center in the picture, with some cars parked under and around it. The WTC's exterior is made of out of a textured material, with a large tiled window rising from the center of the canopy to the top of the building, which is lined with a plain white frieze. The WTC is depicted here before its 1979 expansion to fifteen floors.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.802082 -96.825277
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[World Trade Center Entrance Canopy]

Description: Photograph of the entrance canopy to the Dallas World Trade Center, made of smooth wide concrete. The words "World Trade Center" emerge in relief along the front-facing segment of the canopy in large sans-serif text. Pillars extend from the canopy to the bottom. The textured walls and the plain white frieze of the World Trade Center is visible across the background. People stand under and around the canopy.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.802239 -96.825132
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Trade Mart Lobby, Fourth Floor View]

Description: Photograph of the Trade Mart lobby, as viewed from the fourth floor balcony. Floating walkways, connecting balconies from opposite sides of the atrium, hang on wires attached to the ceiling. Under the ceiling and above the fourth-floor wall are curved lights. Along the balconies are textured stone walls and hanging plants placed on the handrails. Below, on the ground floor, an array of tables has been laid out, with white tablecloths. The tables appear unfurnished; people walk between the table… more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803545 -96.826484
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Dallas Trade Mart Front Entrance, Side View]

Description: Photograph of the front facade of the Dallas Trade Mart. The front entrance is covered by a concrete canopy, perpendicular to the building. Above the canopy is a beige-colored latticed stone element, bolted onto the front of the building, with serif text besides reading "DALLAS TRADE MART". The roof of the Trade Mart hangs over the side of the entire beige structure, with a short line of windows at the very top of the Trade Mart. To the left and right are the beige wings of the building. Trees,… more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.802600 -96.826429
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Trade Mart Registration Desk, Front View #2]

Description: Photograph of the registration desk for the Dallas Trade Mart, as viewed from the front. Two individuals, a woman and a man, stand in front of the desk, where a security guard, desk workers, and other Trade Mart employees are standing behind. A sign is pasted over the desk, atop the railing below the ceiling, and text is written on the side of an escalator behind the desk. Two latticed stone wall dividers are placed on either side of the registration desk. A high round glass table with a golden… more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.802993 -96.826202
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Dallas Trade Mart, Front Exterior]

Description: Photograph of the front exterior of the Dallas Trade Mart. The main part of the building, where the entrance is located, is the elevated terracotta-colored section at center, decorated with a plain white frieze and a textured rectangular element on the building's side. The signage "DALLAS TRADE MART" is placed here. At left and right, the building is shorter and uses a patterned square stone wall with windows at the intersections of the squares. Trees and hedges line the building, and a parking… more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.802155 -96.825706
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Trade Mart Registration Desk, Front View #1]

Description: Photograph of the registration desk for the Dallas Trade Mart, as viewed from the front. Two individuals, a woman and a man, stand in front of the desk, where a security guard, desk workers, and other Trade Mart employees are standing behind. A sign is pasted over the desk, atop the railing below the ceiling, and text is written on the side of an escalator behind the desk. Two latticed stone wall dividers are placed on either side of the registration desk. A high round glass table with a golden… more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.802993 -96.826202
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Market Hall Sign, Ground View #2]

Description: Photograph of the Market Hall sign, as viewed from in front of the Market Hall building, looking westward. The sign is set upon six tall, white, and narrow stilts, holding a wide and short sign with a digital display which currently reads "MARKET CENTER CONVENTION CENTER". The four center stilts extend past the bottom sign to support another, less wide sign, which bears the text "MARKET HALL". The sign's stilts are planted on grass, among bushes, short trees, and shrubs.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.802532 -96.828032
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[American Academy of General Practice Convention]

Description: Photograph of a speech being given at a convention of the American Academy of General Practice. The speaker stands in front of a podium at center, flanked by desks. The back wall is shrouded with blue curtains, and above the stage is text reading "AMERICAN ACADEMY OF GENERAL PRACTICE / [?] ANNUAL CONVENTION & SCIENTIFIC ASSEMBLY". The six flags of Texas are displayed below the text, along with a rectangular flag at center. The audience is seated in long rows of chairs that span the convention's… more
Date: 1960~/1971~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803256 -96.829365
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Market Hall Lunch Event]

Description: Photograph of a large room inside the Market Hall decorated for a lunch event. Rows of round tables have been arranged in the room, each with a handful of plastic chairs adjoining. Each table, decorated with white and striped red tablecloths has a several balloons attached to balloon holders in the center of the table. At the end of the room, along the wall in the background, is a drawing of a longhorn head with the text "HOWDY PARDNER" on the left horn and "WELCOME TO BIG "ED"[?]" on the right… more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803256 -96.829365
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Market Hall Sign, Under Canopy]

Description: Photograph of the Market Hall sign from under the canopy of the covered driveway. The canopy is set on with pillars with arched capitals. A sidewalk runs between the Market Hall building at left and the driveway at right, with hedges along the concrete and ivy growing on the walls at left. The Market Hall sign, set on six thin pillars, is visible in the background. The text, partially obscured reads "[MAR]KET HALL SALE JULY". Above the digital sign is another sign, blue and bearing the text "MA… more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.802689 -96.828843
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Market Hall Sign, Ground View #1]

Description: Photograph of the Market Hall sign, as viewed from in front of the Market Hall building, looking westward. The sign is set upon six tall, white, and narrow stilts, holding a wide and short sign with a digital display which currently reads "MARKET CENTER CONVENTION CENTER". The four center stilts extend past the bottom sign to support another, less wide sign, which bears the text "MARKET HALL". The sign's stilts are planted on grass, among bushes, short trees, and shrubs.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.802532 -96.828032
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Red Showroom, Homefurnishing Mart #2]

Description: Photograph of a red-themed showroom in the Dallas Homefurnishing Mart. Two businessmen talk in the room, one holding an office pad and a pen, and the other gesturing. The room has low walls with a textured red wallpaper, white molding, and an arch leading to another room. China decorated with profiles is displayed on the wall behind the businessmen with a red cabinet decorated with a potted plant below. A mahogany coffee table with a vase of roses is arranged adjacent to a light-brown sofa and … more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803017 -96.822933
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Homefurnishing Mart, Buyers Passes Desk #1]

Description: Photograph of front desks at the Homefurnishing Mart. People are gathered in front of it, interacting with desk workers with machines placed in front of them. Signs and lamps hang from above the desk; the signs read "BUYERS PASSES" at left and right and "Please... HAVE PLASTIC PASS AND DRIVERS LICENSE READY FOR IDENTIFICATION" at center. A small potted plant and pamphlets are set upon the desk, at left. The wall is textured, with a pattern of white bricks arranged around a protruding brick in a… more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803017 -96.822933
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Homefurnishing Mart Front Desks #2]

Description: Photograph of front desks at the Dallas Homefurnishing Mart. The desks are at left, along a black counter and in front of textured walls. Three people behind the desk, one at right watching a man standing in front of it. Lamps and signs hang from the ceiling, directly above the desk. Paintings are hung behind the desk workers. A planter with ferns and yellow flowers is arranged around a structural pillar at center-right. Counters and signs above doorways are in the background, at right.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803017 -96.822933
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Homefurnishing Mart Front Desks #1]

Description: Photograph of front desks at the Dallas Homefurnishing Mart. The desks are at left, along a black counter and in front of textured walls. Three people behind the desk, one at right watching a man standing in front of it. Lamps and signs hang from the ceiling, directly above the desk. Paintings are hung behind the desk workers. A planter with ferns and yellow flowers is arranged around a structural pillar at center-right. Counters and signs above doorways are in the background, at right.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803017 -96.822933
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Homefurnishing Mart, Buyers Passes Desk #2]

Description: Photograph of front desks at the Homefurnishing Mart. People are gathered in front of it, interacting with desk workers with machines placed in front of them. Signs and lamps hang from above the desk; the signs read "BUYERS PASSES" at left and right and "Please... HAVE PLASTIC PASS AND DRIVERS LICENSE READY FOR IDENTIFICATION" at center. A small potted plant and pamphlets are set upon the desk, at left. The wall is textured, with a pattern of white bricks arranged around a protruding brick in a… more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803017 -96.822933
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Homefurnishing Mart, Entrance Processing]

Description: Photograph of the front entrance to the Dallas Homefurnishing Mart. A low gate is at center, with a woman tagging a plastic pass to her shirt. At right, in front of the gate, is a security guard behind a desk, watching visitors come through. The service desk that distributes passes is at right, behind the gate; people are at the desk, interacting with the desk workers for passes. Plants and shelves are to the left of the gate. The wall is textured with white bricks, and the room is illuminated … more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803017 -96.822933
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Red Showroom, Homefurnishing Mart #1]

Description: Photograph of a red-themed showroom in the Dallas Homefurnishing Mart. Two businessmen talk in the room, one holding an office pad and a pen, and the other gesturing. The room has low walls with a textured red wallpaper, white molding, and an arch leading to another room. China decorated with profiles is displayed on the wall behind the businessmen with a red cabinet decorated with a potted plant below. A mahogany coffee table with a vase of roses is arranged adjacent to a light-brown sofa and … more
Date: 1960~/1979~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803017 -96.822933
Partner: Dallas Market Center
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