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The Apparel Mart Tapestries in Dallas by Bjørn Wiinblad (open access)

The Apparel Mart Tapestries in Dallas by Bjørn Wiinblad

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 the tapestries, along with images of the illustration and the final tapestry.
Date: October 1973
Creator: Wiinblad, Bjørn
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Furniture Showroom]

Photograph of a dimly-lit furniture showroom in the Dallas World Trade Center. Couches of multiple colors and patterns are on display, each with a price tag, ranging from brown couches with tufted backrests, plain ones with three cushions and floral designs, and striped cushioned chairs. Between the couches are small end tables, decorated with unique lamps. Vases, mirrors, and flower bouquets are hung along the walls. At right, people in suits are visible talking to one another among the seats.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Registration Desk #1]

Photograph of the registration desk at the Dallas World Trade Center. People gather around a circular desk speaking to and interacting with clerks at desks with keyboards, machines, papers, and brochures. The clerks work the machines for the guests. The brochures placed around desk contain information about Dallas and the Market Center. The desk, illuminated from above by a circular metal frame with lamps, is in the World Trade Center's lobby, with tiered balconies and a tower at left with elevators.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Registration Desk #2]

Photograph of the registration desk at the Dallas World Trade Center. People gather around a circular desk speaking to and interacting with clerks at desks with keyboards, machines, papers, and brochures. The clerks work the machines for the guests. The brochures placed around desk contain information about Dallas and the Market Center. The desk, illuminated from above by a circular metal frame with lamps, is in the World Trade Center's lobby, with tiered balconies and a tower at left with elevators.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Construction Renders]

Photograph of renderings of the World Trade Center in the Dallas Trade Mart. Three illustrations of the WTC's interior, exterior, and lobby are displayed on easels, along with an information sheet at left outlining several facts of the WTC's construction and interior layout. A small model reproduction of the WTC is laid out on a table in front of the illustrations, with tiny copies of the Trade Mart and Homefurnishings Mart next to a model WTC. The information display is in the atrium of the Trade Mart, roped off on a stone floor.
Date: 1971/1972
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Lobby Seating]

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~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Post Office]

Photograph of a post office in the Dallas World Trade Center. A glass facade with glass double doors leads into the post office and its simple front desk. The room is mostly plain and undecorated, with a post office worker attending to a couple. Shelves and desks lay behind the front desk.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Travel Agency #1]

Photograph of a travel agency in the Dallas World Trade Center. It occupies a small unit with an undecorated glass facade, with an unoccupied front desk between two short walls. Each of the walls contains pictures and advertisements to other places such as Walt Disney World, Arizona, and San Francisco. Handbags, a small and blue Eiffel Tower, and a cardboard cutout of travel agents and pilots are placed along the walls. The front desk contains a potted plant and some papers. The room is illuminated by recessed light fixtures.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Travel Agency #2]

Photograph of a travel agency in the Dallas World Trade Center. It occupies a small unit with an undecorated glass facade, with an unoccupied front desk between two short walls. Each of the walls contains pictures and advertisements to other places such as France, Mexico, and Africa. Handbags, a small and blue Eiffel Tower, and a cardboard cutout of travel agents and pilots are placed along the walls. The room is illuminated by recessed light fixtures.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Sundries Shop]

Photograph of a sundries shop at the Dallas World Trade Center. From left to right are greeting cards, shelves of personal hygiene products like toothpaste and shampoo, newspapers, and cigars and cigarettes. The tobacco products are behind the cashier's desk, which has a cash register, a receipt printer, and a yellow cushioned chair. In front of the cashier's desk are shampoos, soaps, candies, mints, chocolates, other snacks, pens, and a rotating display calendars.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Apparel Hall Lobby, Registration]

Photograph of registration desks at the Dallas Apparel Mart. People shuffle into and walk around a large lobby room, which has chairs and signs for visitors. At center is a table covered by a white tablecloth, attended by employees with plaid shirts. They interact with visitors and reach into boxes adjacent to their chairs.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Apparel Mart Docks]

Photograph of the docks at the Apparel Mart. Depicted is a large storage room with platform trucks and dollies situated in a niche at center, and stacks of lumber and boxes at right alongside the entrance for a shipping and receiving office. Two workers stand next to the platform trucks, one walking towards the back of the room, where there is an entrance to the post office.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Apparel Mart Elevators]

Photograph of elevators in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. The elevator at right is open, and the one at left, partially obscured, is closed. A sign above the elevator button points directions towards the "market time check-in desk" on the fourth floor and the "post office".
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Apparel Mart Exhibition Showroom]

Photograph of a showroom in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. At right, several people show multicolored gowns and dresses to producers with papers seated at tables in front of them. A similar group of producers and industrialists listen to a man in a plaid suit talking in front of their table. The room is decorated with potted plants, chandeliers, and small paper posters.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Apparel Mart Showroom, Mirror Room #2]

Photograph of a showroom in the Apparel Hall at the Dallas Market Center. At center, two women, one dressed in a floral gown and another holding out a red shirt, are flanked by people in formal wear seated in chairs and holding clipboards. At right is an extensive closet featuring women's clothing in various sizes and colors, aside a wall printed with a large poster featuring women in floral body suits. At left is a woman, seated at a small table with a pen, a newspaper, and an ashtray. The room's ceiling and left wall are reflective and mirror-like.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Boy at Apparel Mart]

Photograph of a boy posing for a photograph in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. He stands in front of a large potted plant, several tables occupied by other guests conversing, and a large complex decorative display of plywood and mirrors arranged diagonally in layers and shaped like rectangles, lines, and trapezoids. Tiered open-air balconies decorated with plants and couches are visible at left with metal handrails and doors from higher floors.
Date: 1974-08~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Apparel Mart Salon]

Photograph of a salon in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. A man, seated in a salon chair, has his left hand manicured by an employee as he reads a magazine in his lap. A ornately-framed mirror, a Dallas Cowboys helmet, and a portrait of the Apollo 11 astronauts are mounted on the wall. At right is another wall of mirrors, revealing another visitor reading a Life magazine.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Apparel Mart Showroom, Mirror Room #1]

Photograph of a showroom in the Apparel Hall at the Dallas Market Center. At center, two women, one dressed in a floral gown and another holding out a red shirt, are flanked by people in formal wear seated in chairs and holding clipboards. At right is an extensive closet featuring women's clothing in various sizes and colors, aside a wall printed with a large poster featuring women in floral body suits. At left is a woman, seated at a small table with a pen, a newspaper, and an ashtray. The room's ceiling and left wall are reflective and mirror-like.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Apparel Mart Hallway]

Photograph of a crowded hallway in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. The hallway, dimly lit with white light, is lined with clothing shops and is dense with visitors at the very back. A spectacled man holding a booklet enters the hallway at far left.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Apparel Mart Home Furnishings Display]

Photograph of a display of home furnishings in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. Two men in suits, standing around a glass table with four yellow chairs adjoining, talk and gesticulate to a woman seated in front of them. The room model is decorated with a cabinet at center, small counters at left and right, paintings, potted plants, and a chandelier hanging from the low ceiling.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Apparel Mart Office Hallways]

Photograph of a hallway leading to business offices in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. A sign on the front wall at center refers to "men's hair styling". At right is an elevated chair with a footrest, placed on a platform with cups, bottles, and a floor mat. Below the platform are normal red and yellow chairs.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Apparel Mart Escalators]

Photograph of escalators in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. At center is a pair of two large escalators for ascending and descending to and from an upper floor. Another escalator, heading down to a lower floor is partially visible behind to the right. At the far end of the wall is a painting, a potted plant, and at left is a store display with mannequins wearing dresses.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Homefurnishing Mart Furniture Showroom]

Photograph of a furniture showroom in the Homefurnishing Mart at the Dallas Market Center. This showroom has thin white walls separating different parts of the area, each area showcasing more furniture. The area at center contains a black couch and seat with a wide and short endtable centered around a white table and a hexagonal blue rug at center left, a Lawson sofa with a printed plant design matched with a small, round endtable at bottom left, and a large beige couch and loveseat with a floral-print armchair with a wide glass coffee table and a red, rectangular rug. Each table is decorated with lamps of various sizes and colors, as well as ashtrays, plates, candles, and flower vases. Paintings and framed prints are hung on the wall. Another area behind the walls leads to another part of the showroom with blue furniture.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Homefurnishing Mart Fireplace Display]

Photograph of a fireplace display in the Homefurnishing Mart, alongside two businessmen in conversation. One at left holds a office pad, and the other at right gestures towards it. They stand between red-orange armchairs and a large white sofa with plant prints on it. A large stone fireplace is behind them, with firewood and a small wooden shelf with a model figure and a plaque above the mantel. Dining tables, framed wall pictures, and flower pots are tucked in the right corner of the room, while a small shelf with books and glassware is to the left of the white sofa along the bottom.
Date: 1960~/1979~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History