The second of five children, Kaffe Fassett was born on December 7,1937, in San Francisco, California, to parents William and Madeleine, who built the successful Nepenthe in Big Sur, California.
11 Facts About Kaffe Fassett
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Kaffe Fassett is the great-grandson of the wealthy businessman, lawyer and United States Congressman Jacob Sloat Fassett, and it was his great-great grandparents who founded the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.
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Kaffe Fassett received a scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at the age of 19, but shortly left school to paint in London and moved there to live in 1964.
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Until Gibb's premature death in 1988, they were very close friends and design collaborators, with Kaffe Fassett creating many of the multicolored, complex knitwear designs that became one of Gibbs's trademarks.
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When one of Bill Gibbs designs was chosen by Beatrix Miller of Vogue as the 1970 Dress of the Year, the ensemble included a Kaffe Fassett hand-knitted waistcoat, showing that traditional textile handicrafts had become an acceptable aspect of mainstream fashion.
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Kaffe Fassett was a supplier of tapestries to Women's Home Industries and its designer Beatrice Bellini, attracting a number of private commissions and creating tapestry kits for the company during the 1970s.
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Kaffe Fassett went on to design tapestry kits for Hugh Ehrman.
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An exhibition of Kaffe Fassett's quilts, knitting and needlepoint at the Mode museum Tassel, Belgium in 2007, followed a multimedia solo show in 2006 at the Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, Sweden.
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Kaffe Fassett made a workshop tour of Australia and New Zealand.
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Kaffe Fassett designed a tactile installation for visitors to touch so that they would get a better understanding of the structure behind his work.
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Kaffe Fassett is a fabric designer for Free Spirit Fabrics and a knitwear designer for Rowan Yarns.