Dorothy Liebes: Designer of Many Talents and Disciplines Gets Her Just Due in Cooper Hewitt Exhibition

NEW YORK — The industriousness of one of America’s most accomplished multidisciplinary designers, Dorothy Liebes, is on full display at a new exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum here.

As a textile designer, weaver and color authority, she collaborated with such talents as Bonnie Cashin, Adrian, Frank Lloyd Wright, Raymond Loewy and Samuel Marx from the 1930s to the ’60s. Working across sectors, Liebes had a…