The expanses of glass in Modernist office buildings called for a new type of curtain, with "small motif prints that create a rhythm and visual interest but don't distract from the coherence of the room," Martin said.
In one room, for example, a display case containing perfume bottles was matched by a dress in a perfume-motif print from the London designer Mary Katrantzou's autumn 2009 collection.
The industrial-chic interior design is highlighted by an entire wall lined with glass bottles containing hand written messages, and oyster motifs printed on the floor tiles.
There were Kokopelli sconces, a Kokopelli tissue box cozy, hand soap dispenser and a Kokopelli motif framed print.
Menus with colorful folk motifs were printed for feasts of turtle soup and truffled chicken.
By 2004 Mr. Guyton was enlarging these motifs and printing them on canvas, making paintings that are rife with ghosts.
Mr. Wool and Katherine Brinson, the Guggenheim curator responsible for the show, have taken care to juggle works in ways that encourage us to see distinctions among them, juxtaposing the same motifs in printed and painted form that stand alone or are buried between layers of other patterns and images.
Giles Deacon's clothes can look a little campy; this season he used everyday objects like wrenches and Band-Aids as motifs for prints and accessories or for clusters of frills on dresses that verged on the tackiness of a beauty pageant.
Many felt that this bleak ending had been where his story was heading all along: when he died, McQueen scarves with a skull print motif sold out all over the world.
As we stroll around the gallery, Waters in his pencilled-on moustache and a jacket with a skulls and flowers print motif, we can hear the voices of children.
To give Peter Rabbit tattoos and a beanie hat, or to replace Mrs Tiggy Winkle's apron and bonnet with a stylised print motif, misunderstands the joy that so many of us found in Beatrix Potter's stories when we were growing up.
