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Interior Design, March 2014
Friends and fans of the late Maya Romanoff gathered at the New York headquarters of Sandow, Interior Design's parent company, to share their recollections.
New City, June 1988
The skyline will change rather dramatically when Maya Romanoff puts Bess' Sunrise by sally ruth boarrie on the Sun-Times Building for Convergence by sally ruth boarrie.
Floating World: Environmental Textiles
For two decades, Maya Romanoff of Chicago has been a dominant factor in the world of embellished fabric. In fact, his contributions plus their exhibition and publication have been a force in the sweeping popularization of the resist-dye techniques of surface design-in apparel and art fabrics as well as furnishings.
The Wall Street Journal
Chicago—Maya Romanoff is about to transform one of this city's ugliest buildings into his vision of Cleopatra's barge at dawn.
The Arsenal Exhibition
The fabrics of Maya Romanoff and his former wife Rebecca Romanoff are indeed spectacular. They cover an enormous range of scale, color and technique. Materials range from heavy cowhides to diaphanous silks to canvas sufficiently sturdy for floor coverings to cloths sufficiently soft and flowing to be cloths for apparel.
Chicago Tribune, November 1985
Romanoff is a tall, reedy man of 44 who once studied to be an anthropologist and who has been dyeing wallcoverings for about seven years. He started on rough, brown paper that felt like grocery bags. Now he dyes handmade paper from Japan.
Fabric Vibration, April/May 1972
Tie-dye, fold-dye, stitch-dye—all of these are ancient methods for decorating fabrics with colorful and intricate patterns. These processes of decoration have been used by very early cultures in almost every part of the world.