
Marion Dorn
Born in San Francisco. Educated at Stanford University. Came to England in 1924 and worked as a freelance designer of textiles and carpets, which Warner & Sons purchased. She married the graphic artist Edward McKnight Kauffer. She founded her own firm, Marion Dorn Ltd, to supply rugs and textiles for interior decoration, with Warner & Sons manufacturing some of her designs. She returned to the USA in 1940 and continued to design textiles. Some of these were bought and produced by Greeff Fabrics, New York. She moved to Tangier in the early 1960s and lived there until her death in 1964.