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Wallpaper Designs Biogoraphy

Long before the film "The Graduate" would make it a buzzword, "plastics" was the medium in which Joan Luntz created. For five decades, the designs she oversaw from her studio of artists expanded into wallpaper and drapes, place mats and china, bed sheets and beach towels, scarves and ties.

"Designs by Joan Luntz Inc." was a business that penetrated the American housewares and home-decor market yet began and remained in Shaker Heights.

Starting in the early 1950s, you could find Luntz, a rare career woman in that era, making monthly visits to Manhattan. She carried a zippered black canvas portfolio -- it weighed about 20 pounds -- of sample patterns under her arm as she called on art directors and executives at companies such as Wamsutta, Mikasa and JCPenney, in midtown.

"Back then, it was just me and Lois Wyse," Luntz says, referring to the Cleveland advertising maven and, later, author. "We'd run into each other at parties, and we'd talk and talk, because we were the only two working women we knew. The other women just thought I had a hobby."

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