Kaffe fassett biography
Kaffe fassett biography
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Kaffe Fassett
American fashion designer
Frank Havrah "Kaffe" Fassett, MBE (born December 7, ) is an American-born, British-based artist who is best known for his colourful designs in the decorative arts—needlepoint, patchwork, knitting, painting and ceramics.[2] While still a child, Fassett renamed himself after an Egyptian boy character from the book Boy of the Pyramid by Ruth Fosdick Jones.[3] His name rhymes with 'safe asset'.[4]
Early life
The second of five children, Fassett was born on December 7, , in San Francisco, California,[5] to parents William and Madeleine, who built the successful Nepenthe in Big Sur, California.[6] He is the great-grandson of the wealthy businessman, lawyer and United States Congressman Jacob Sloat Fassett, and it was his great-great grandparents who founded the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.
He received a scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at the a