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David Hicks

Updated Apr 13, 2006

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Pop quiz. Was this London living room completed yesterday or 35 years ago? Look carefully: oversized geometric–pattern carpet, a boldly modern sofa covered in raw silk and flanked by Empire bookcases, and a plain sheet of mirror topping a Regency fireplace mantel.
If you chose 1971, go to the head of the class. This was just one of innumerable spaces designed by David Hicks (1929–1998), arguably the most influential designer of his generation. Hicks was one of the first to create deliberately photogenic rooms. No wonder his client list included equally close-up–ready clients such as John Schlesinger, Helena Rubinstein, Vidal Sassoon and the Prince of Wales.
Indeed, Hicks’s dynamic mix of antique and modern pieces has a deceptively contemporary ring. Designers including Jonathan Adler, Kelly Wearstler, Muriel Brandolini and Tom Ford—young guns who learned his coveted look pouring over the 11 books Hicks authored in his lifetime—have adopted his signature style. Hicks’s second coming is due partly to the work of his son, Ashley Hicks, who designs new collections of carpet and fabric inspired by his father’s designs for Lee Jofa and Saxony Carpet. (via Elements of Living)

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Terratex

Updated Apr 13, 2006

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Is your newest designer sofa made of corn? Interface, Inc., the maker of the ecocarpet Flor, has recently introduced an eco-friendly commercial fabric called Terratex, and many large textile and furniture manufacturers, including Knoll and Herman Miller, are using it. In fact, Knoll worked with Terratex to produce the fabric for the Essential Work Chair by Jeffrey Bernett, which made its debut at NeoCon 2005.
Terratex, originally made from recycled soda bottles and polyester plastic resin, has now introduced bio-based fibers into the mix. Bio-base is made from thermoplastic fibers (PLA), which, in turn, are made from corn, potatoes, soybeans and other starch-based agricultural waste products. Although, consumers can’t buy Terratex fabrics directly, they can purchase an assortment of products—everything from furniture and fabrics to wall panels and carpets—that contain it. In addition to Knoll and Herman Miller, Terratex works with HON, DesignTex, Jhane Barnes, Luna Textiles, Momentum, Carnegie and Allsteel. (Terratex isn’t always indicated on the label, so query a sales associate or consult the Terratex website [www.terratex.com]).
Interface uses alternative-energy systems in its factories and is trying to find new methods to save water, reduce emissions and waste, and eliminate harmful substances from products.
One new company initiative is a program called ReSKU, whereby manufacturers who use Terratex in furniture and textiles send back their old products to be recycled. It is good to know companies are teaming up to make products that are good for both the environment and our health. (via Elements of Living)

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Hokanson Luxury Carpets

Updated May 26, 2006

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It may sound like characters from the latest action-adventure film, but we’re actually talking about the staff of the Hokanson custom carpet factory in Waterloo, Canada. Founded in 1992, it is one of only two privately-owned, major factories in North America devoted solely to manufacturing custom rugs and carpets. It is owned by Texas-based Larry Hokanson and managed by Maureen Catherwood. Together, they insure the very best in quality, production time and shipping. With the factory being in North America, staff and clients are always welcome to visit to experience the custom rug industry.
Highly trained craftspeople bring their exceptional skills and knowledge to this 27,000 square foot world class facility. There is an on-site dye house and dye master with an exacting eye to provide expert color matching. State-of-the-art technology allows the marking department to take color renderings for each rug and superimpose the full scale design to the cotton backing. Hokanson’s hand tufters, or “gunners”, skillfully hand gun row after row of silk and wool yarn to create the rugs. They go through an extensive apprenticeship program and after 7 years become master tufters creating breathtaking works of art. The final step in creating a Hokanson rug involves the finishers. They meticulously hand-shear, clip and at times carve the rug for a look of perfection. Hokanson’s factory employees come from all over the world, and have helped develop cutting-edge techniques in the hand tufted industry. Hokanson has built their quality process on each individual employee taking personal interest and pride in every rug and carpet they create.
The work ethic of this team, and the dedicated sales staff and artists in their showrooms across the United States, ensures the continued excellence and lasting beauty of all Hokanson rugs and carpets. (via Elements of Living)

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Design Within Reach

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Joel Mozersky’s transformation of an empty warehouse in downtown Austin into the latest set for MTV’s <i>Real World</i> required nothing less than the ability to turn on a dime. He immediately turned to dwr.com, the website for the catalog and retail store Design Within Reach. “The project was time sensitive in the extreme,” says the local Texas designer, “and I knew that dwr.com would have the modern, really interesting pieces I needed, in stock and ready to ship.” Mozersky’s confidence was well placed: Three weeks after he presented his ideas to MTV, the fully furnished spaces were ready for the cameras to roll on the sixteenth season of the popular reality show.
“Prior to DWR, you would either have to have access to trade-only merchants or order retail and wait up to twelve weeks,” says Jordan Benjamin, a manager at Design Within Reach, which features such classic design names as Ray and Charles Eames, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, George Nelson and Marcel Breuer. Luckily for Mozersky and other modern-furniture lovers, DWR’s business model is borrowed from Europe, says founder Rob Forbes, where “furniture design is taken more seriously and the public has greater access to well-designed products.” With DWR, that concept has come across the Atlantic and, now, straight into the heart of Texas. (via Elements of Living)

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Rugman.com

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Kashmar persian, Indo-Tibetan, Gabbeh tribal. Rugman.com features more than 12,000 examples of braided, fringed and weft-faced woven floor coverings representing a full range of traditional and modern styles and construction techniques. Besides its meticulous attention to detailing a product’s features, the site includes a visualization tool for consumers to better understand how a potential purchase would show against slate, marble, wood or other materials. Presenting multiple flooring options is just one advantage the seven-year-old website has over bricks-and-mortar shops. The other? As much as an 80 percent discount off full retail. (via Elements of Living)

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Moss

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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If you’re interested in finding museum-quality design objects in a retail setting, head to Moss on Greene Street in New York City. Here, you’ll find icons of twentieth-century design along with with the best of what’s current. In the 10 years since it opened, this idiosyncratic brainchild of former fashionista Murray Moss has helped define the Soho design scene. Bridging decorative arts, industrial design and art, Moss models his displays after museum exhibits, showcasing each item with the date, designer and provenance, so even if you can’t buy, you can learn. Major names in modern design, such as architect Gaetano Pesce, are always on display in revolving exhibits. (via Elements of Living)

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Swatches : A Sourcebook of Patterns with More Than 400 Fabric Designs

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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By Dorsey Sitley Adler and Robert D. Adler Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $29.95
This pleasingly chunky book is sized perfectly for flipping through, making the job of zeroing in on the right fabric for that chair or pair of drapes much less burdensome than lugging around unruly sample books. In fact, you’d have to juggle quite a stack to see the range of fabrics pictured in this excellent resource, compiled by a husband-and-wife textile-expert team. The Adlers are the founders of the largest privately owned textile library in the country, and their archives are bursting with more than 4 million pattern swatches, ranging from nineteenth-century historical patterns to contemporary fabrics. Though the book offers a mere fraction of those archives, the 400 fabric swatches pictured are well edited and helpfully organized by pattern type, including stripes (ombre, ticking, variegated, twist yarn), geometrics (polka dots, deco, op-art, foulard), ethnics (tropical, paisley, batik, overprinted madras) and plaids (tattersall check, herringbone, houndstooth). What’s more, there’s just one full swatch pictured per page, making it easier to see. The text is spare—this is a look book on the order of a fan of paint chips—but what little accompanies each chapter may help the truly undecided; it describes the origins of and typical uses for each pattern. (via Elements of Living)

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Chee Soon & Fitzgerald

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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Opened in 1996 by a pair of lovers of art and design, Chee Soon & Fitzgerald, located in Sydney, Australia, stocks well-designed contemporary interior furnishings, including fabrics, wallpaper, lighting, decorative arts and multi-functional furniture pieces, by both Australian and overseas designers. (via Elements of Living)

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Customweave

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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The Australian wool pieces of Customweave are available in an array of natural dyes and sizes. Designed by Sophie Ellis and Jo Philipson, the rugs are equally visual and tactile: Hanging near the store’s entrance, for example, wood butterflies dance across a chocolate-colored alpaca field, punctuated by leather-tassle dewdrops. (via Elements of Living)

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Pierre Frey

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Some of the best imported French prints available now come from Pierre Frey, which includes the houses of Boussac Fadini and Braquenié. Pierre Frey and Braquenié are largely known for their historical document reproductions and inspired patterns produced in quintessential French and updated colorways. (Braquenié purchased many of Oberkampf’s prints when the company liquidated in the mid-nineteenth century.) Boussac Fadini’s prints are stylized versions of traditional motifs, generally in a larger scale. (via Elements of Living)

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Colombian and German Sheers

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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When they first appeared, in Mesopotamia, window sheers were made of muslin. Most Americans have long been content with similarly simple versions. Europeans, however, have been producing and embracing highly decorative sheers for years, and, industry experts say, Americans are starting to lighten up their window treatments, too, choosing diaphanous fabrics over traditional silks, cottons and linens. The sheers in demand are creatively designed and often incorporate multiple materials. Some of the most interesting come from Germany and Colombia. Designer Rieta Romer’s collection of transparent and semi-transparent sheers for Frankfurt-based Zimmer + Rohde are among the best: Blink features a repeated round fringe design inspired by a winking eye. Post It offers a grid pattern of small fabric squares partially sewn onto a contrasting background, which, when hung, gives the impression of hundreds of Post-it notes. The company’s Fes is a transparent netting decorated with embroidered sequins and thread. From the Colombian Amazon come semi-transparent sheers, imported by A.M. Collections, that are hand-woven from indigenous and other varied materials, including metals, leaves and cotton. (via Elements of Living)

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Imports From Marrakesk

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Seven years ago in his shop in downtown Manhattan, Mohamed Elmaroof met Stephanie Rudloe when they struck up a conversation about Moroccan music. Elmaroof, whose father was a rug merchant, is a seasoned navigator of the Moroccan textile market and speaks many Berber dialects. Rudloe, a stylist/interior designer, was savvy to the world of client customization.
Respectively owner and creative director of Imports from Marrakesh, they now specialize in supplying customized Zillij tile, plaster, woodcarving, lighting, textiles, carpets and architectural elements from Morocco. Rudloe will help clients design many of these pieces, which are then produced by traditional artisans. (via Elements of Living)

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Habitus Architectural Finishes

Updated Jun 2, 2006

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Self-proclaimed design fanatic Amy Tanenbaum opened Habitus Architectural Finishes this past January, after years in the stone business. "We’re not reinventing the materials," she says of the new endeavor, "but looking for alternative ways to use them." Cork fabric traditionally used for shoes and handbags, Tanenbaum found a way to make it luxurious enough for upholstery. Other highlights: Imurazzi Mosaics, an Italian ceramic tile machine-cut into irregular trapezoidal shapes; cork mosaic penny tiles; ProntoKorq floor and wall panels available in 30 colors; and rustic Italian marble, travertine and sandstone sinks. Tanenbaum’s showroom is located in her five-story Harlem brownstone--which she is completely renovating with top-to-bottom Habitus finishes. (via Elements of Living)

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Twenty2

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Kyra and Robertson Hartnett launched Twenty2 in 2002, after friends praised their unique party invitations. Hand-screened wallpapers, woven jute grasscloths and linen and cotton upholstery fabrics in Easter-egg colors followed. Gingko leaves, which provide a canopy above the streets of their Brooklyn home, figure prominently in the designs, and their architectural squiggles and shapes seem born of mid-century modern. Twenty2 has also collaborated with the larger company Designtex to create a line of contract and residential wall coverings, draperies and upholstery. (via Elements of Living)

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Kasthall: Hambo Carpet

Updated Apr 3, 2006

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Sweden’s banded rag carpet is superbly interpreted in hair-thin wool yarn on a linen warp by much-awarded designer Gunilla Lagerhem Ullberg. The various-width stripes of the Hambo carpet roam three color ranges: blue-beige, brown-beige and red-green. (via Elements of Living)

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Spun Vynyl Tablemats

Updated Apr 3, 2006

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It appears that fine artist turned textile designer Sandy Chilewich can’t help but start a revolution. She upended the leg-wear industry as cofounder of Hue in 1979, then took what she learned about stretch fabric to create, among other coveted things, her elliptical space-age mesh containers, the much-honored Raybowls. Lately she has turned her considerable attention to vinyl. Her flexible, washable Spun Vynyl tablemats, wherein the molten material is dripped rather than woven into shape, achieve a rare utilitarian grace. (via Elements of Living)

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Sam Kasten

Updated Feb 22, 2006

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Sam Kasten, a weaver with more than 30 years experience and the stellar repuation such experience can earn, believes that hand-woven fabric adds not just decoration but also emotional satisfaction to a room. (via EOL)

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