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Design Public

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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When “design nuts” Drew Sanocki and Sina Djafar launched Edge Modern, a Web-based company dedicated to modern furnishings and bedding, their well-edited offerings quickly won the attention of modernist design devotees like Sherry Black. “I was trying to track down a specific rug for a restaurant client and I needed it in short order,” says the Wilmington, NC, interior designer, who discovered Edge Modern during her search. “After one conversation with Drew and Sina—and no luck with the rug—I trusted them to help me choose another one, which turned out to be perfect.”
Now the pair are flinging open the “doors” of their cyber store to hold an ongoing design town meeting. The expanded and renamed site, www.designpublic.com, will continue to offer selections from both well-known design sources (Blu Dot, Dwell, Angela Adams) and lesser-known ones (Variegated, John Kelly Furniture). But users can also click their way into forums, photo galleries, chats with guest designers, blogs on new products and primers demystifying such subjects as thread counts. “I want the site to be as interactive as possible, one where customers can share information, opinions and resources with one another,” says Sanocki, who has been known to direct clients away from his site and to Ikea for certain products. This kind of openness may explain why Sherry Black and other designers and architects plan to keep up with the ongoing designpublic.com conversation. (via Elements of Living)

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Contemporary Cloth

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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As a child, Sondra Borrie spent hours watching her aunt, New York abstract expressionist painter Margaret Milliken (above), apply oils to canvas. “I was just mesmerized by her work,” Borrie recalls. But her admiration didn’t stop with her aunt. “Being around her opened my eyes to abstract art and contemporary design,” says the former occupational therapist who, after struggling to find the right retro fabrics for her own design projects, launched Contemporary Cloth.com, a Cleveland-based website, in 2001. The site reflects Borrie’s love for mid-century-modern textiles and features a selection of striking but affordable fabrics for upholstered pieces—a welcome source now that the designs of the 1950s and ’60s have taken off, with the soaring prices to prove it.
When visiting Contemporary Cloth, head for the Interior Design Textiles section, where you can choose from an assortment of medium- to heavy-weight retro fabrics. For help with selecting patterns and colors, click on Continue Shopping after fabrics have been placed in your cart and go to the Interactive Design Wall, a handy tool for mixing and matching digital swatches. When done, you can feel virtuous about virtually shopping here: Borrie donates 1 percent of her profits to a local homeless shelter. (via Elements of Living)

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Family Heirloom Weavers

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Antique fabrics were made of all-natural materials: silk, cotton, hemp and wool. And it’s because of those moths, and the ruinous effects of water, rot and sunlight, that relatively few survive. Even fewer are actually usable, and those that are lie quietly in museum-storage drawers: cool, away from the light, and archived for textile scholars. That’s why, if you’re designing a bedroom with a linsey-woolsey coverlet in mind (especially one with your or your client’s name in the corner), you shouldn’t expect to find one on eBay or at a local tag sale. But you can find it at neighborly firms like Family Heir-loom Weavers, who’ll make it right in their workshop in Red Lion, PA. (via Elements of Living)

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Thistle Hill Weavers

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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If the only thing for the kitchen seems to be curtains in the eighteenth-century plain-weave, unglazed worsted called camlet, Thistle Hill Weavers in upstate New York know what it is and how to make it. Lovers of the formal can carefully carry their faded shreds of Versailles-era silk to Scalamandré in Manhattan for perfect copies, or even send a picture of the original, though this old, family-owned firm is also happy to re-create the velvet of Scarlett O’Hara’s (and Carol Burnett’s) Tara-drapery dress. (via Elements of Living)

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Charles Rupert

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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The colors of early wools, silks and cottons were, naturally, limited to the vegetable and other dyes available at the time, and many of today’s re-creators of old textiles prefer to offer those old hues. This means that if you want to hide a TV set under a baize cloth (the way they once covered dining room tables and budgies), you might be limited to the very few colors once used. Charles Rupert, for example, which also sells reproductions of William Morris and Voysey prints, imports traditional baize from England and has it in the traditional dark green (think billiard tables), burgundy, navy and red. (via Elements of Living)

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Reprodepot Fabrics

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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For twentieth-century fabrics, Reprodepot Fabrics is among several online firms offering vintage prints that, until now, could only be found at flea markets. They sell the wild Havana and Copacabana barkcloths from the ’40s and the not-at-all depressing Aunt Grace’s Spots from the ’30s. Don’t overlook decorator sources, however: Trade-only showrooms are beginning to carry mid-century modern too, in colors and patterns so accurately goofy, they’ll make you smile. Anyone needing to upholster that pouf on the white shag rug will find plenty of groovy sources. (via Elements of Living)

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Arts & Crafts Period Textiles

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Arts and Crafts Period Textiles, reproducing turn-of-the-twentieth-century fabrics for fans of Stickley furniture and Rookwood pottery, doesn’t do orange checks or custom weaving, but it does offer quietly appropriate custom stenciling or hand-embroidery on subdued imported linens or sheer cottons. Owner Dianne Ayres studied textile arts in college and became seriously interested in Arts and Crafts design through her husband. Although the standard Gingko and Checkerberry patterns are customer favorites, she says, Ayres and the three talented ladies who do her embroidery always enjoy the challenge of special orders. (via Elements of Living)

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Jim Thompson

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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The special silk that hails from Thailand is prized for its great texture and weight, but more so for its gleaming patina. The beautiful sheen caught the eye of Jim Thompson, an American army officer who made Thailand his home after World War II, and who forever changed the Thai tradition of enlisting a local weaver and one’s tailor or dressmaker to custom weave silk and fashion it into clothing.
Thompson, with his discerning eye for beautiful things, inspired local weavers and their families to try new patterns and to use the color-fast dyes he imported from Europe. He also supplied them with a particular silkworm that had an appetite for a particular mulberry leaf, which resulted in a spun cocoon with a very long, inherently textured filament. These coarse strands are what give Thai silk its beautiful slubs, textures, and shine. Before long, a cottage industry emerged and Thompson opened an enchanting—and internationally famous—silk shop in Bangkok. Knowing the power of the American media, Thompson brought a small collection of silks to New York, where he was introduced to Vogue editor Edna Chase, and the rest is history. It was interior designer Billy Baldwin, however, who first used Thai silk in a client’s New York apartment, thus beginning America’s love affair with interiors swathed in Thai silk. (via Elements of Living)

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Chelsea Editions

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Today, some of the finest Indian embroideries are still produced in Southern Asia. Chelsea Editions is considered the premiere source for embellished fabrics based on eighteenth-century patterns and made in India under the direction of Mona Perlhagen, the company’s founder. Perlhagen works with textile dealers and mills to create product true to historical documents when she’s not sleuthing around for antique textiles to use as inspirations for her own designs. (via Elements of Living)

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Fabric Workshop and Museum

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Lovers of textiles, take note: Philadelphia is home of the Fabric Workshop, the country’s only museum for contemporary textiles. Founded in 1977, the Fabric Workshop has "developed from an ambitious experiment to a renowned institution with a widely-recognized Artist in Residence Program, an extensive permanent collection of new work created by artists at the Workshop, in-house and touring exhibitions, and comprehensive educational programming including lectures, tours, in-school presentations and student apprenticeships. (via Elements of Living)

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NiBa

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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NiBa is a showroom opened only last December by Holly Hunt veterans Nisi Berryman and Beth Arrowood. Maybe it’s the sparkling acrylic furnishings by Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz or the whimsical chandeliers festooned with feathers and teardrop crystals or the bright hot pillows from Myanmar that Arrowood says they can’t restock fast enough, but walking into NiBa is an instant mood elevator. Carpets are another big seller, and Berryman and Arrowood rolled out their own line last month, featuring natural fabrics to appeal to the more casually inclined South Floridian. (via Elements of Living)

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Gallery51

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Craig Wallen, a former consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, runs Gallery 51, a showcase for his tribal carpets and weavings from the Middle East and central Asia. His recent show shifted the spotlight to Africa, New Guinea, Borneo and Burma and featured ceremonial and functional objects made of beaten bark cloth, woven cane, tied and dyed raffia and twisted bark string. (via Elements of Living)

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Grimmer Roche

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Like many dealers of American Indian, or "First American," art, Mac Grimmer, of the appointment-only Grimmer Roche, started out as a collector. After moving to Santa Fe from LA, Grimmer renovated a historic building on Canyon Road and opened the Morning Star Gallery in 1982. Twelve years later, as the finest First American art became rarer and rarer, he sold the gallery and began to deal privately. Earlier this year, Grimmer invited David Roche, then director of Indian art at Sotheby’s in New York, to become his partner. Grimmer Roche’s aesthetic approach is encyclopedic connoisseurship (the average sale is $25,000). They deal in what they describe as "the top 15 percent" of American tribal art, which includes Plains Indians war shirts, Northwest masks and rattles, classic Navajo blankets, and pottery and baskets. The partners plan to open a small by-appointment space downtown this fall, "a beautiful white-wall gallery," as Roche describes it, that will continue to "take First American work out of the trading-post mentality, so people can see it as the art that it is." (via Elements of Living)

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Jackalope

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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You won’t find museum-quality goods at Jackalope, which sprawls over six acres on Cerrillos Road, a commercial artery that extends from downtown Santa Fe to outlying neighborhoods; but it is a trip in both senses of the word. The visitor is greeted by hundreds of huge, high-fired, high-color pots. Beyond is a building full of mostly inexpensive Latin American and Asian textiles, pottery, hardware, clothing, CDs, rugs, linens and tchotchkes. Head out the back door for antique and vintage garden accoutrements, open-air booth after booth of antiques, jewelry and crafts, and a building full of Asian furniture. As you should everywhere in this city, wear a hat to protect yourself from the sun, and take your time. If you shop at the pace at which Santa Fe runs, or rather, ambles, you may be lucky enough to stay there for the rest of your life. (via Elements of Living)

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Price Dewey Galleries

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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On the second floor of the historic Catron Building in Santa Fe is the spacious and beautifully lit Price Dewey Galleries. When Victoria Price bought the Dewey Gallery in 2003 and rechristened it, she also expanded the original gallery’s emphasis on Native American textiles, pottery, jewelry and artifacts. Now on display as well are contemporary art and design like the totemic painted folk sculptures carved from fenceposts by the Navajo artist Charlie Willeto; tweaked traditional pottery (think purgatory depicted as a hot tub) by Marie Romero Cash; early New Mexican tin retablos; mid-century furniture from Scandinavia; and highly original found-metal pieces like the Carrier 3 bench by Tom Emerson. (via Elements of Living)

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Clay Angel

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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A stroll across the plaza to Lincoln Avenue in Santa Fe takes you to the Clay Angel, where shelves and shelves of beautifully displayed high-end, high-color pottery from Mexico, Italy, Spain and France occupy the front of the shop. Take a few steps up to the mezzanine to study the large variety of Provençal and other fine, mostly French, table linens. Custom linens are also available. (via Elements of Living)

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Tableau

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Seattle-based Tableau shows owner Karen Olsen’s love of all things fashionable and her flair for mixing mediums—pairing Asian-inspired paper lanterns with hand-painted Provençal furniture, for example. The eclectic shop also carries mismatched tableware, embossed stationery and, my personal favorite, five-inch-tall letters decorated with shimmering glass chips, just like pixie dust. (via Elements of Living)

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Watson Kennedy

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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On First Avenue you’ll find Watson Kennedy Fine Home, housed in the Holyoke Building, another of Seattle’s historic landmarks. This shop is home to both new and old furniture, as well as tableware, linens and accessories, including French glassware. (via Elements of Living)

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Great Jones Home

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Carrie Hayden, a sucker for all things glamorous, named her Seattle store Great Jones Home as a tribute to New York City’s Great Jones Street. Nothing here is mainstream; the custom, exotic and unusual are the norm. In addition to reinvented antiques (“Something’s always changed—we reupholster, relacquer, repaint”), Hayden sells luxurious embroidered and quilted custom linens from lesser known but top-quality European manufacturers like Bagni Volpi Noemi in Italy. The store’s interior itself is worth a visit—bold brown-and-cream-painted stripes decorate one section of wall, and high ceilings and skylights provide natural light even on rainy days. Displays are innovative too—yard-long samples of fabrics are hung from robe hooks on the wall so you can take one home and drape it over a chair to really see what it would look like in your house (so much better than the standard swatch that disappears on a sofa or chair). (via Elements of Living)

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Heltzer Furniture

Updated Apr 6, 2006

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It would be a challenge to find a man who has more fun than Mike Heltzer. He makes elegant, award-winning furniture, lives and works in a renovated boatyard along the Chicago River, and restores and redesigns yachts. "It’s hard to believe how unconventional my life is now, considering I was originally an attorney with a big Chicago law firm," he laughs. Heltzer Furniture marries modern technology and hand-crafting in designs that integrate metals, textiles, stone and wood. Each piece is finished to enhance, both aesthetically and structurally, its natural characteristics. Collections are available through interior designers and architects. (via Elements of Living)

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SeaCloth

Updated Apr 6, 2006

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A fine artist by education and inclination, Susan Harris got into textiles as a favor to a friend seeking a special look. The result was 12 designs inspired by the beach and ocean. Enter Deidre Halper, a former marketing executive who visualized Harris’s work as an entire lifestyle brand. Now the SeaCloth collection of textiles and home accessories can be found in showrooms around the nation. In Greenwich, Connecticut, there’s a SeaCloth store featuring table linens, pillows, dog beds, housewares and more. (via Elements of Living)

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