Flower Power!
Flowers are beautiful. They inspire everything from art to fashion to interior design. If you’re looking to incorporate floral patterns into your home, but want to do it in a modern way, we can help. Vastu’s Senior Designer, Sarita Peresada, offers up two important things to keep in mind when it comes to incorporating florals into your home.
#1 – Be sure to select modern or vintage patterns. Stay away from country or traditional patterns.
Rodarte for Knoll Luxe: Part 2
We took a look at half of the Rodarte for Knoll Luxe fabrics, and now here’s a peek the rest of this amazing collection.
Keats upholstery fabric:
Rodarte for Knoll Luxe: Part 1
Rodarte, the celebrated American fashion house of Kate and Laura Mulleavy, has created five upholstery and three drapery patterns for Knoll Luxe. This collection is an abstract translation of Rodarte’s runway looks from the last 5 years. Here’s a closer look at 4 of the 8 textiles in the collection…
Flickr finds: Designer’s Guild
In keeping with our Wallpaper Week theme, here’s a round-up of some great wallpaper from London based company, Designer’s Guild. (We couldn’t resist including some of their gorgeous fabrics too).
Bored with your room…
…reupholster one (or two or three) of your upholstered pieces of furniture. Perhaps you have a sofa, lounge chair, ottoman or some dining chairs that could use a little face lift. This is a great opportunity to bring a new color or texture into your room.
Bored with your room…
…consider new window treatments! That is, of course, assuming the room you’re bored with has windows… Read more
Design Direction
Do you have a challenging space or need some design guidance? Design Direction is a chance for you to submit photos or videos of your design challenge(s) and a Vastu interior designer will provide you with some help. Every Wednesday we will feature one reader’s submission.
“Hello, My Husband and I live in a rather oddly shaped condo in Arlington VA and are looking for ways to shape up the living room to be both pretty and functional. Here are the purposes the living room serves currently: – TV watching area, work from home area, reading area, entertaining and eating area. We would like to get a new couch and position so that it’s not blocking most of our french windows that open to a beautiful sun room. There are a couple of pieces of furniture (the ottoman, the wine rack, the Manhattan chair) that we would like to keep. We are at a loss as to where to begin, so any ideas you have would be very welcomed. Thanks for all your help!”
Look what we found #7
Tote bags made out of Knoll textiles! Asymptote bags features the ‘Aficianado’ bag, which is the shop’s signature size bag (14″ H x 15″ W), and the ‘Curator’ tote which is the largest bag available.
KnollTextiles: The Designers Vision
W, S, W-S… What’s it all about?
We got quite a bit of traffic on the Wyzen-what? post, so we thought we’d follow it up with another post on determining fabric durability and cracking textile industry code.
You may have seen fabrics marked with a W, S, W-S or X as it relates to the fabric’s cleaning or maintenance. The code stands for the type of cleaning agent that is recommended for that particular textile. Detailed cleaning instructions vary based on the textile’s cleaning code:
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