BLOG - Ikat

I love pulling together fabrics for new projects and the combinations below are some of my new absolute favorites. 

A little background-the floors throughout the apartment are bleached white oak and crema marble.  The canvas, shall we say, is light, bright, and airy.

The scheme above is for the living room.  The plan is to paint the walls in a deep blue Venetian plaster (with just enough movement to not be heavy). The orange velvet in the top right of the image is for the sofa.  The gray blue large swatch is for the windows.  I love the tonality of this fabric and can't wait to see it in billowy full-length curtains.  The light blue wool (top row) and blue chevron (bottom right) are options for chairs, pillows, etc.

The Living Room of the apartment is connected to the study with pocket doors.  The Ikat is for the windows (romans)  and the blue and gray weave is for the sofa.  The glazed linen on the bottom right is for a chair and ottoman.  The thought is to paint the walls a deep chocolate brown lacquer. 

For the open Kitchen/Family Room the palette is clean and crisp greens, somewhere between an olive and a kelly green but not really either.  I just adore this color! The straw and green basket weave is for a big comfy L-shaped sofa.  The green velvet is for big pillows and the stripe with yellow and green is for the windows.  The cabinetry for the kitchen and family room will be white with the backs of the shelves painted green. 

The goal for the Master Bedroom was to create a soothing luxurious palette of grays and lilacs.  The bottom right fabric is for the windows (romans).  The top right gray/lilac nubbey linen is for the headboard, the gray and white print on the top left is for a bench and the purple mohair is for pillows.

I just returned from an amazing two weeks in Turkey. Turkey and in particular Istanbul is by far and away one of my favorite places.  There was inspiration to be found at every corner.  One of my best finds from the trip was an amazing Ikat source.  My husband I purchased a variety of silk velvet ikats for our new home as well as the more traditional weave shown below. I just love this fabric and it turned out to be our source of inspiration for our new range of finishes that will be unveiled at High Point in October.  In addition to our existing colors and finishes, we will be offering our casegoods in the blue, yellow, green, and pink shown below. Our upholstered pieces will be available in the ikat as well as the antique gold velvet.