bon anniversaire!
This week, Sabine and I visited Pierre Frey for a presentation honoring the family-owned company’s 75th anniversary.
“Exhibition 1935-1955: Inspiration & Realism of Fabrics” celebrates the whimsy of Pierre Frey’s early years and brings to New York a curated collection of textiles, drawings, and paintings usually held in their Parisian archives. The beautiful patterns are lively, and feel as fresh now as ever.
Categories: Design, Home, fabric, fabrics, textures | Tags: 1935-1955, anniversary, Design, fabric, Genevieve Prou, Irene Rohr, Janine Janet, Jean Chatanay, Jean-Denis Malcles, Patrick Frey, Pierre Frey, Sophie Rouart, textiles
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How Color-Confident Are You?—Lessons from the Old World
I’ve always admired the Europeans for their bold confidence with color. (Eighteenth-century English country houses equal sunshine-yellow walls, right?) Fast forward to today’s offerings of raspberry, fuchsia, acid green—nothing meek about these hues, yet Europeans love them. And not the way we do in America. For example, the French, English, Italians, and Spanish don’t confine these fresh-to-brazen palettes to their teens’ rooms or to modern-only spaces. Or even to a single space in need for a swift kick of coomph, as we Americans tend to do.
That’s what so great about how the Old World embraces color. They have no problem upholstering an 18th-century French settee in an up-to-the-minute fuchsia or grape.
New "Kavana" from Spanish fabric house, Alhambra
