Trends: Color & Texture in Textiles Maison & Objet 2009

Trends: Color & Texture in Textiles
Maison & Objet 2009

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I'm back to color again with this latest dispatch from the home furnishings show in Paris. Today I'll let color speak for itself, and talk a little bit about texture. There was a strong "felt" theme running through many of the exhibition halls: it was on furniture, chairs, stools, pillows and wall hangings, meant — I imagine — to convey warmth and simplicity in troubling times. Perhaps you can't see the texture in the photo, but that tête-à-tête is covered in pink felt...

Furniture seemed largely devoid of extreme pattern, and there wasn't an overabundance of wallpaper either. But for lovers of things fun and outré, one came occasionally across the unusual: feathered lamps, needlepoint furniture, the rope room, and fur. I almost tripped over this fur ottoman and thought I'd bumped into Sonia Rykiel. That rug is cloth in a wood grain pattern.

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The photos make me want to paint all walls white and go cuckoo with color. I better get busy reupholstering every last piece in my downstairs. Where can I find some of the long Mongolian Goat hide? (not sure if that's what that is)

posted by ModHomeEcTeacher on February 3rd 2009 at 12:10pm
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I love the Ikea fabrics and they are not very expensive at all.

posted by colleen2009 on February 3rd 2009 at 12:40pm
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::swoon::

but seriously, i don't like the felt idea. i bought a felted wool change purse three years ago, it slowly pills up and i recently had to cut off a chunk that only rolled up halfway. not sure how long till there's nothing left. unless felt is different from felted wool... that could be okay.

posted by Lady J on February 3rd 2009 at 1:20pm
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"Perhaps you can't see the texture in the photo, but that tête-à-tête is covered in pink felt..."

I don't see a Tete-a-Tete - Do you mean the Settee?

posted by bepsf on February 3rd 2009 at 1:31pm
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Apparently you have to go to France to get a proper, practical upholstered chair. *sigh*

posted by JefferyK on February 3rd 2009 at 2:18pm
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