From budding names in the business, to big players we know and love year and after year, the 2011 New York International Gift Fair was buzzing with lots of amazing designers. There was tons to see and plenty to write about, so for now, check out my top five favorites.
MIO
A brilliant solution to those ghastly drop-tile ceilings, MIO's new FoldScape series features recycled cardboard modules that, once folded into a geometric form, bring an inexpensive and bold transformation to an otherwise unappealing room feature.
Aviva Stanoff
With their fabrics that celebrate nature, Aviva Stanoff's collection of textiles is handmade in Brooklyn by pressing real objects like blossoms, coral and feathers into fabric. No two fabrics are alike.
Mad Mats
Ecologically and socially responsible rugs designed for outside use. Mad Mats come in colorful geometric, floral and traditional designs that can be washed with a simple garden hose.
IZOLA
These charming canvas laundry bags by IZOLA come screen printed with useful advice, like the anatomy of a shirt and reminders to practice conservation. Coming in September.
LinenMe
In their Huckaback collection, LinenMe brings vintage French-style to the bathroom with these striped linen bathroom towels, available in several colors and striped motifs.
Veronica & Keith's Handmade Chic 
The World's Ugliest Condo: The Big Bathroom Reveal 
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Hunslet Dinner Plate
A Beginner's Guide to Superb Stir-Fry: Quick, Healthy Meals from a Wok
Homesteaders' Cocktail Recipe: Lovage Simple Syrup
Comments (5)
Love your picks Mat! Especially Aviava Stanoff fabrics and Mio's Foldscape. Can't wait to see what else you found.
Love the Aviva fabrics. Really beautiful. Looks like a velvet burnout maybe. I like the linenme towels, but I don't understand why they call them huckaback. That's a specific lace weave structure. The towels shown on their website collection appear to be just plain or twill weave. Beautiful, but not huckaback.
those towels look beautiful.
totally agree - towels from Linenme are NOT huckaback.
Thank god I bought only one and it was not worth to return somewhere in Asia as it was send not from UK. Never ever again
Thank you everyone for your feedback about my linen towels.
Regarding whether they are huckaback or not, I can assure, that they are.
Based on definitions and descriptions of textile terms (e.g. Anstey Weston, Guide to textile terms, Wikipedia ), Huckaback is a type of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric used for making towels. Woven fabric where short floats of yarn, warp on one side of the cloth, and weft on the other, produce a rough surface effect. Weave can be plain or twill (and my towels are of this type due to specific features of natural linen fabric). Additionally, we do prewashing for these towels to make them feel softer.
I was born and grew up in Lithuania. My parents are working in Linen industry more that 35 years. All our items are produced in family owned manufacturing unit in Lithuania (EU), country with deep linen manufacturing traditions.
Everybody who is in doubt I invite to come and visit our imanufacturing unit n Lithuania I will personally make a guided tour.
Just drop us a note filling a enquiry form on http://www.linenme.com/ask-a-question-provide-feedback