Inspiration – Process – Design we love
We are thrilled to receive Best Textile from CS Interiors 1st Annual Best in Design Awards! They chose our Larch Ash bedding as an example of our organic motifs applied to modern bedding. Thank you so much, we are honored.
Oh Joy is one of our favorites. She’s sweet, charming, creative, and full of fun and now she’s begun a new video series called, Make Someone Happy. Check out her most recent, No.3 Food+Friends, and keep an eye out for our Stitch Khaki Placemats and Sailor Mustard Napkins. Everything else she’s included is super cute too! You can find it all on her Pinterest Board to prep for the upcoming holiday!
Thanks to Kevin Aeh at TOC for including our Stitch Eggplant pillow in his Trendspiration: Burgundy feature. Loving these rich hues for fall/winter and also our placement next to Ron Burgundy!
We thought it would be fun to celebrate Halloween at the office today with our childhood photos of Halloween costumes. It’s clear we haven’t changed a bit. Here are a few to start. So cute!
NOVEMBER 2-4 / FRIDAY 11-6 / SATURDAY + SUNDAY 11-4
Join us for our annual Fall Warehouse Sale! November 2-4. Find the best of sale bedding and blankets, B-quality pillows and unique samples up to 80% off! Shop A-quality quilts, pillows, duvets and sheets up to 75% off, plus enjoy additional discounts on select housewares and accessories up to 50% off.
FOOD DRIVE: We are collecting nutritious, nonperishable foods for the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Bring 10 canned goods with you to receive an extra 10% off your purchase.
WISH LIST OF GROCERIES: Beans, Canned Fruit, Canned Vegetables, Cereal, Chili, Jelly, Macaroni and Cheese, Pasta, Pasta Sauce, Peanut Butter, Rice, Shelf-Stable Milk, Soup, Stew, Tuna.
*Please remember to enter through our warehouse door on Carroll Ave. View Map. Thank you and see you there!
Our Custom Cubed event was the perfect mix of design and craft all rolled up into one cozy night! The creators of our amazing one-of-a-kind reupholstered, revived and rejuvenated furniture were all there, answering your questions about the many layers involved in each piece, and some creative customers brought their own ideas as well for discussion. Hand made pretzels, mustard and cheese were also served, compliments of Mess Hall &Co.
Stop by the Studio+Store in the next couple weeks to view the collection before we turn it over to our winter launch!
The chairs have sold, but the sofa is still available ($2000). All pieces were refinished by Furniture Revival and upholstered Eli Wyn Upholstery.
Two original Knoll club chairs reupholstered (and looking classy) in our Sailor fabric. Still available at the Studio+Store.
One-of-a-kind custom cubes covered in our various Unison fabrics, available at the Studio+Store ($275 each).
A vintage chair attributed to Jens Risom, refinished and reupholstered in our Maritime fabric. Still available at the Studio+Store ($1200).
A gorgeous vintage chaise lounge covered in our Lush pattern. Still available at the Studio+Store ($1400).
Tonight is our collaborative event, Custom Cubed, featuring vintage furniture pieces restored by Unison, Eli Wynn Upholstery, and Furniture Revival. This is the first time we’ve utilized our fabrics primarily for re-upholstery. On view are restored pieces by Jens Risom, Knoll and a few other unknown 70’s designers. We also have a selection of unique cubed ottomans for sale. We worked with photographer, Debbie Carlos, to document the process and will have some of her photographs on view.
All of our fabrics are hand-printed on the East Coast on sailcloth or slub duck. These two qualities prove to be excellent for upholstery, holding up to commercial coatings like flame and stain retardant. Our fabrics have been used for commercial projects throughout the U.S. and now we’d like to offer them directly to our customers.
Our studio is located in Chicago, where we design, execute, inspect, and store our fabrics. We convert the fabric into pillows, table linens, aprons, oven mitts and more. Our sewer is in the neighborhood, thus communication about quality is face to face and on a regular basis. Our bedding? We design that here too, but it is printed and sewn in Portugal. Here are a few behind-the-scene photographs of our inspection process.
Robert and I had the recent honor of being judges, alongside some pretty influential names in the world of design, Bradford Shellhammer (founder of Fab) and Jaime Derringer (founder of Design Milk), for this year’s Design Showcase on Apartment Therapy. Every year the blog hosts a competition for best new product in the world of modern design. This year there were 30 submissions from around the world and only three won the $10,000 in advertising on AT. We chose the Lug Trugs by local husband and wife design duo Ted and Sharon Burdett of Strand Design. Not only do we love their design sensibility in general (they also make a swanky table) we love these bins because they encapsulate modern and function so well, plus they are hand stitched (!) by Sharon herself. Very cool products, and pretty nice folks too.
We also gave honorable mention to a beautiful line of hand printed textiles by German designer Susanne Thurn.
Thank you to everyone who came to Design Harvest this weekend! The weather was amazing and the vendors and customers were a pleasure. But most importantly, we want to thank Angela from Post 27 for executing a successful event! She has a knack for bringing Chicago’s design community together in a special way. Here are a couple photos from our booth.
Join us this weekend, along with Chicago’s best local furniture and home accessory makers, vintage and antique collectors, and local retailers of home design for Design Harvest, Chicago’s best festival celebrating the home. This is a weekend full of fun, including live music from the Hideout, hot cider, local brews, delicious eats, fantastic people, and loads of very cool local design. Shop our Unison booth and get 20% off. See you there!
