So many questions when it comes to selecting the right fabric for your sofa or major piece of upholstery; Designer Joe Ruggiero has some ideas in his latest Decorating Video: How to select the right fabric for your sofa.
Donna Blair owner of Luxe Home Interiors, Ottowa, Canada will be joining Joe and his wife for a visit to California. Trips to Beverly Hills, Malibu, Brentwood and Santa Monica are planned and then dinner at one of the trending LA restaurants.
We are ready to present our collections for Spring 2011. It has been a rainy few days but great to focus on the showroom and prepare for meetings and sales reps training. What an exciting time of year, as we prepare to greet our buyers and show our new Sunbrella, Miles Talbott, Gat Creek, W.King Ambler, Casa Fiora, Craftmade introductions.
Sunbrella, Basically Beige in various gradations of monotones will be our main story for High Point Market, Spring 2011.
Beautiful setting to meet and present our Spring Collections to a delightful group of Media Representatives Interior Designers, and Retailers. Pelican Hill, the Paladio inspired resort in Newport Beach, California was the site for the event. Guests had the opportunity of seeing the incredible buildings and gardens on this magnificent property. Some of those in attendance were: Margarite Clark, MC Public Relations; Karyn Millet; Interiors Photographer; Darra Baker, Traditional Home Magazine, Warren Sheets, Interior Designer; Mickey Von Hemert,Interior Designer;Donna Pennington also of Von Hemert Designs; Courtney Ellis Dever andKathryn Pietra, Ellis Design Group; Chris Christensen, Senior Editor, Orange Coast Magazine.
We are proud to have been selected by House Beautiful Magazine in the "looking for a banquette" story in the March issue. Our Wong Settee is the perfect banquette. 
The look of Black and White geometrics. Always a good choice. Cote Paris magazine says "Qui" and so do we with our Sunbrella fabric Brazil in the classic color way. 
It is always a great event when we select fabrics for the Joe Ruggiero/ Sunbrella collection. The process starts with hundreds of "trials" and we then edit down to about 40/50 selects. This year we are seeing dusty, muted colors to clear "brights."
Our collection for Sunbrella this Spring brings a softer, water color look to many of the patterns. The ancient arts of "tie dye" and needlepoint are utilized to look to the past and color to the future.
This new Hillsboro Club Chair for Miles Talbott was inspired by the clean, crisp lines of furniture designed famed French designer Jean Michel Frank. The low back makes it easy for designing in pairs and floating in a room. The chair is also built with superb comfort. You wouldn't think a chair this size is extremely comfortable for all sizes. The Hillsboro chair is covered in Sunbrella pattern ZigZag/Latte.
The "Blues" have it! At our recent High Point/Miles Talbott Show we saw buyers gravitate to the Blue rooms and deep Indigo Fabrics for Sunbrella. This also was the subject for the French Vogue cover and Armani ended his show with outfit after outfit of , yes you guessed it, Indigo Blue. I think we're on to something...Blue perhaps?
A Fashion Show of Sunbrella Bags? Yes, it was an effective way to show the new Joe Ruggiero/Sunbrella fabrics at a Charity Event in Indianapolis, Indiana for the Dyslexia, Institute. The bags were auctioned off and money raised for the Charity. This event drew a large ground at the Dream Home in co-operation with the Luxe Store in Carmel, Indiana.
Our new Villa dining chairs are now available in long or short skirts with many options:contrasting welts, borders or trims. They are also the perfect "pull-up" chairs. They are upholstered in Sunbrella Meridian/Dove; the perfect texture and color for any color scheme. All available at Miles Talbott.
One of my joys, season to season is developing and introducing new patterns for my Sunbrella collection. After a week of development for Fall & Spring 2011, I continue to be excited about the development of Sunbrella interior fabrics and the softness of hand. Along with new colors and new construction of fabric designs, I am happy to say you will have some delightful new surprises. Pictured here: patterns Frank (left photo) and Remix on the pillow and chair (right photo). The chair is our armless chair called the Chine for Miles Talbott.
The setting is our showroom in High Point, North Carolina.
SPRING PREVIEW:
Yes, we are putting together the line for Spring. The Joe Ruggiero/ Sunbrella collection is looking beyond beige and we see pink (just a touch) as the dominate color. Yes, there will be other accent colors and beige will be the base to it all but as Kay Thompson(photo left) in the movie Funny Face said we should "Think Pink" for Spring.
Mix it up with Sunbrella patterns from my new Collection: Moonshine and Zulu work together to make a bold statement. This season pattern will "punch it up" on basic monotone textures.
The Salon sofa for Miles Talbott was inspired by the Salons of Paris during the 1930s. Graceful, deep seating brought an elegance and grace to the traditional sofa. Here it is covered in Sunbrella Meridian/Wren with pillows of Velvet/Cocoa and Courtyard/Cocoa. Decorative cording is also made of Sunbrella fibers. New for Fall 2010.
