Posts from the ‘Color’ Category

Color Observed: Transformative Green

September 4, 2014

Keeping up with the ever-changing landscape of color requires a certain amount of vigilance. Green (as in the color) is in a state of transformation. I know that sounds like the lead-in to an astrological reading but in the world of design and fashion, colors travel the universe in one iteration for a period of […]

Honoring An Ancient Tradition: Torino – A New Linen Velvet from Place

February 19, 2014

  As fabrics go, velvet is in a class by itself. Velvet has been considered a luxury fabric almost since the beginning of time and linen velvet (made from flax) dates all the way back to 2000 BC in ancient Egypt. Household inventories from 809 AD list bolts of velvet as assets in documenting wealth! […]

Belle Magazine Floral Fabric

Rosa Featured in Floral Fabric Editorial for Belle Magazine

February 12, 2014

Check out this AMAZING editorial in the Australian Belle Magazine! Our very own Rosa | Azalea is featured in the photograph as an elegant gown thanks to the efforts of our new Australian showroom, Studio LW. In the spread, stylist David Novak-Piper, dresses and surrounds models in the most colorful floral fabrics creating a luxurious […]

A Word About Color: The Bella Rosa Collection

July 20, 2013

A Word About Color The Bella Rosa Palette embraces color, adding new hues to the Place Textiles system of calibrated color families. A saturated and moody turquoise called Deep Water and a marvelous violet-blue called Periwinkle are two of the most irresistible new colors to join the palette. Timeless and versatile neutrals such as Dover […]

Blue is Summer

September 11, 2012

My summer has been influenced by blue – the color of the water – the color of the sky. My few weekends out of the city have taken me to places heavily influenced by their relationship to the water – in Maine – in the Hamptons. And when my Brooklyn bedroom came together, it did […]

A Blue Summer

September 5, 2012

Go Design Go catches up with Kristie about her very blue summer, and how her love for the color inspired the new collection for Place – River Aire, coming this Fall. Read the interview and introduction to the new collection here.

Spring Blast

April 5, 2012

Warm as the Sun Spring is here and with it the warm colors of the sun. Sign up for the Place blog or visit us on Facebook to read Place Color Stories and experience Place By Color!