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100 Designers: Prints/Fabrics

Is there a classic print or fabric that will never be passé?

Samuel Botero:  animal prints, esp. leopard (Are you kidding?)

Anthony P. Browne:  Alicia chintz from Colefax and Fowler

William W. Stubbs:  Damask

Thomas Britt:  Jim Thompson Thai Silk IV in banana

Roderick N. Shade:  Paisley (?)

Mark Boone:  Fortuny’s De Medici pattern

Charles Allem:  Stripes

Paul Vincent Wiseman:  Fortuny’s Richelieu lion

Michael Schaible:  black and white stripes from Perennials

Harry Schnaper:  Fortuny.  Brunschwig & Fils’s La Portugaise.  Clarence House.

Campion A. Platt:  Mohair

100 Designers: Colour

Through out the January 2006 edition of Architectural Digest they discussed specific idea of several Designers.  This one is on the topic of colour.

The Specific Question:  “Is there a particular color or material that you find yourself returning to again and again?”

Laura Hunt:  At least two shades of white.

William W. Stubbs:  White.  Sherwin Williams.

Anthony P. Browne:  “Terra-cotta or green.”

Samuel Botero:  pale blue ceilings. (” as a device.  It reflects a clean light and gives the illusion of height”)

Karin Blake:  green

Thomas Britt:  Aubergine, Benjamin Moore dark basalt, deep mulberry and Tulsa twilight.

Marjorie Shushan:  Neutral colors, earth tones and cashmere.

Juan Montoya:  Benjamin Moore linen white. 

David Easton:  Terra-cotta red

Mark Boone:  Benjamin Moore peach blossom

Roderick N. Shade:  Deep taupe, dark khaki and neutrals

Campion A. Platt:  saturated blue

Matthew White:  linen, wool, silk

Harry Schnaper:  Benjamin Moore natural wicker

Margaret McCurry:  white

Michael Schaible:  Black

Carleton Varney:  aqua blue