DwellStudio, known for fashion-forward design for interior home and children's rooms, has expanded their offering to decorative fabrics. Their designer collection for Robert Allen @ Home is now available at retail in Calico Corners – Calico Home stores across the country and online.
Designed by founder Christiane Lemieux and the DwellStudio design team, the fabrics in this collection reflect their aesthetic of hip designs, fresh colors and a livable modern look. Lemieux is also the author of a new book, Undecorate, that celebrates individual style and rooms with personality the homeowner's, not the decorator's! These homes have a vibrant energy and look as if real people actually live there.
"The most stylish people these days understand a fundamental aspect of good living—it's always evolving," notes Lemieux. "Great style isn't necessarily a finished interior so much as it is an ongoing process."
Home decorators can have a chic lifestyle and still break rules of design, to undecorate, suggests Lemieux. "We should know that this room, this home, belongs to that person and no one else. It should bear the mark of their lives, their quirks, their travels, their family."
"That's what I love about having DwellStudio fabrics at Calico," she adds. "Their store associates are design enablers, not style dictators. They help customers discover their own style and follow their instincts to achieve a personal look."
To deliver more value and business opportunities, Messe Frankfurt will launch the third home textile trade show in China next year under its world renowned Heimtextil brand. Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles Spring Edition, co-organised with the Sub-Council of Textile Industry (CCPIT) and the China Home Textile Association (CHTA), will take place at the INTEX Shanghai and Shanghaimart from 2 – 4 April 2011.
To meet the growing demand for home textile products in China, the new show offers domestic suppliers and buyers of bedding products and decorative fabrics a professional platform to do business. Held in spring, a traditional sourcing period for bedding and upholstery fabrics, the event has already attracted over 190 exhibitors from the major bedding and upholstery manufacturing zones of Yuhang and Haining in China.
Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles Spring Edition is the sister event of Intertextile Guangzhou Home Textile China and Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles. Ms Wendy Wen, Director, Trade Fairs, Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd said: “The synergy effects of these three shows will deliver even more opportunities for suppliers and buyers to boost their business domestically and internationally.”
The next edition of Intertextile Guangzhou Home Textile China will take place in Guangzhou at the China Import and Export Fair Complex, from 18 – 21 March 2011. Held together with the largest furniture exhibition in Asia, the China international Furniture Fair and four other home related events, the show is regarded as southern China’s whole home platform. In 2010, 18,495 professional trade buyers sourced a wide variety of creatively designed textile products from 181 exhibitors from 6 countries and regions.
