Color Trends for Spring 2010

Garden gate

Garden Gate

New Candice Olsen

New Candice Olsen

Marina

Marina

Nest

Nest

Sunset

Sunset

Tropical Punch

Tropical Punch

Joe Ruggiero inspired by a musical theme for his new fabrics

In an article posted at Casual Living “Joe Ruggiero makes music with Sunbrella fabrics”, Joe discusses how he was inspired by a musical theme for his fabrics debuting in High Point. The four new fabric groups are Modern Jazz, Italian Classics, Western Opus and Decor Crescendo and are predominantly meant for furniture applications.  At ccino [...]

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Joe Ruggiero Introduces New Frames, Fabrics

Joe Ruggiero introduced new collections of upholstery frames and fabrics with classic origins and a more contemporary edge at the April High Point furniture market.
“I believe a new edgy approach to classic upholstery frames is needed in today’s marketplace,” Ruggiero said. “I have also designed new Sunbrella® fabric groups that are inspired by what I [...]

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Design Happens Blog loves Candice Olson at High Point Market

Design blog Design Happens loves Candice Olson and wrote about her collection at the recent High Point market.  Of course, by Design is the only source in Des Moines for the Candice Olson collection of furniture styles and fabrics.  If you’re a Candice fan, be sure to stop into our store and ask one of [...]

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How to Find Quality in Upholstered Furniture

The debate over quality construction of upholstered furniture
Okay, debate may be overstating it. Nevertheless there are a lot of opinions about what features to look for in quality upholstered furniture. Here is ccino’s take:
We get the consumer’s problems:

You can’t see inside a sofa to see how it is put together.
The industry jargon doesn’t mean [...]

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New from Spring Market at High Point

In the home furnishings and interior design world the High Point, North Carolina market is widely acknowledged to be the largest, most important event of the year. And it happens twice a year!
Each April and October…

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Special fabrics from fall market

Specialty fabrics often add the flair or punch to a fabulous room design.  At the recent fall High Point market those specialty fabrics frequently came from ikats and susanis.  There are furniture grade designs in these fabrics available.  Most often, fabrics with designs and colors this strong will be used as one of the accent [...]

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Ikat Designs

Specialty fabrics often add the flair or punch to a fabulous room design.  At the recent fall High Point market those specialty fabrics frequently came from ikats and susanis.
The word “ikat” means “to bind.”  It is a very ancient way of creating designs in fabric by resist-dyeing (a bit like tie-dying) the threads before the [...]

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Susani Textiles

Susani (sometimes spelled “suzani”) is the word for “needle” in Farsi, and the large embroidered dowry textiles of Turkic groups are so named because of the many hundreds of hours of needlwork required to produce them. Susani textiles originate in Central Asia: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and other countries where Uzbeks and Tadzhiks share similar textile [...]

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