By Quinn Riley
Textile designer Nathalie Farman-Farma’s highly anticipated book is finally out and we're giving away 10 signed copies to interior designers who purchase 5+ yards of any Décors Barbares textiles. For 3+ yard orders, you'll get a darling one-of-a-kind handcrafted bookmark made from Nathalie's fabrics. The Enchanting Interiors of Nathalie Farman-Farma takes readers on a beautiful visual journey through Nathalie’s homes in London, Lake Tahoe, and Connecticut, all brimming with folkloric charm and histories from the textile cultures of Persia, Central Asia, and Russia. Follow along below to get a glance at some of these incredibly ornate scenes from Nathalie’s life, and explore her rich textile line right here in our showroom.
"Of all the big-gun design books coming out this season, none has been more hotly anticipated than that of the textile designer and alchemist Nathalie Farman-Farma. The pages of Décors Barbares: The Enchanting Interiors of Nathalie Farman-Farma depict a world of pattern upon pattern, of nostalgia for a past that Mongiardino made grand, Zeffirelli made fantastical, but only Nathalie made sweet, cool, and relatable."
— Elle Decor
"Décors Barbares costars [Farman-Farma’s] personal spaces from the atelier at her London residence to an 1890s house in Greenwich, Connecticut. The addresses may be far-flung, but each celebrates her Silk Road chic with a spirited marriage of the vibrant palettes of Central Asia to the plump silhouettes of 19th-century Europe."
— Architectural Digest
"Nathalie Farman-Farma’s interiors would not look out of place in a painting by Pierre Bonnard, with their artfully layered textiles and carefully chosen antiques striking a still-life pose at every turn. It helps, of course, that she does not have any clients to please here, allowing her creativity to run unfettered through her own and her family’s beautiful houses. It is thanks to this style unrestrained that we can experience the French-American designer’s vision at full tilt in this beautiful new book, each scene captured in painterly perfection by the photographer Miguel Flores-Vianna."
— House & Garden
"While the house, on a promontory that overlooks Long Island Sound, is hardly au courant, Farman-Farma has nonetheless helped it evolve: Over the years, she has reimagined the interiors as a reflection of her peripatetic personal history and her well-researched ethnographic obsessions. With references that careen from Russian fairy tales and Uzbek ceramics to the rustic cabins of the Sierra Nevada and the soignée interiors of the World War II-era Parisian decorator Madeleine Castaing, Farman-Farma’s aesthetic catholicism melds seamlessly with the house’s East Coast establishment origins."
— T Magazine
Licensed member of the trade? Explore the full Décors Barbares line in our showroom and let us know which memos you’d like. It all starts by applying for your trade account…
