Actress, textile designer, world traveler, antique collector, producer—Clare Louise Frost lives a spirited and energetic life. “I feel very lucky that I get to do the work I love,” says Clare, as she chats from TAMAM, the East Village shop that she co-founded with textile designer Elizabeth Hewitt of Tulu Textiles and antiques dealer Huseyin Kaplan of Karavan. As we talk, Clare is surrounded by an arrangement of alluring goods from her travels throughout India, Morocco, Afghanistan, and Turkey. From Vintage Uzbek bowls to Indian Lehenga skirts to an array of hand-embroidered textiles, each shop item in TAMAM tells its own story. Patterns from Clare Louise Frost’s textiles line, one of our to-the-trade showroom lines, can be found throughout her shop, covering pillows, adorning slippers, and printed on highly-coveted silk scarfs and sarongs.
Cabana Magazine's 'Masters and Muses' with Nathalie Farman-Farma
We were thrilled to see Décors Barbares designer Nathalie Farman-Farma on IGTV with Cabana Magazine’s editor in chief, Martina Mondadori Sartogo this past week. Martina and Nathalie discussed all things inspiration, from elaborately layered caftans to beaded Ukranian jewelry. Nathalie shared her deep admiration for the humanities, specifically her academic past with the study of classical antiquity, her present admiration for Russian culture, and her new interest in Japan and China. She credits the complexity of her multi-cultural designs to the beautiful cross-pollination of different geographic areas as a result of trade advancement. ‘It’s the trade really. These trade objects [costumes, jewelry, books, bits of ribbon and trim] went all over the world…,’ says Nathalie, as she shares her collection of antique textiles from endless different origins.