New & Noteworthy

Introducing the Virtual Showroom

We've got some big news around these parts!!! We’ve just soft-launched our new to-the-trade VIRTUAL SHOWROOM and we couldn't be more pumped about bringing this enhanced functionality to y'all!⁠

Approved trade accounts are now able to log in to shop our textile and wallcovering lines at designer net pricing. So whether you want to access trade pricing in an instant, request free memos, or place orders for yardage, you'll be able to do it all, anytime night or day, in our Virtual Showroom.⁠

We’ve kicked things off with four lines - Brett Design, Ferrick Mason, KLS Textiles and Seema Krish - and ALL of our other lines will be added on the regular until each one of our beloved boutique textile and wallpaper lines are shoppable. Also - spoiler alert! - the entire Visual Comfort lighting line will be coming to our Virtual Showroom super soon too.⁠

Ready to access the Virtual Showroom? Here’s how…

Good Reads: Décors Barbares, The Enchanting Interiors of Nathalie Farman-Farma

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.

Seema Krish's ‘Friday Five’ INTERVIEW with CLOTH & KIND

Last week, we had a wonderful virtual chat with Seema Krish for her “Friday Five” Journal Series. From the origins of our showroom to our favorite of Seema’s textiles and wallpapers, we had a blast talking about all things to-the-trade. Seema actually just released a fabulous new set of designs - we have attached some first-hand images below for a nice glimpse at her freshest patterns & some of our favorite classics. Her beautiful and elaborate designs will leave you in complete awe, guaranteed!

KLS Sneak Peek

KLS Sneak Peek

Y’all! We couldn’t be more thrilled to share a sneak peek of what’s to come this Fall from KLS. Kate has been working on this new block printed collection in India for the last year - we even had the chance to meet up with her there last December while this collection was in the works!

Elle Décor's 2020 A-List Interior Designers + Visual Comfort

Elle Décor's 2020 A-List Interior Designers + Visual Comfort

We are sending heartfelt congratulations to all of the totally stellar designers that made Elle Décor’s 2020 A-List: 125 of the Best Interior Designers in the World. And we absolutely loved seeing how many of these influential designers lend their brilliance to Visual Comfort, which is proudly represented in our to-the-trade showroom. Won’t you join us in a rousing round of applause for Visual Comfort and this amazing group of designers?!

COM + Save Program

COM + Save Program

In our to-the-trade showroom, we represent some pretty stellar furniture lines that are at the forefront of quality, customization, and design. On the regular, we’re sourcing from Hickory Chair, Cisco Home (formerly Cisco Brothers), and vanCollier in our own design projects and nothing makes us happier than outfitting a high-quality upholstery piece in one of our favorite artisanal textile lines. Are you with us?!

Eric Egan x Fromental

Eric Egan x Fromental

Eric Egan x Fromental for the well-designed WIN!

Milan's design week may have been postponed this year, but Fromental proceeded with the release of three stunning wallpaper designs in collaboration with interior designer Eric Egan. In fact, the new wallcoverings are showcased in Egan’s late 19th-century apartment and the headquarters of his design practice, L’Artigianato, which overlooks the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.

Get Outside

Get Outside

There’s not a client out there who hasn’t requested super durable fabrics for their bustling kid and dog-filled homes - and the range of indoor/outdoor, performance fabrics on the market today is incredible to help designers fill that need where there was previously a huge void. We used to rely on the big fabric houses to provide a well-designed array of performance textiles but what’s NEW and exciting is that smaller, artisanal lines are in the game too! And thank goodness, because with them comes a gobsmacking array of original and super cool fabrics that wear just as well indoors as they do out.

Lighting In Situ

Lighting In Situ

There’s nothing quite like seeing lighting in situ. Not just in basic vendor shots, but when talented designers incorporate fixtures into their work the product shines in a whole new way (pun intended)! Not sure about you, but we’re continuously gathering inspirational images over on our lighting board on Pinterest to be able to share reference shots with our clients who oftentimes need a visual to understand the scale and sense of incredible presence a fixture will bring to their space.

Zoom Gorgeousness

Raise your hand if you’ve been on one too many video calls as of late (entire country thrusts their hands sky-high!) We jest, but it’s actually pretty amazing to be able to use technology like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. to stay connected during this COVID-19-induced quarantine. We can’t even fathom what this whole debacle would have been like before modern-day conveniences like these.

And now, thanks to some wildly creative textile and wallcovering artisans, your Zoom meetings can be majorly elevated. Two of our lines, Seema Krish and Fromental, have created a series of free downloadable backgrounds to keep us all inspired and our surrounds looking super fine.

Allow us to tell you about them…

Here are just a handful of the images you’ll be able to snag. There are so many more are available on their websites for you to use (links below).

Download your Seema Krish Zoom backgrounds here and your Fromental Zoom backgrounds here, and be sure to use the hashtags #clothandkindshowroom + #zoomwithseemakrish or #zoomwithfromental when you share on social to let us all see which backgrounds are your favorites. Thanks, Seema and Fromental!

Be well, y’all.

Virtual Business Chat With Krista & Tami

These are nothing short of totally surreal times which are made even more stressful if you’re a small business owner. Since the moment that the COVID-19 pandemic came onto our radar, we’ve been totally nervous about the impact it would undoubtedly have on our interior design studio and our to-the-trade showroom. It feels as if we’ve been in near-constant communication with our financial manager, our bank, our attorneys, other small business owners and peers, and on and on and on! We’ve been listening to podcasts, dialing in to designer-centric group calls, reading all the news, and still - the learning curve is just so. dang. steep. And we know why it is steep - because these are truly unprecedented times (the word that everyone and their brother has used in communication about the virus - are we right, or are we right?!) But it’s accurate because unprecedented times, they are. There is no rule book for how to handle something as ginormous as this global pandemic. No rule book for when to lay off team members who are like your second family, or should you furlough them? There’s no rule book for how to try to keep business moving forward when the world around us has all but ceased operating, no rule book for how to plan for the possibility of months on end with dramatically decreased revenue. So there we have it. We’re all just trying to figure this shit out. Not sure about you, but we’d love nothing more than to hop on a virtual call with you and talk shop. You know things we don’t know and we know things you don’t know so let’s get on a virtual business chat to share and discuss, let’s commiserate and celebrate the small wins. We’re always an open book when it comes to talking with our peers, but now more than ever we truly need to support one another as a community.

CAVEAT! We most definitely WON’T be looking like we do in the photo below when we’re on our virtual call. Guarantee you that at least one of us will be working from bed and both of us will be in our comfy clothes with our hair in a high pony. Just saying. These calls are 100% a no judgement zone.

We truly look forward to seeing you on our computer screens soon. In the meantime, stay safe and be well.