THE GOODY BAG: RALPH LAUREN
It's Alissa of The Goods Design here, bringing you the best of the best of Los Angeles' interior design events, people, places and things. This week I popped into the Kravet showroom for a little Ralph Lauren Home fete. Delicious food + gorgeous fabrics = a designer who loves her job.
It seems like the next big thing these days is taking a step away from the very "designed" interiors, and moving more towards a layered look - as though it was collected over time throughout your travels.
Love it. Please sign me up immediately.
It seems like the next big thing these days is taking a step away from the very "designed" interiors, and moving more towards a layered look - as though it was collected over time throughout your travels.
Love it. Please sign me up immediately.
Gorgeous inspiration image from this season's Ralph Lauren Home collection. I'm obsessed with that leather chair (if you are looking for something to buy me).
The event was focused on debuting some of their new fabrics, and I fell for a few of them... like this brown zebra print (but let's be honest, I never met a zebra print I didn't love).
Believe it or not, this is a silk. It looks like something you might have picked up on your travels in India, but soft as a baby's you-know-what.
RL also revealed their upcoming outdoor collection, and that's when the oooh's and ahh's really started to happen. Their outdoor fabrics are amazingly soft and this inspiration image has me ready to throw a garden party. Now.
More gorgeous (outdoor) fabrics included an embroidered sheer based off the African kuba-cloth.
This blue ikat (on the right) combines everyone's favorites - an exotic ikat AND a chevron. Win-win! And the blue paisley on the left would be an insane outdoor drapery or banquette cushion.
I loved hearing about the design process (they create a fictional character and create an entire collection around that person) but once the fabrics were passed around, I really started to swoon. Linens with a gorgeous gold sheen, luxurious silks, timeless animal prints. So many of the fabrics came with a patina - already sun-kissed or tea-stained. I was in decorator heaven.
*all inspiration images from the Ralph Lauren Home website, all fabric photos taken by Alissa Swedlow
18 comments:
such luscious fabrics and wonderful design inspiration; i have some rather neutral, contemporary-structured love sofas, and now would love to add some throw covers to them with similar designs.
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Beautiful fabrics. Can Ralph do anything wrong? I don't think so.
Teresa
xoxo
love RL fabrics...classic and timeless...love his outdoor fabrics as well...
maureen
Incredibly beautiful imagery! Loving all of the textiles and the organic feel to each space!
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I love the RL home collection. The fabrics are so organic looking and just beautiful!
amazing fabrics that i literally just want to scoop up. :)
I was just at the Ralph Lauren Home Store on Madison. AMAZING!xx
Melanie
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I like it, I'm over the hollywood regency look. This seems so much more livable.
I die for the indoor/outdoor ikat!
These fabrics are gorgeous!! LOVING!!!! Check out my jewlery giveaway!!
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that first image is beautiful! and the fabrics--gorgeous..each one of them! thanks for sharing..have a lovely new week, cassandra..do visit my blog when you have a moment! xx meenal
wow love the fabrics
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first of all, the leather chair is fab. Secondly, Alissa, I just checked out The Good Design, and all of your gorgeousness over there has already sucked up waaaay too much of my morning. THANKS ALOT! ; )
The paisley is gorgeous! Coveting....
Total Gorgeousness! I can't believe the zebra print is silk. Lovely!
All the pics and featured goods are delish, but what actually stood out most were some of your words... "a layered look - as though it was collected over time throughout your travels." I LOVE that! It leads to more eclecticism in your space and each of your items can tell a little story...
Milica
VintageHeist
Love the first shot especially. So very Ralph. All of it is as exquisite as always. Nobody does it like RL.
I love that idea. We did something similair to that when trend forecasting for a class. I love the ikat inspired fabric at the bottom.
XO Hilary Nicole
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