Velvet has spent most of its history being protected, kept for the formal room and the chair nobody used. Performance Velvet puts that luxurious texture into daily service, a velvet you can live with instead of around. These performance velvet upholstery fabrics are liquid- and stain-resistant and clean with soap and water, tested to withstand 100,000 double rubs.

Marseille was known for hand-corded quilting in the early eighteenth century, prized enough that England taxed the imports. By the 1740s an English loom was making the same raised pattern, and the cloth sold as Marseilles cloth.
Performance Matelassé is made the same way. Two cloths woven at once, bound only where the pattern calls for it, so the rest lifts into pockets with nothing inside them. Matelassé is French for padded, and the loom does the padding. Soft and velvety, 100% polyester, spill- and stain-resistant, tested to withstand 100,000 double rubs.

A solid can go flat over a large piece of furniture, turning color into a single uninterrupted block. Strié Velvet takes its name from the French for streaked, and the streaks are woven into the pile, not printed onto it: hair-thin parallel lines where the tone shifts, so the color is never quite even. The pile catches light unevenly, so the face carries soft shadow and movement. A traditional 100% cotton velvet, plush and dense under the hand, with a matte finish.

One velvet differs from the next mostly in its pile. Plush Velvet carries a longer, thicker one than a standard velvet, more yarn standing up off the backing, and that depth is what you feel first. The pile is also where the color lives. A deeper one holds more of it, and that is where the richness comes from. A 100% polyester velvet with a matte finish, durable and easy to care for.

Berber carpets have been handwoven in North Africa for centuries, their distinctive surfaces shaped by traditional weaving techniques. In upholstery, the name has come to describe a similarly tactile loop. The Berber Fabric Collection is a loop-pile upholstery fabric set more open and airy than a traditional bouclé. The extra space between the loops gives it a loftier, more relaxed texture. Tested to withstand 50,000 double rubs.

When Eero Saarinen designed the Womb Chair in 1948, he upholstered it in a nubbled bouclé, and postwar furniture found a texture to match its new soft forms. Wool Natural & Goldenrod Bouclé belongs to that tradition of using texture to make modern furniture feel more inviting. An Italian wool-blend bouclé upholstery fabric with a richly nubbled face and the hand of a good wool coat. Soft to the touch, with the strength upholstery requires.

Italian Chunky Bouclé has the thickest, plushest pile of the group, with loops large enough to see one by one. A chunky bouclé upholstery fabric woven in Italy from a blend of wool, alpaca, cotton, and acrylic.

Anni Albers spent a career arguing that a weaver has to think structurally, that a textile's pattern belongs to its construction and not to ornament laid over the top. Chunky Basketweave is that idea at full size.

Thick groupings of yarn interlace over and under in both directions, the crisscross of a woven basket at a much larger scale, until the grid itself is the pattern. The depth of it holds shadow, so a solid color moves between light and dark rather than sitting flat. Structural enough to keep a clean, tailored line on a frame.

Flanders was spinning flax before the countries around it had their present names, and Belgian linen still means something because of it.

Washed Belgian Linen is an upholstery fabric with over 50% linen content, washed for a softer, more relaxed hand than linen usually arrives with. The treatment does upfront what a few years of use would do anyway. A subtle mix of warm greys keeps the color moving, and linen only improves from here.

Our Burl Wood finishes celebrate the organic beauty of knotted Mappa Burl, offered in a warm natural tone revealing the wood’s intricate, one-of-a-kind character. 

Our Burl Wood finishes celebrate the organic beauty of knotted Mappa Burl, offered in a rich walnut stain revealing the wood’s intricate, one-of-a-kind character.