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Furniture

Striking sofas in Arthur G’s latest range

The Boss 3-seater in a Cloth Fabric design

We have our eyes on a few of the new lounges in Arthur G’s latest range. The Boss (below), in particular, is our favourite, with its Cloth Fabric indigo, painterly fabulousness! Divine! We love their Australian designed and made creations.

The Boss 3-seater in a Cloth Fabric design
The Boss 3-seater in a Cloth Fabric design

Much as I subscribe to the idea that large pieces like sofas should be purchased in neutrals, there are always exceptions to the rule, right?! The Colette (below) in duck egg, has a very ladylike, classic look and I love the contrast of its timber and brass feet.

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And last but not least, the Manhattan four-seater is making me reassess black leather as a sofa choice.

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Nice work, Arthur G!

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Interiors Addict

Cloth Fabric tea towels to raise money for bushfire-affected wildlife

Cloth Fabric’s Julie Patterson, who has her studio in Blackheath, has designed some  tea towels to raise money for native wildlife, after the bushfires got horribly close to her own home.

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Featuring echidnas and Banksias, all proceeds go to The Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife, of which she is an ambassador.

“I’ve chosen to draw an echidna because these animals are slow and vulnerable,” says Julie. “They can’t run fast. All they can do is curl up into a ball so there may well be injured ones around. The words on the tea towel tell you what to do if you come across an echidna needing your help.”

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Half price bargains at cloth fabric’s garage sale

From Thursday to Saturday, cloth fabric is having its first ever garage sale out the back of its William Street store. Owner Julie Paterson says you can expect “big fat bargains all over the place” as they make room in their store for a cafe. What a fab idea!

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There’ll be all sorts on sale, some at less than half price, including old chairs that need doing up, piles of fabric remnants, odd lamps, mix & match cushions, a handful of rugs, artwork, Julie’s drawings, lino prints, painted frames and even a few clothes. Sounds like a wonderful place for a rummage!

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A workshop to help you create a lovely home!

Well doesn’t this sound, well, LOVELY? A workshop to help you create a lovely home! It’s run by those nice people at cloth fabric and there’s only six spaces per class so get in QUICK.

Was your new year’s resolution to get your craft on or to add more personality to your home? This could be just the thing! 

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Interviews

Meet the duo behind the scenes at Designer Rugs

Lia (left) and Christine, senior designers at Designer Rugs

Known for its collaborations with high profile fashion designers like Akira Isogowa, interior designers like Greg Natale and brands like Dinosaur Designs, the grass roots creative force behind Designer Rugs is very much behind the scenes.

Lia (left) and Christine, senior designers at Designer Rugs
Lia (left) and Christine, senior designers at Designer Rugs

The company’s senior designers, Christine McDonald and Lia Pielli, have both been at Designer Rugs for more than a decade, give or take some short breaks to recharge their batteries, like all good artists. It is Christine and Lia who work with the often glamorous collaborators to bring their ideas to life and make sure, however beautiful they are, that they are actually likely to sell.

Around 80 percent of the company’s rugs are custom made and every design is available in different sizes and colour ways, meaning you really can create the perfect piece for your home or commercial space. “We have to feed off the industry,” says Lia. “We work with so many interior designers, we have a good nose for what’s coming up or what’s going to be popular.” Christine adds that people have really started to embrace colour again and she’s happy to see the back of a more safe pallete. “We’re always looking to fashion and overseas for inspiration too,” she adds.

One of Akira Isogowa’s designs

While interior trends don’t move as fast as fashion, the internet has certainly sped up the creative process.

One of the biggest challenges when collaborating, is persuading designers to design off the rugs, so that the pattern ‘falls off’ the edges so to speak. Many see the rug as a piece of paper or a canvas and try to create a pattern within it, which never works in the context of a rug.

Christine and Lia take it in turns working with the guest designers and the process can be very different, depending on their brand. “We generally let them come to us with what they want to do and then we translate it into a design that works for a rug and that we think will sell. We might change the scale or colour. Some designs translate really easily, others don’t,” says Christine. “And some designers want more input than others.” The whole process of bringing a new collection to market takes between a year and two years.

Christine's New York design
Christine’s New York design

The next collaboration is with fashion designer Camilla Franks and is due out early this year. The majority of the time, people approach Designer Rugs and ask to work with them, rather than the other way around. “For us the designs need to work as rugs. Some are beautiful but more appropriate for walls or fabric,” says Lia.

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Interiors Addict

The 1000th post giveaway with a $2000 prize pack for one lucky interiors addict!

Can you believe I’ve posted 1000 times (well, a few more than now, actually!)? I would say I can’t, but it’s not all that surprising to me! Nonetheless, I thought what a great excuse for the best giveaway I’ve ever done, and one that’s full of amazing prizes I know interiors addict readers will love! One lucky reader will win EVERYTHING and all you have to do is answer one question. The best answer will be judged by Belle magazine’s interior design editor Steve Cordony and interior designer Darren Palmer. So here’s what’s up for grabs, in no particular order (it keeps going and going)…

An A0-size limited edition signed print of Andrew O’Brien’s Pink, Turquoise on Ultramarine Ground, as seen on the cover of a recent Real Living magazine

 A timber outdoor setting from Freedom

A multi-coloured ikat canvas from Urban Road

A $100 voucher from Xavier & Me, which you might spend on their new cushions

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Help craft a colourful opening for new cloth store

cloth fabric has just moved into the ex-Ferrari showroom in Darlinghurst and owner Julie Paterson is putting on a crafty show for its opening by Lord Mayor Clover Moore.

With wraparound floor to ceiling windows and a leafy, accessible courtyard out the front, the new space is perfect for the community projects cloth has planned for Spring. Upcycling workshops with the City of Sydney, a guerrilla style public knit-punk project and craft hangouts with Google+ are all on the agenda.

The new cloth shop will be officially opened on Wednesday 29 August at 6pm by Clover Moore and Steve Pozel from Object Gallery. Julie is looking for helpers to help make the area look as crafty and colourful as possible and has been very busy herself, painting the RTA box for one thing!

But she’d love more crafty goodness to hang from the trees at the opening and really put on a show. Bring your knitted squares to dress the trees, your crocheted scarves to accessorise bike racks, your bunting to garland the lamp posts and your pom poms for street jewellery

If you can help, please take along old scarves, pom poms or pieces of knitting to the shop between 11am and 4pm tomorrow! For more information and an invitation to the event, email [email protected].

Pom poms made from cloth fabric ready to decorate!

cloth fabric | 113 – 115 William Street | Darlinghurst 2010 | 02 9699 2266

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Calling all crafters and quilters!

Textile designer extraordinaire Julie Paterson of cloth fabric is selling last season’s fabrics at a bargain price and is even providing the creative inspiration for what to do with them!

“Lately we’ve been getting some lovely surprise parcels in the mail. It’s because we’ve been updating our swatch books and our retailers have been kindly sending our old fabric samples back. Forgotten designs, discontinued colours, early prints, are all flowing back into the shop, much to our delight,” she says.

Julie’s bundled them all up according to colour and they’re available for sale on her online shop. If you’re craftily-inclined, check them out before they all get snapped up!

And look what clever Julie has already whipped up herself! This funky shoulder bag is called a ‘Swatchel’. Love it! Why don’t you try making one of your own?

A bundle of premium fabric goodness! Think of the possibilities! I’m thinking cushions and patchwork quilts!
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Art

Win an original artwork by Julie Paterson

You all loved the pictures of Julie Paterson’s latest collection for Designer Rugs in her Blue Mountains cottage earlier this week. Now she’s giving you the chance to win a little bit of the design process in the form of an original painting for your own home. 

Julie has taken four of her best rug designs and overlaid them with four of her key fabric designs, playing about with composition and colour to create Remixed, a new collection of eight rugs that respectfully riffs on the popular cloth originals.

To illustrate this process, the artist and textile designer has created an edition of screen prints inspired by the rugs, reflecting the next stage in the back and forth of her process. She’s showing them at Global Gallery in Paddington but you can win one of the pieces of art that didn’t make the final cut.

To be in with a chance of winning simply pop over to cloth fabric’s Facebook page, tell her Interiors Addict sent you and why you’d love one of her pieces in your home. A winner will be chosen on Wednesday.

“The artwork is one of the pieces that didn’t make the final hang for the show,” says Julie. “These pieces form part of the process and I want to increase awareness of the process where so much more work gets created than ever gets to see the light of day. This work in its own right has merit.”

She’ll eventually be selling some of the other pieces that didn’t make the exhibition in her Surry Hills shop for up to $500 each.

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Cloth’s Julie Paterson creates third collection for Designer Rugs

Good design improves with time and attention, which is how Julie Paterson of cloth fabric created her new collection with Designer Rugs.

“It’s not always about what is new, the question is what can we re-imagine from what we’ve already created?”

Julie has taken four of her best rug designs and overlaid them with four of her key fabric designs, playing about with composition and colour to create Remixed, a new collection of eight rugs that respectfully riffs on the popular cloth originals.

To illustrate this process, the artist and textile designer extraordinaire has created an edition of screen prints inspired by the rugs, reflecting the next stage in the back and forth of her process.

Check out some photos of the rugs in Julie’s gorgeous Blue Mountains fibro cottage below.

You can view the paintings alongside the new rugs at Global Gallery in Sydney’s Paddington, where the Remixed collection is being launched this month. Find out more at the cloth Facebook page.

Her third collection with Designer Rugs talks about how design can mature with time. “That design can take on a journey of refinement. By redefining placement, composition and process we can start to develop an idea of the contemporary classic that looks at longevity rather than being obsessed with the next new thing,” says Julie.

“It’s about slow design really. Remixed is a show that encapsulates this, highlighting how my art practise influences my design process and on again to my art.”

And perhaps, in today’s need-it-now society, it’s something we could all learn from?

“Design influences art influences design,” says Julie. “Returning and reconsidering the familiar can turn a well designed piece into a modern classic.”

They’re all great but personally, I think ‘Wattle Shadow’ (immediately below and shown outside Julie’s studio) is quite stunning and bang on this year’s orange trend.

And here’s a sneak peek of some of the artwork in progress. Look out for a special Interiors Addict giveaway this weekend where you can win a piece of Julie’s art that didn’t make it into the final exhibition! 

In the meantime, check out the cloth Facebook page for all the latest.