Nate Berkus and His New Fabric Line at Calico Corners

Along with a new line of bed, bath & decor accents for Target, Nate Berkus recently launched a great collaboration for a fabric line at Calico Corners. He has so many inspiring prints to chose from, on display at the entrance of Calico Corners. While at my local Calico Corners (in Scottsdale) I asked if by chance Nate might make a personal appearance + book signing at the shop -- Although they said no, I am hopeful (hint hint Nate!) With so many pretty patterns from Nate's line to chose from, Calico featured a great way to display them in your home: Use fabric samples as book covers! If you don't want to cover any of your existing or old books, you can definitely thrift for old books to cover... and add a little pattern to you book shelf style. Another great way to display your fave Nate Berkus fabric samples is to frame them for wall art (see my previous Framed Fabric Wall Art post) Here's a peek around Calico Corners, here in Scottsdale plus a chance to WIN a copy of Nate's book!

Cover old books with your fave new Nate fabrics!

 

 

 

 

Great pattern to recover a pair of slipper chairs!

While at Calico Corners, check out some of their other wonderful fabric choices, including Thom Filicia and Ralph Lauren plus many others...

 

Love the mix of maze, stripes and Ikat patterns in grey + gold...

 

 

Store display

And be sure to visit Calico Corners (even online) to enter for a chance to win a copy of Nate's new book, Things That Matter. Recently, Nate revealed himself in a two part interview about the book & his life on Oprah's show, Super Soul Sunday...

 

Enter here: Calico Corners Things That Matter book Give-away

 

Things That Matter - a MUST read and book to add to your design book collection.

 See Nate's interview here: Super Soul Sunday.

Also... be sure to check out all the great Nate prints at:

  Calico Corner's Nate Berkus board on Pinterest.

Thanks for stopping by!

ON THE HUNT

Hey everyone!! Yesterday was a fun day - I was sent out with a list and a mission to go hunting, gathering and exploring fabric shops - to collect samples for some upcoming custom projects! And I don't mean just popping into JoAnn's... I'm talkin' walking into a maze of fabric bolts, books and samples from vendors such as Kravit, Robert Allen and Beacon Hill, to seeing ton-age of trims & tiebacks. One shop I found while sourcing on the Internet was located just down the street from me called Tiffany's. It's a family run shop that has been there for more than thirty years. I loaded up on a few sample books to bring back to the studio, along with a few shots of fab fabrics around the shop.

Fresh Spring color combos

Radiant starburst prints

Foils on fabrics

Bling! Bling!

Great linens with prints

Amazing tiebacks

Quatrefoil prints

Fretwork prints

Reptile textures

Graphic prints

Ikats and Bohemian style prints

Afterwards, I headed south... and drove on an expressway I haven't been on in probably over fifteen years (the Palmetto)! I stopped off at shop, that use to be located up here in Hollywood, but relocated south to Bird Road in Miami called Ultra Fabrics. The manager I chatted with was so helpful, she even suggested another shop for me to check out: Fabric Gallery, located in the Bird Road Arts District. Ding! Ding! Another gold mine of trims and treasures, with more helpful people... so much so, they handed me the scissors and said "Cut what you want". 

After collecting some samples and talking a little more with the FG rep Terri, she said I might be interested in checking out a relatively new shop that the Fabric Gallery owners recently opened called Urban Loft. Although I was crunched for time (didn't want to get caught in  a sea of break lights at the airport expressway - the Dolphin) I dropped off my goodies at the car and headed over.  I got to speak with the shop owner, who not only let me take some pics of his shop, but let me know new merchandise would be arriving next week. I am definitely going to be making a trip back down there...



There are SO many more shops to explore at the Bird Road Arts District! I think I may have to bring my mom out with me Saturday ~ which the district also holds an art walk every third Saturday, to help support the area.