Interior designer Charlotte Moss has spent a lifetime creating elegant and inspired rooms. Now she has brought that signature style to her new collection of 92 decorative fabrics and 75 color-coordinated trims, all available at retail at the Calico Corners – Calico Home stores across the country and online at http://www.calicocorners.com.
Kennett Square, PA (PRWEB) January 05, 2012
at Calico Corners – Calico Home stores
Pretty patterns and updated classics in prints and jacquards arrive from noted designer, author and style-setter Charlotte Moss.
Interior designer Charlotte Moss has spent a lifetime creating elegant and inspired rooms. Now she has brought that signature style to her new collection of 92 decorative fabrics and 75 color-coordinated trims, all available at retail at the Calico Corners – Calico Home stores across the country and online at http://www.calicocorners.com.
With this collection, Moss brings to life her favorite designs in painterly patterns, pretty colors and a wonderful marriage of textures. "I approached this collection almost as if it were a wardrobe for rooms," explains Moss. "I feel fabrics should be instantly appealing, elegant and comfortable, and adaptable to different rooms and uses." Making the collection well rounded—with lots of coordinates in wovens and prints and trimmings—was an important goal. "I want to inspire the customer to create her own vision—her look—with enough choices to do it easily and stylishly," adds Moss.
Many fabrics in the Charlotte Moss collection are inspired by antique textile documents and vintage clothing picked up on her travels. Other patterns are drawn from nature or adapted from motifs that she uses again and again in her residential design work.
Charlotte Moss' interest in design began when she learned to sew in eighth-grade home economics classes. With saved babysitting money, she stitched up clothing for herself, plus curtains, dust ruffles and slipcovers to redecorate her room. Young Charlotte's sister was her first client in these ventures. That passion for decorating grew. "Years later, newly married, I sewed and I shopped at Calico Corners," recalls Moss. Eventually, she left a career marketing tax shelters in New York City when her firm was bought out, cashed a bonus check and started Charlotte Moss Interior Design.
She has been creating a name for herself ever since, with high profile design projects, magazine features, distinctive designer showhouse rooms and seven books published. Charlotte Moss Decorates is the most recent title, also available at Calico.
"We think the fabrics in the Charlotte Moss collection will resonate perfectly with the Calico customer," notes Lori Cropp, merchandise manager for the 90+ Calico Corners – Calico Home stores. "For the customer who loves traditional design, there are classic patterns, paisleys and vining florals rendered in fresh, updated colors. There is even a design with a printed passementerie border that appears to be a braided trim." Border prints look novel again, adds Cropp, noting that they can be used for custom window treatments with the border accenting the leading edge of a drapery or the hem of a valance or a bedskirt. The border can also be cut off and appliquéd around the hem of a chair skirt, coverlet or tableskirt.
"For those who prefer a more transitional style," says Cropp, "there are stylish patterns with graphic elements from baskets and garden gates, wood grain designs and a dramatic ombred strié damask.
"People are often afraid of mixing patterns for fear the result will look too busy," notes Moss in a recent interview with Architectural Digest. "But I love the conversation that the layering of fabric creates." With 92 fabrics in the Charlotte Moss collection, there is opportunity for lots of good conversation while creating a beautiful room.
About Calico Corners
Calico Corners – Calico Home stores provide expert decorating advice and free in-home design consultation in more than 90 stores across the country. Consumers will find thousands of designer fabrics for the home at value prices; custom window treatments, blinds and shades; custom upholstered furniture, slipcovers, bedding and more. Thousands of fabrics are available online. For more information or to find the nearest store, visit http://www.CalicoCorners.com or call (800) 213-6366.
Contact: Jan Jessup
(610) 444-9700, Ext. 262
publicrelations(at)calicocorners(dot)com or jjessup(at)calicocorners(dot)com
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Jan Jessup
Calico Corners - Calico Home
(610) 444-9700 x262
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