Studio Bon Textiles pictured Top left: Scallop Black, Top Middle: XandO Pool/Lime, Knit Pool, Ric Rac Pool, Fuzz Pool, Twinkle Pool, Top Right: Ellen Black

Studio Bon Textiles pictured Bottom left to right: Richter Black, Popover custom color, Knit custom color, Sally Fire

1. XandO in Brick/Poodle, Studio Bon Textiles 2. Miniature Panton Heart-Shaped Cone Chair, MoMA STORE 3. Diamond Heart Stud Earrings, Barneys 4. Black Tie Bliss Decanter, Riedel 5. Natural Wood Teething/ Clutch Toy, Etsy Armadillo Dreams 6. Alter Ego Light Sconce, Corbett Lighting 7. Champagne Chic Chocolate, Dean & Deluca 8. Juliska Heart Cocktail Plates, Saks Fifth Avenue 9. Mr. and Mrs. Muse Mug, Jonathan Adler

1. Astair Nesting Tables, Z Gallerie  2. Cobble Hill Leslie Handbag, Kate Spade   3. Woody Floor Lamp, Design Public  4.  Lampert Sofa, Jonathan Adler  5. London Bridge in Fire, Studio Bon Textiles  6.  Swirl Sculptures, CB2   7. Stephen Antonson Mirror, West Elm

Happy Holidays to our invaluable Schumacher and Y&Co. reps, we hope you enjoy your goodies! Thanks for a great 2011!

My all-time design blog fave Grace Bonney, of designsponge.com, is coming to town tomorrow night as part of her Design Sponge Book Tour. (see earlier post for the generous feature she made on our behalf in her newly released book!)

I can’t wait to finally thank her in person for all she did to get Studio Bon Textiles on our feet in our earliest days! We are forever grateful for her support and generous spirit.

Please come by West Elm at Mockingbird Station at 7pm tomorrow night to welcome her yourself or just to catch a glimpse of this design world great in person!

Also, here is a cool mention from FDLuxe’s October issue promoting the West Elm Design Sponge event, featuring the Design Sponge book… and open to the page our home is on.  Pure luck! Thank you FDLuxe and Tracy Hayes. What a treat!

1. Dax Table, mitchell gold + bob williams  2. Sigg stainless lunchbox, Amazon.com  3. Futura Large Bowl, Jonathan Adler  4.  Scribe Writing Desk, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams  5. Blu Dot Watt floor lamp, Design Public  6.  Belle Sandal by Sigerson Morrison, couture.zappos.com  7. KC Satchel by Philip Lim, Neiman Marcus  8. Natasha Mirror, Oly Studio

So excited about beaing featured in House Beautiful this month! Pat Healing, of HB Home fame, has a beautiful color-forward project in this month’s House Beautiful beginning on page 128. Healing Barsanti, (the H & B) in HB Home  now has 5 stunning artfully curated retail design studio locations, and also takes on numerous private residential projects each year. The cover of House Beautiful this month is pulled from her soft lavender dining room!

I was flipping through and spotted a fun black and white pillow in the cool turqouise bedroom, and what do you know, it was our very own studio bon pattern Bang in Black. So fun! Love Pat’s bold sense of color, and her blending of vintage silhouettes with modern lines. HB Home, and their many talented designers, have  been loyal customers since our inception, and for that we are extremely grateful. Congrats to Pat and HB Home on a great cover and rainbow-bright  beautiful project!

Woo hoo! So excited about being featured in the brand-new, (early released this week) Design Sponge book, by Grace Bonney of famed blog designsponge. (BTW if you have even the slightest interest in design you must check this design mecca out.)Grace is one of my most admired and appreciated business women/design guru/ generous promoter of my business from-the-beginning heros! See our press history and the seed that started it all. Yep, Grace. She is truly interested in seeing other women, and folks in the design world, succeed, and does everything in her power to accompany them to the finish line.

When my collection was but a bud she saw something and decided to mention Studio Bon on www.designspongeonline.com… and that was the beginning. Long before distribution, customers, or any real brand. For a peek at the first press ever for the line click here.

So more than anything I am floored by and infinitely grateful for Grace Bonney’s generous spirit.

The book itself is truly beautiful with a hip metallic interior illustration on the cover and a freebie forward by homegood extraordinaire Jonathan Adler. If you are so inclined check out pages 54 and 55, (the cutest thing is definitely my daughter Georgia). There is even a pretty flower project on pg. 309, inspired by our pattern Popover from our green headboard featured on page 55.

If you love a new and beautiful coffee table book with accessible projects and fun design ideas, buy your own copy from Anthropologie here, from West Elm here,  or here from Barnes and Noble.

In August we received a fabulous submission for our Studio Bon in Context Photo Contest which we have been looking forward to sharing. (click here to see our illustrous winners!) Wendy Kaplan sent us these fabulous images of patterns Sally in Fire and Xando in Mink and Stone on these cool reimagined vintage chairs.

She opened her company, The Chair Affair, just 3 months prior to entering our contest, and has clearly hit the ground running! She calls Evanston Illinois home and it is there that she recovers vintage chairs and other upholstered pieces in bright modern graphic prints, then sells them to people in need of a little history with a lot of punch!

Here’s the description she submitted with her photos for the contest.

My chairs have an affinity for your fabric. The Pop Star Chair was a grandma-esque parlor chair, but once I put your Sally fabric in fire on it, it came to life. It both honors the original lines of the chair, and adds a unique modern perspective, not to mention a Wow! factor.

The XO chair – with your XandO fabric in mink/stone – is a classic mid-century chair with unique tapered legs and rich wood. I chose XandO because I loved the graphic design. It reminded me of Twentieth Century textile designer Alexander Girard, but with a 21st century sensibility, which is exactly what I wanted for these chairs. I also love the hand of the fabric – it’s natural and down-to-earth. 

Love her combinations of old world lines and graphic punches! A big thanks to Wendy and The Chair Affair for these inspired uses of Studio Bon Textiles!

We have been fortunate to receive some very generous editorial placement, as well as kind and enthusiastic words, from various press since our partnership launch with Schumacher in 2008. I am surprised and delighted anew each time we see our work in print. It’s like awaiting a much anticipated photo developing in the dark room. Each month we cautiously flip through the pages of our favorite pubs in hopes of catching a glimpse of our work through someone else’s lens.

I must say Elle Decor is a publication I have both long-admired and secretly hoped we would one day make it onto the pages of. If not for the recognition, or for reaching like-minded pupils of the world of design, for the company we keep when on the pages. Such stunning design work from residential and commercial projects, to featured products, to designer’s own homes, to (dare I say) the advertisers who flock to grace the non-editorial pages of this publication. It is the best of the best.

And to be here, I am greatly humbled and honored!

On another note, I was particulary tickled to hear that the editor of Elle Decor himself, Michael Boodro, came into the lovely Schumacher showroom in the D&D building on 3rd Ave. in New York, and requested our Oompa pattern for this issue. Floored.

Moving and exciting design lovers is what we aim to do with each pattern, each color, and each hand-printed yard. Thank you Elle Decor for featuring our e’r developing baby!