Designwire Daily: from the editors of Interior Design magazine

It may be Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, but fashion design isn’t the only game in town. Home decor is also in the spotlight at Bloomingdales with the launch of Diane von Furstenberg’s new DVF Home

read more >

The legendary American footwear brand and the Finnish textile designer are collaborating for the first time, on a women’s sneaker collection—including a version of the classic Chuck Taylor.

read more >

The lovely designs that Galbraith & Paul creates and hand-block prints onto fabric are now translated for the wall.

read more >

You can’t keep a funny man down. NBC may have pulled the plug on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brian,” but the comic is back—in style—with a new late-night talk show on TBS. Having carefully curated a spectacular new set, designers for “Conan” specified Jim Thompson fabric as part of Conan’s mise en scene.

read more >

Marimekko has had U.S. designers swooning for half a century. Last week the Finnish textile company announced it’s strengthening its roots on this side of the pond in not one, but two retail spots in the Big Apple.

read more >

The New York-based textile manufacturer announced it has reduced the greenhouse gas footprint of its operations to net zero after enlisted the carbon reduction experts at Vermont’s Native Energy.

read more >

Manufacturer Unifi has been greening the world for more than 10 years with their Repreve recycled polyester fibers, but today they’re renewing their commitment to sustainable practices and initiatives with new investments toward the backwards integration into the supply chain for recycled products and in a new joint venture focused on renewable energy.

read more >

The textile and wallcovering manufacturer’s Cradle to Cradle-certified Xorel textiles will now be offered as part of the modular interior construction company’s graded finishes program.

read more >

Both in-house and guest offerings from the company are imbued with nature themes—with a modern twist. The manufacturer’s director of design, Mary Jo Miller, for instance, looked to the shifting lines created by the tide’s ebb and flow for Shoreline Stripe, river rocks for Bedrock, and earthy ceramics for Clay Wall

read more >

Sara Balderi, senior designer at Momentum Textiles, contemplated the relationship between—and competing imagery of—architectural structures, projected lights, and cast shadows for the company’s Through Light and Shadow collection.

read more >