New York luxurious designer Joseph Altuzarra has teamed with house furnishings model Kravet Couture on a set of unique house textiles and wall coverings.
Noting that interiors have at all times been an vital supply of inspiration, Altuzarra instructed WWD that two years in the past, the partnership began very organically.
“Because the model has grown and expanded, we’ve actually prolonged our language exterior of our core merchandise. First, clearly into issues like luggage and sneakers and equipment however as we began pondering larger and extra about what Altuzarra as a way of life appears to be like like, house was one thing that I used to be actually enthusiastic about,” he mentioned. “It’s one thing that I’m captivated with personally.”
Kravet Couture x Altuzarra
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Concurrently, and coincidentally, Altuzarra had bought a brand new house whereas the gathering was being developed. He mentioned it was good to have the ability to view the designs by way of not solely his artistic dressmaker standpoint, but in addition by way of a private lens.
“Considering, ‘Would I take advantage of this? The place would I take advantage of this?’” he recalled. “Hopefully it responds extra with what a buyer would need,” noting that a number of preliminary concepts he liked on paper — as an paintings or colorway — however they didn’t essentially translate into one thing he would want inside his own residence as an allover wallpaper.
The ultimate end result contains 9 wallpaper and cloth types, every with an array of colorway choices, impressed by Altuzarra’s library of artworks, crafted in collaboration with Kravet Couture’s craftsmanship and experience as a fifth-generation household commerce enterprise established in 1918. The road options jewel-toned and earthy prints, weaves and wall coverings, reimagined from Altuzarra’s fashions (impressed by Greek mythology and nature) for the house.
Kravet Couture x Altuzarra
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“What was so thrilling was that the workforce at Kravet actually responded to the thought of bringing our print archive and our best-known artworks to life by way of their experience and data and craftsmanship. That was one thing that was additionally thrilling to me, as a result of I didn’t essentially wish to reprint issues as they’d existed in clothes,” Altuzarra mentioned, noting he appreciated Kravet design workforce’s data about jacquards, weaves and new methods of making texture.
“[Kravet] has an unimaginable wealth of data about house, textile and wall coverings typically. Each time that we’ve carried out one thing exterior of our scope, it’s at all times been actually vital for us to work with people who find themselves actually passionate, but in addition who’re actually leaders inside their business,” Altuzarra mentioned.
Kravet Couture x Altuzarra
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Highlights of the gathering embrace the Moth Weave woven jacquard cloth; the Kasos cloth and the Izumo velvet cloth and woven high quality sisal wallpaper that includes small gold flecks (each impressed by Altuzarra’s signature silk spun shibori prints), and the Caspia linen satin cloth and sisal wallpaper, derived from one among Altuzarra’s signature prints, to call a number of.
As well as, the gathering’s Akasania type, that includes a sample impressed by the Rorschach inkblot print, was rendered utilizing the identical Italian mill’s Suri alpaca fibers that Altuzarra initially labored with for his fall 2023 assortment’s lofty coat (which served as inspiration for the house type).
Kravet Couture x Altuzarra
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“Apparently, a number of the mills that we ended up working with for the [collaboration’s] materials, we ended up loving a lot that we ended up working with them [at Altuzarra],” he added.
The Kravet Couture x Altuzarra types are offered by the yard with costs to the commerce, obtainable in Kravet showrooms nationwide.
