Beautiful Embroidery

Leong Interiors, one of our favorite customers, has expanded their offerings to include custom embroidery!  Take a look at the 12 x 18 lumbar pillows we had monogramed for friends.  If these pillows look as good to you as they do to us, you can contact Leong Interiors here or go to her website:  www.leonginteriors.com

IN STOCK: Fire Retardant Free Foam

Update June 2015 - Fire Retardant Polyurethane foam is now available!

In the near future we will be able to offer our customers foam that is free of fire retardant (FR).  If you would like to be contacted when the FR free foam is available please send us an email.  If you would like pricing, send us the measurements of your cushion cover's (see diagram below) depth, width and boxing. We will get back to you with pricing and information about the types of foam that will be available.

Dürer

We frequently have customers who are looking for very special pillows. They are the jewelry that completes the outfit so to speak. The covers are exquisite fabrics and trims that may evoke another time or place in personal history, or be the splash of color that ties everything together.  The common ground for these gems is the blend of down and feather that we manufacture to support the cover.  

We recently discovered these beautifully rendered pen and ink drawings of down pillows that were made by the 22 year old Albert Dürer in 1493.  We are delighted to see that nothing really has changed in the look of the down pillow, and that the pillows we make today, with a little use, look just like the pillows of 500 years ago.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Self-portrait, Study of a Hand and a Pillow (recto); Six Studies of Pillows (verso)

Beautiful Colors - The 2 Ply Bonded Polyester Hand Stitching/Jewelry Twine Has Arrived!

It's like a rainbow.  For all of your hand stitching needs, shoe & leather repair, upholstery & canvas stitching, beading and more.
Put up on 2 oz. tubes for $7 ea.
Colors: Red, White, Yellow, Natural, Beaver, Beige, Black, Blue, Green, Light Grey, Mahogany, Navy Blue, Olive Drab, Orange & Purple

Stuffing a Cushion Cover

Little House - Long Cushions

The Metropolitan Museum of Art regularly posts short audio/visual tours from their collection and this one on Frank Lloyd Wright's living room of the Little House features a few views of a pair of wonderfully long, long window seats bookended by perfectly proportioned bolsters.

These pictures make a strong case for making one long cushion for a window or bench seat instead of breaking the space up with 2 or 3 (or more!) cushions.  

It's graphically bold and comes with the added benefit of allowing the user to lie anywhere they want without encountering a break from one cushion to the next. 

An interesting choice was made to have the cushions come up short in width to allow the bolster to rest inside the space between the cushion and the wall.  

The Front Door Makeover - Smallworks Moves In

Woodworker extraordinaire Andrew Berg's company Smallworks recently moved into our building.  He frames art, he builds out stores, he didn't invent the lightbulb, but he built for it the coolest stand.  

We called in New Bohemia Signs to add Smallworks name to our front door.  Hand painted in an afternoon, our snappy sign soon announced the newest tenant of 3320 18th Street.