I wasn’t due for another post yet, but the juxtaposition of this extraordinary Monique Lhuillier gown worn by Sarah Michelle Gellar to the Golden Globes last night and a half written post about Eskayel‘s new collection of rugs for Doris Leslie Blau sent me straight to my computer. While I have written about shibori (Japanese tie dye) before I have never seen such a literal and amazingly modern translation of this traditional art form as that dress. Say what you like, and I know some have put this on their “worst dressed” list (although many more on the “best dressed”), it truly is a spectacular show stopper!
Lluillier has some other dresses with that shibori feeling, but they also remind me of artist Shanan Campanaro’s amazing fabrics and wall coverings for Eskayel.
Having written about them before, it may come as no surprise to see them here again, although this time, translated into carpets for the floor in her new collection with rug doyenne Doris Leslie Blau.
Campanaro’s digitally manipulated watercolors have been re-colored in this new collection. You’ll need to stare closely at her Dynasty wallpaper hanging next to the new Dynasty rug to see that they are the same pattern, just colored and highlighted differently.
She also features some great new projects on the Eskayel blog, including this apartment from Jami Supsic Designs.
Those Wegner Wishbone chairs again.
They are everywhere and come in the most amazing colors these days…
This dark blue Samui Sunrise paper is so cozy and welcoming in the bedroom.
Another project by designer Sylvia Reyes uses Eskayel’s Aquarius wallpaper to great effect in this Puerto Rico apartment.
And guess what? Eskayel wallpaper is now available in Japan at Walpa. Walpa carries all the “cool wallpaper brands” and is looking to bring a new appreciation for patterned walls to Japan.
Related Posts:
A Little Shibori Feeling From Eskayel and Anthropologie
Image credits: 1. via temptalia, 2-5. via Neiman Marcus, 6. via Eskayel, 7. via New York Magazine November 2011, photo credit: Wendy Goodman, 8-9, 12. Jami Supsic Designs, via Eskayel, 10-11. Danish Design Store, 13-14. Sylvia Reyes via Eskayel
I thought her dress was phenomenal and totally reminded me of shibori!
From how much interest I have been getting about it on the blog – it looks like it has raised a lot of others people’s interest too.
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Wow! Just as I’m about to comment on a post a new one pops up! I am definitely not complaining though. I loved that dress too. I’m not a fan of the Shanan Camponaro for Eskayel stuff. They look just like Rorschach tests. I hate to be brutally honest but I actually think I would need therapy if I had to see them everyday (I do like the Aquarius wallpaper though). I believe the use of software is really to blame here. Just replicating a single image can result in a very inorganic looking design. Software like Photoshop is a wonderful tool but I think a lot of the art of designing fabric( and everything else) is being lost by its overuse.
Part of what I like so much about it is that the watercolors she works from and her color choices make something modern & digital seem so organic – do you know what I mean? And in their repetitiveness they also become neutral too….
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I just saw this post from last year – I just got 3 huge Eskayel pillows for Tokyo
! I also have grey shibori in our beach house.