KnollTextiles Launches the 2016 Collection of Knoll Luxe by Dorothy Cosonas
KnollTextiles is thrilled to introduce a new Knoll Luxe collection. Using the runway as her muse, KnollTextiles Creative Director Dorothy Cosonas’ Luxe collections are high fashion for interiors. Each launch explores material, construction and color. The textiles in Luxe are woven with natural yarns such as cotton, linen and wool.
The crave-worthy Knoll Luxe collection fills a need for rich solids and textures, along with designers’ desire for pattern and color. The thoughtful and harmonious color work consistent throughout the collection belies the fact that each of the six patterns are woven at different mills across the world.
The 2016 Knoll Luxe collection includes five upholstery fabrics (two patterns and three textures) and a 100% wool drapery.
Upholstery
Jasmine is an embellished large-scale multi color up the roll stripe. Four embroidery techniques are utilized to capture an artisanal aesthetic. The palette ranges from neutrals with softer tones to high contrast combinations.
Jasmine/K2077
Width: 55″
Contents: 87% cotton, 13% polyester
Abrasion: 50,000+ double rubs Wyzenbeek
Color Options: 5
Petite Floral is a small-scale casual and sophisticated floral with a pattern layout and color palette that make it usable across markets. Petite Floral is an elegant but fun counterpoint to the large-scale floral designs that dominate the fashion runway today. Petite Floral is 100% cotton and made in the USA.
Petite Floral/K2087
Width: 54″
Contents: 100% cotton
Abrasion: 95,000+ double rubs Wyzenbeek
Color Options: 6
Amore, which means love, is a sumptuous velvet. The palette is opulent with strong saturated tones. As a 100% cotton high pile velvet, Amore will blossom over its lifetime, presenting subtle shifts with the movement of its dense pile.
Amore/K2080
Width: 54″
Contents: 100% cotton
Abrasion: 100,000+ double rubs Wyzenbeek
Color Options: 8
Demure embodies serenity with its simple beauty and tranquil palette. The combination of wool and linen in both (warp and weft) directions give Demure subtle texture and personality. Less is more with Demure, the epitome of minimalist chic.
Demure/K2023
Width: 51″
Contents: 56% wool, 44% linen
Abrasion: 40,000 cycles Martindale
Color Options: 6
Tivoli is a lush lightly textured chenille in a calming palette of warm and cool neutrals. The finish on Tivoli creates loftiness to the pile, adding to the soft hand, while viscose provides slight luster to the surface of the fabric.
Tivoli/K2063
Width: 55″
Contents: 50% cotton, 32% Viscose, 18% polyester
Abrasion: 30,000+ double rubs Wyzenbeek
Color Options: 7
Drapery
Lana is a 100% wool drapery reminiscent of the finest wool suiting. Incredibly soft to the touch and elegant in every way, Lana has a lightweight and very fine drape. This 61″-wide fabric is available in a soft and sophisticated palette.
Lana/D2054
Width: 61″
Contents: 100% wool
Color Options: 6
About KnollTextiles
KnollTextiles is under the creative direction of Dorothy Cosonas, who combines clean, clear color with modern, elegant patterns and textures. In 2005 Cosonas was named the 11th Creative Director of KnollTextiles. Her inaugural collection won a Best of NeoCon Gold award – her first of seven along with six Silver awards for Knoll. In 2008, she founded Knoll Luxe, the fashion-forward luxury component of KnollTextiles, where she has contributed her own designs along with collaborations with renowned fashion designers such as Proenza Schouler, Rodarte and Maria Cornejo. Her work was a major part of a KnollTextiles 2011 retrospective exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center and has been accepted into the permanent collection of Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Museum. Founded by Florence Knoll in 1947, KnollTextiles is a division of Knoll, Inc., and maintains a marketing and design studio at 1330 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York.
