An Interview with Sina Pearson

Our industry is full of entrepreneurial, ambitious, creative, talented, people. I feel very lucky to know so many of them, including the textile designer Sina Pearson. Ms. Pearson’s career spans more than 40 years. She has served as the Director of Textiles at Jens Risom Design and as head of the textile division at Brickell Associates under the tutelage of Ward Bennett, and ultimately became President and Director of Design at Unika Vaev. In 1985 she co-founded the Association for Contract Textiles, ACT, and in 1990 she founded Sina Pearson Textiles. In 2016 she sold her eponymous company to the Momentum Group, where she continues to design outstanding fabric collections. She is widely acknowledged as one of the most important textile designers in the industry. This past week, I caught up with her for a discussion of her life, career and the work she’s contributed to the design community. Bob …