by Shane Henson — February 20, 2013—Facilities managers charged with decorating corporate environments may find help making their office spaces more lively with rich new upholstery fabrics offered as part of the HBF Textiles spring collection.
The company, which also designs upholstered wall and drapery products, recently released a textural and graphic group of contract textiles with high-performance attributes for corporate environments. Inspired by European menswear and vintage finds, the series is comprised of five patterns; two new signature designs—Abito and Velvet Tie—and three current patterns with expanded color lines—Belgian Meadow, Spun and Heartfelt.
Priced from $33 to $143 per yard, HBF Textiles says its spring 2013 collection offers heavy-duty abrasion characteristics and Nano-Tex high-performance stain-resistant finish on three of the five patterns.
Italian for suit, Abito features an archetypal linen heathering with natural slubs that are inherent in the face of this luxurious material. Woven in Italy at an intimate family-run mill, Abito is offered in six sophisticated neutrals.
Inspired by a 1950s tie design found at a vintage store in Wicker Park, Chicago, Velvet Tie evolved into a spectacular cut-velvet pattern for HBF Textiles. The goal was to take a dynamic, complex graphic pattern to a more stylized modern interpretation that utilizes Old World weaving craftsmanship, the company explained. Velvet Tie is available in one colorway that reflects both warm and cool neutrals.
Belgian Meadow is a perennial textured classic that juxtaposes a deep warp shade against a novelty slub rayon fill yarn for a surface structure of distinction. Woven at a premier mill less than 20 miles from HBF Textiles in the rolling Appalachian Mountains, Belgian Meadow has doubled from nine rich colorways to 18, says HBF Textiles.
A playful material that utilizes a stitched dash that revolves into a larger scale motif for banquette or larger seating scenarios, Spun has an expanded color palette that exploits a dark complex ground weave with a lighter tinted hand-sewn surface quality. Designed by TVS, an award-winning architecture firm based in Atlanta, Spun was part of the Stitch collection that took the Gold Award for the Best of NeoCon upholstery category in 2008, the company says.
Lastly, reminiscent of a fine men’s blazer that tailors beautifully over the contours of contemporary and classic furniture, Heartfelt is a luxuriously woven fabric that is brushed and sheared numerous times to create a thick uniformity.
