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MIXING & MATCHING
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Since starting New York design firm Tilton Fenwick in 2010, Anne and Suysel have become pattern junkies. “We rarely use just one fabric on any item. We love mixing it up with different fabric for the trim, fringe, or border. It’s our signature detail,” Suysel says. Their passion for pattern took this seemingly hopeless $1 Craigslist chaise longue and turned it into a statement piece. The design duo give us their secrets to combining patterns so you can give your thrift shop misfits and forgotten-about attic finds a new life.
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TIE IT IN
The same floral fabric from the chaise dresses up the inside of a bookcase and trims the lampshade.
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PATTERN BY NUMBERS Three fabrics from Tilton Fenwick’s Duralee collection and a creamy neutral paint joined forces in the overhaul. 1. Rocat: “We pieced together the main print so that it essentially acts as two separate fabrics,” Anne says. “The floral is on the cushion and the inside of the back. Then we cut a strip from the overall pattern and used that for the border design on the thickness of the cushion.” 2. Lenox: The tiny allover floral print was used for the welt and tufted buttons. 3. Quintessence: The woven striped fabric is used on a bias around the back of the piece. Paint: A fresh coat of Whispering Spring (Benjamin Moore) refreshes the legs. BLUE & GREEN SCHEME “If you mix a variety of smalland big-scale patterns while keeping within the same color palette, the look reads cohesive,” Anne says. Here, a blue and green palette melds the three fabrics without overwhelming. Q
