An Interior Designer’s Ideal Pattern

Decorating / August 9, 2016

An Interior Designer’s Ideal Pattern

“My favorite part of my work is considering pattern and color and combining different and contrasting elements together cohesively.”

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“When I need inspiration, I activate my creativity by going to art museums, visiting fabric showrooms, taking photos of different patterns in my surroundings.”

“The biggest challenge as an artisan is to create with an eye for cost so that what I make is still accessible and not prohibitively expensive. And doing that while keeping production in the US is the other side of that challenge, but is very important to me.”

“The best advice I’ve ever received is to: not try to be good at everything — use my talents to their maximum advantage but bring in others to my team who have the talents that I am missing.”

“If I could learn a different craft/skill, it would be to learn how to do hand block printing.”

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Written by Kat McEachern

Images courtesy of Workroom C

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Necessity is the mother of invention, the saying goes. So it was for Workroom C. “It came about one day when I was on the hunt for the perfect navy pattern and could not find it,” explains founder Carolyn Rebuffel. Carolyn’s career had taken her from antiques to interior design, which she continues to practice as principal designer at her eponymous firm, Carolyn Rebuffel Designs. That search for the perfect navy pattern inspired her to experiment with designs and colors, ultimately resulting in her own collection that is built around patterns that can be printed on demand, with repeats perfect for making a 20” square pillow out of a single yard. See some of Workroom C’s fabrics in use in the slideshow AND read more about Carolyn’s inspiration.