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Our color choices generally reflect our mood and Maxwell Fabrics’ Fall 2016 Collection features calming and peaceful hues enlivened with shots of vivid color. This season’s color palettes were created to satisfy the desire for optimism, strength and tranquility inside the home. 

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This season our focus is on performance. We believe the home should be beautiful, but it must also be livable, easy to care for, and worry-free. 

We are proud to introduce a new color book series called Performance Wovens, an exclusive collection of Sunbrella performance fabrics Home & Garden - Act II, and a compilation of simply elegant silk-like textures Pure & Simple IV. 

For more inspiration view our full Summer 2016 Collection.

Summer 2016 Collection

Style at Home - April 2016

'Space Lift' is a story about the beauty-inspired apartment makeover of Vancouver-based makeup artist India Daykin. Featuring our drapery fabric, we are proud to be a part of this stylish space in a city close to our hearts. 

Special thanks to the Style at Home editors. Photography by Janis Nicolay. 

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We are proud to announce the launch of our new Summer 2015 collection! This season’s offerings combine luxury with livability as well as on-trend nature-inspired themes and colors.

I recently attended Heimtextil, the biggest international trade fair for home and contract textiles in the world. This is where I find inspiration for Maxwell Fabrics and Telafina and begin development on our new collections. It was one of the best shows I've attended.
 

Now that I'm settled back in my studio and reflecting on the show, I found I’ve really had a chance to understand the direction of upcoming trends and the influences for which these trends are based on.  Design ideas featured at Heimtex for 2014/15 are structured into two major categories - Progress and Revival. These two contracting themes come together and the concept becomes the key inspiration for lifestyle trends worldwide.

Progress is based on the idea that we must continuously innovate to improve quality and functionality. Technology is key as we look towards a sustainable future.

- Design direction - Flora and fauna prints.

- Most emphasized color - Green. In every tone from soft pastels to bright citron and continuation of rich emerald.

Revival is based on the idea that while technology takes us into the future we also must look back on past traditions and seek out purity and authenticity.

- Design direction - Natural materials that highlight if not emphasize nature's flaws in materials such as wood, stone, linen and metals.

-Most emphasized color - Metallics in tones of gold, copper and bronze.

These are a few key ideas influencing the design world now and into 2015 with exciting products planned in Maxwell's upcoming collections.

Maxwell Fabrics embraces Pantone Color of the Year 2014 with Mellow #24 Fuchsia, Grounded #270 Fuchsia, Barclay #736 Plumberry and Supernatural #19 Rosa.

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Lonny Magazine is known for its design, style and architecture. In October 2013 the magazine ran a story called "The Saucer Chair Makeover".

The story featured Lonny Magazine's Associate Editor Kaylei McGaw hand-me-down chair that was transformed into a renewed, modern lounge chair by Molly Andrews and her talented upholstery team at www.chairloom.com based out of Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

Chairloom chose Maxwell Fabrics' Warsaw Navy and Warmheart Caspian upholstery fabric to round the shape of the saucer chair and add dimenion and style. Both fabrics come from the popular West Wing book. 

West Wing offers solid textures of luxurious plush cotton looks, polished flannels and elegantly lustrous velvets. It's a top-selling Maxwell Fabrics collection with almost 100 skus for designers to chose from. The below image shows the chair before the makeover on the left and the final result on the right. 

Read the full article on the Lonny Magazine website here.

Maxwell Fabrics Fall 2013 Collection and top-selling fabrics will be featured at NYDC's What's New/What's Next on Thursday, September 19. This annual event highlights the best in the interior design industry forecasting new trends and products. It's a must-attend for New York and New Jersey based designers. Check out our Fall 2013 Collection at Flourishes Showroom Suite #414. For more informaiton please visit the NYDC website.

July’s top five selling fabrics in Canada from Maxwell Fabrics are (clockwise from top left):

• Tundra #18 Moonbeam (an exclusive pattern and recommended for upholstery)

• Taryn #9 Smoke (for chic drapery)

• Crystal #135 Cream (also an exclusive pattern to Maxwell Fabrics and recommended for drapery or multi-purpose)

• Sizzle #2 Walnut (multi-purpose use, drapery or upholstery and only available in Canada)

• Rhino #26 Pinecone (also an exclusive upholstery fabric and only available in Canada)

Maxwell Fabrics would like to thank our Canadian customers for their business!

Here at Maxwell Fabrics we often receive feedback from customers about pets and fabrics. For example, "My cat won't stop clawing at my new Maxwell Fabrics' sheers!"

Although we cannot control feline behaviour (and like to think that your cat has good taste) we can offer a few creative solutions from other customers.

For example, ART + Commerce Design in Vancouver needed a way to protect a Telafina mohair upholstered sofa from a little Scottish terrior. They used an outdoor fabric called Petit Puff #1915 Gravel and made a cover and two bolsters with an attractive, quilted and tailored look. It proved to be the perfect safeguard for the sofa. Best of all: the cover is washable! See the two images below.

Petit Puff comes in nine colours and is from the Home and Garden Sahara collection. To learn more about caring for your fabrics please read our Textile Reference Guide.

Maxwell Fabrics is experiencing a surge in upholstery fabric orders from designers looking to revive antique and vintage furniture. “Orders are way up from designers needing a very specific pattern for a vintage piece of furniture they found,” says Maxwell Fabrics Design Director Jennifer Apple, “Some designers are even asking for bright pinks or zigzag chevrons for a daring look.”

Chairloom located in Ardmore, Pennsylvania has a booming business restoring old furniture and calls on Maxwell Fabrics frequently to order solids - often choosing Gig Harbour or Mainstays- to revitalize their Danish modern furniture finds. Vancouver-based designer Margot Jagger ordered a denim pattern from the exclusive Maxwell Fabrics VIP collection  to bring new life into her client’s antique bench.

Reupholstering older furniture makes economic sense too. Purchasing an antique piece can be expensive but to find a run-down vintage chair in your grandmother’s basement and to have it upholstered in a funky new fabric is often cheaper. “With so many patterns and colors to choose from (over 18,000 at Maxwell Fabrics) the customer has the opportunity to make that it their own and completely unique,” adds Apple.

Images courtesy of Chairloom.

For more images please visit Maxwell Fabrics Pinterest Page dedicated to Vintage and Antique Furniture Upholstery.

Maxwell Fabrics is pleased to launch our Spring Collection 2013 - Color Explosion that includes the very popular book Stratosphere.

Featured above is our Sunburst #21 London Grey. There are over 16 styles, patterns, and colors to choose from in Stratosphere.

The Bates Motel is a much anticipated new TV series on A&E and filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada starring Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga. Maxwell Fabrics has been working with their set dec deptartment to help create the creepy background that will set the stage for this serial thriller, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic film, Psycho.

When the show airs on March 18, 2013 be sure to keep an eye out for the Victorian sofa and Mother's special chair in the Bates House made with Maxwell Fabrics pattern Turrel #1 Persian.

For more information about "The Bates Motel" TV series visit the A&E website.

Furniture Photos from GEP Productions Inc.