Thom Filicia creating new licensed furnishings line
Safavieh, Vanguard and Kravet among the sources
Jay McIntosh -- Furniture Today, March 31, 2009
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NEW YORK — Area rug source Safavieh, furniture manufacturer Vanguard and textile supplier Kravet will be among the licensees for a new home furnishings line by celebrity interior designer Thom Filicia, his company announced Tuesday.
Safavieh will introduce hand-woven, hand-tufted and machine-made rugs in the Thom Filicia Home Collection in its showroom in Market Square, suite 120, at the April High Point Market.
Case goods and upholstery from Vanguard will be introduced in the fall, while fabrics from Kravet will debut in the spring and fall. Other licensees include Visual Comfort for lighting and the Shaw Hospitality Group for hospitality carpet, both of which will roll out in the fall, and Amana for specialty refrigerators, coming out this summer.
Filicia is best known for his starring TV role on the Style Network's "Dress My Nest" and his earlier work on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."
According to a press release, the new home furnishings collection will take classic simplicity and inject it with a modern flair. It adds, "Refined details mix with raw edges, industrial plays against organic, and materials, textures and palettes are used in unexpected ways."
"The Thom Filicia Home Collection empowers people to confidently express themselves through fun, classic, comfortable and bold furnishings," said Filicia, who added that he has designed high-end furniture for his private clients for years. "One of the most important parts of developing this collection was to create pieces for the way people live and entertain now. The result is pure, evocative design that is both essential and highly practical."
Marc Szafran, president of Filicia's design company, also said it was important that companies selected as partners for the collection "had an environmentally sensitive approach to manufacturing and quality of materials wherever possible to ensure long-lasting sustainable products."
Filicia holding market workshop
07/14/2004
