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DESIGNLINE
designline, Spring 2006
— AD's Editors Present Designers' Sources
Weitzner is an entirely fresh take on furnishings for the wall, from the studio of Lori Weitzner, distributed through Bergamo Fabrics. Featured here is the Soliloquy wallcovering and Rosettes fabric.
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
Architectural Digest , April 2006, page 78
— AD's Editors Present Designers' Sources
Weitzner shows her first line of wallcoverings, which she calls ”furnishing for the walls,” through Bergamo Fabrics. Lineage (far left, top and center) is a print of willowy branches with delicate yarn in the wrap. Soliloquy (far left, bottom) is a hand-blocked print. Sonata (left) is a handmade paper that recalls Japanese watercolors.
ESTATES WEST
Estates West, Winter 2006, page 36 & 38
—by Jessica Daynor
Weitzner's pick: From her Fall Collection of wallcoverings, Weitzner chose "Deluge", a silken-cotten Moray fabric pre-paper-backed for the wall. "What I love about is that it can go traditional or very modern."
BOUTIQUE DESIGN
Boutique Design, Autumn 2005, The Service Issue, page 35
—by Michelle E. Finkelshteyn
How did you get started in the interiors industry?
I was a Fine Arts major in college and my professor suggested that if I want to actually make a living I should become a textile designer.
Of all your accomplishments, what are you most proud of?
It seems a boring answer, but my children. After that probably my business as a whole. In that I created a company where I could design what I want for whom I want and have wonderful people work for me and in an office that is really peaceful.
SOUTHERN ACCENTS
Southern Accents, November/December 2005, page 142
—Old Dominion Showhouse
”You should splurge on wallpaper in a powder room because it's a wonderful surprise for guests when they enter.”
INTERIOR DESIGN
Interior Design, NeoCon, June 2005
Lush surface melds with an appreciation for the tactile in the line of wall coverings designed by Lori Weitzner. Madison’s quilted faux suede suggests a private library and is available in five colors. The raised relief of Serena’s flowering branches speaks of a cheery dressing room and also comes in five colors. Syncopation features soft horizontal pleats and is available in three colors. And Medea has a linen-silk blend appearance and comes in four colorways.
CALIFORNIA HOMES
California Homes, January/February 2005, page 136, 137, 138
— by Billene Spellins for K2 Design Communication
As a child, the renowned textile designer Lori Weitzner spent many hours with her father at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where her fascination with the timeless masterpieces went beyond simple appreciation. She experienced a connection that she would later identify as synesthesia, the psychological term for evoking from color other sensory perceptions, such as certain tastes and smells, as though observing a living thing.
In 1983, after graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Lori began working for Fieldcrest, where she co-produced a domestic collection for Alexander Julian. Just one year later, this free spirit moved to Italy and began selling her own designs for bedding, upholstery, draperies and wall coverings to eminent textile manufacturers throughout Europe. With her European success came broader recognition in America and many coveted and diverse commissions, such as packaging for Estee Lauder and Calvin Klein, tableware and silk scarves for New York's Museum of Modern Art, and mural displays for Donna Karan's windows at Saks Fifth Avenue.
Now principal and creative director of her own New York based design firm, Lori Weitzner's client list is comprised of luminaries from a broad range of disciplines, including Jack Lenor Larsen, Sacho Hesslein, Pallas Textiles, and Endless Knot Rug company, and her compelling designs adorn everything from Marcel Schurman stationary to Dansk International linens to interior furnishing for Lutfhansa Airlines. As an established international designer, she frequently lectures on the benefits of holistic design, and her fresh and emotive approach has been included in several notable design books. In addition to numerous exhibitions and awards, including a nomination for the prestigious Chrysler Award for Innovation, Lori's textiles are part of the permanent collections of several international museums. Currently, she is working on a line of exquisite and innovative wall coverings, which, for the first time, she will design, produce and distribute under her own label.
Bergamo Fabrics also distributes her wall coverings; rugs are sold through Endless Knot Rug Company nationwide and at the Endless Knot Showroom in the San Francisco Design Center, Showplace Suite 409.
ELLE DECOR
Elle Decor, December 2004, page 54 — by Aric Chen
LORI WEITZNER—A textile designer turns to the wall, and the results are richly textured and surprisingly sensuous.
With agile hand and a fertile imagination, Lori Weitzner has conjured tableware, bedding, rugs, and textiles — especially textiles — for other companies. But now the New York designer's latest effort has hit the wall, literally. Weitzner is debuting her own array of wall coverings, bringing that same ingenuity and tactile richness to vertical surfaces. Weitzner’s designs, available to the trade from Bergamo, include grass-cloth textiles, subtle florals, faux leathers, and sparkling patterns. If the line is unusually varied, there's a good reason.“When I work on collections for other firms, they tend to follow a specific theme,” acknowledges Weitzner, whose big break came more than a decade ago when she began creating textiles for Jack Lenor Larsen. “But for my own company's launch, I wanted to introduce a broader range of styles.”
The Manor and Madison wall coverings, of faux leather and faux suede, respectively, have such a luxurious feel that one would never guess how flexible and easy to apply they are. Melted glass beads lend Frost a diamond-dust shimmer. Oceana is mottled like sea foam. Serena is a delicate handblocked print of flowering sprigs in gold or platinum. Other designs resemble pleated silk, latticed threads, and silk douppioni. Throughout, the palette is saturated but restrained. “I wanted to draw from my textile background,” she says, “and create wall coverings that make spaces at once stylish and comfortable.” Mission accomplished.
PRESS ARCHIVE
The World of Lori Weitzner
Lori Weitzner at Sahco Louvre Event
The Jottings Collection by Pallas Textiles Received Environmental Awards at NeoCon
Press archive from 2003 - 2004
Press archive from 2001 - 2002
