The Companion Collection: Building Blocks for Design

When I designed my first collection, I built it around pattern — palmetto silhouettes, sweetgrass weaves, the marsh grass of the Lowcountry. What I learned in the seasons that followed is that pattern alone cannot furnish a room. A grasscloth wall needs an upholstered chair beside it. A printed Belgian linen drapery needs a sofa that lets it read as intentional. A pillow in a hand-illustrated pattern needs a companion pillow that knows how to sit quietly. The Companion Collection is my answer to that — a small, considered assortment of textured performance solids and velvets built to coordinate with the studio's original patterns and give a scheme its steady ground.

Every fabric in the Companion Collection is chosen for one job: to ground a pattern. Tonal contrast, scale balance, material cohesion — those are the working parts. What makes the collection companion rather than cast is restraint. These fabrics are woven for durability and daily use, but the design brief was to stay quiet. They are the scheme's steady voice, not its loudest one. The collection has fourteen performance fabrics across three material families: four Basketweaves, four Tweeds and six Velvets. Each one does something different for a scheme.

Meet the Fabrics

Basketweave

Basketweave is the workhorse of the collection: a classic woven structure with a soft, textured hand that reads calm at a distance and lively up close. It works well as a grounding solid in schemes built around coastal or geometric patterns, holding color without pulling focus. Four colorways cover the working range from a warm neutral through blues and one red. Rated at 51,000+ double rubs and A.C.T.-compliant, it holds up to daily use without losing its composure.

Beside a large-scale print, Basketweave gives the eye a steady surface to return to. Its structure reads as order rather than pattern, which is why it works so well on the pieces that anchor a room.

Tweed

Tweed carries a multi-fiber weave that reads more animated than Basketweave — color variation across the surface gives the fabric its texture and warmth. It works well in layered schemes where a woven solid can hold visual interest without competing with the pattern's scale. Four colorways move from a heathered neutral through blues to a warm sunset. Contract-grade, GREENGUARD Certified, and PFAS-free — suited to high-traffic upholstery.

Tweed is the one to reach for when a solid feels too flat. The flecks of color in the weave can pick up two or three tones from a nearby print, tying upholstery back to the pattern without repeating it.

Velvet

Velvet is the collection's finish note. A smooth pile catches light differently than a woven — it deepens color, softens edges, and adds a second material register to a scheme. It pairs easily with warm and earth-toned patterns, bringing a secondary color forward and grounding the palette. Six colorways run from a warm off-white through greens, blues, and warm reds. Rated at 105,000+ double rubs, GREENGUARD Gold Certified, and PFAS-free.

The Role of a Supporting Fabric

Not every textile in a room needs to carry pattern. A supporting fabric can repeat a color already present in a print, introduce another texture, or simply give the eye somewhere to rest. On upholstery, bench seats, cushions and accent pillows, it grounds a larger botanical or geometric repeat and helps the whole scheme connect to the patterned drapery, wallpaper or pillows around it.

A scheme built entirely of patterns is a scheme that cannot rest. What the Companion Collection does — quietly, one texture at a time — is give those patterns a place to land. It was designed to be the supporting cast that makes the lead read even better.

I think of the Companion Collection as the collection that makes the other collections work. It was designed not to be noticed on its own, but to make everything around it feel more considered. That is the quiet job of a companion — and the reason this collection exists.