Chippy Irvine

“Written in celebration of the firm’s 100th birthday, the book begins with a history of Brunschwig & Fils’ French origins...Emphasis is placed on the many designs based on fragments of antique cloth and wallpaper.”
SOUTHERN ACCENTS

“This lavishly illustrated tome has a highly readable and informative text, tracing the history and tradition of the company...This is a good book for designers...who are interested in creating highly detailed, high-end interiors. Ideas and tips on upholstery, fabrics, trimmings, floor coverings and so on abound.”
THE GLOBE AND MAIL (Toronto)

“Albert Hadley pays tribute to fabric manufacturer, Brunschwig & Fils, with his foreword to the edition, BRUNSCHWIG & FILS STYLE (Bulfinch $45). The volume...elucidates the mystique of the successful textile company. Its 100 year history consumes the first half of the book, and its design aesthetic, as illustrated in a series of interiors, constitutes the rest of the volume. The history chronicles its fusion of designs based on French traditional style and American sensibilities. The authors have assembled some striking examples of interiors where the company’s fabrics and wallpapers were effectively used. We see an elegant dining room decorated by McMillen in a drapery-style wallpaper. In another home, in an Italian printed chinoiserie cotton exemplify Brunschwig’s innovative use of documentary-based designs. The many interiors featured illustrate the diversity of products but do not begin to cover the 17,000 designs Brunschwig has brought to the market. They do, however, speak to the company’s amazing capacity for innovative interpretations that has facilitated their entrenchment in American design memory.”
VERANDA MAGAZINE

“...This is not just another ‘pretty book,’ although there are visual delectables...a bravo to the authors for the excellence of their book.”
Patricia Kelly Gallen NORTHEAST

Now in its fourth printing, BRUNSCHWIG & FILS STYLE is a decorating dream book that showcases the work of America’s best-known interior decorators as it celebrates one hundred years of fabulous fabrics from Brunschwig & Fils, one of the world’s most renowned textile and furnishing houses.

Brunschwig & Fils is to fabrics what Rolls-Royce is to cars. From Billy Baldwin and Parish-Hadley to Mario Buatta, Mark Hampton, and Charlotte Moss, top interiors decorators have long relied Brunschwig’s 17,000 designs to add just the right note to their decorating schemes. This lavishly illustrated book brings to life the history and tradition of Brunschwig & Fils and shows how a veritable who’s who of great decorators have used Brunschwig fabrics and wall coverings to create some of their most memorable rooms.

The first part of the book offers a brief history of the firm and reveals the inspiration behind some of its most famous fabric collections, from ancient Japanese and Indian patterns to the furnishings and fabrics found in the Moscow State Historical Museum and the Chateau de Thoiry-en-Yvelines in France. The authors then take us on a tour of rooms decorated with Brunschwig fabrics and explain how Brunschwig developed its concept of “scheming” to help decorators balance colors, textures, prints, and trimmings to create a harmonious overall look.

Brimming with color photographs interspersed with watercolors by co-author Murray Douglas (a descendant of the Brunschwig family, and with a useful and comprehensive glossary, BRUNSCHWIG & FILS STYLE is the ultimate guide to decorating with fabric.

BRUNSCHWIG & FILS STYLE is published by Bulfinch Press, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company.