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"Van Day Truex, design director of Tiffany &amp;amp; Co. in the early 1960s, often dashed over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art when he needed inspiration for a vase or a bowl. For Patrick Gallagher, an American interior designer who moved to Rome from Stonington, Connecticut, in 2009, more remote journeys provide the same spark.\n\nPinterestFacebookTaverna Grape, a design from the luxe new textile collection of Patrick Gallagher.\n\nHis 15-pattern debut line of luxurious wovens for upholstery and curtains, dubbed Patrick Gallagher Tessuti (Italian for textiles), is a world tour in fabric form. The airy scrolling vines and faintly shimmering leaves of Taverna Grape, a silk-linen blend, were adapted from an antique suzani the globe-trotter came across in Istanbul. Pleasants Paisley's scattering of plate-size botehs wrought in silk and polyester echoes a scarf picked up in Brussels. (\"It was too shiny in pure silk,\" Gallagher says, \"so I added 14 percent polyester to give it a thicker hand and a softer sheen.\")\n\nPinterestFacebookPleasants Paisley, a silk-blend pattern.\n\nFoliage on an Etruscan vase spotted at Florence's Museo Nazionale del Bargello has been translated into the cotton-linen Ashley Leaf. As for Amic Braid chenille's chainlike motifs, \"They are based on a belt I saw on a fisherman's costume in Athens,\" says Gallagher from his flat in Rome's brooding medieval Palazzo Taverna, which costarred in the 1996 Jane Campion\u2013directed film The Portrait of a Lady. (Gallagher does still spend a good amount of time in Stonington, where his firm, Patrick Gallagher Decoratives &amp;amp; Design, is based.)\n\nPinterestFacebookAmic Brad, available in 11 colorways.\n\nFar-flung travels have also influenced the collection's offbeat European-style colorways: smoky blues, tobacco-browns, mossy greens, warm russets, and other sumptuous shades. \"Crisp colors they're not,\" observes Gallagher, who produced 13 of the fabrics at mills in the U.S. and one each in Italy and China. \"I don't want to describe them as muddy, but there is a saturation to them that is hard to find in the American market.\"\n\nThe trade-only range launched last spring at London's Turnell &amp;amp; Gigon showroom and in December at New York City's John Rosselli &amp;amp; Associates, and already boldface admirers are enthralled. British decorator Clarissa Clifford, for instance, recently used Daniella Stripe to dress the late-18th-century Robert Adam gilt-wood chairs at her country place, Devon's famed Ugbrooke House.\n\nFor details on the fabrics, go to patrickgallaghertessuti.com."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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