The color purple ruled last fall and it’s still raining plums, eggplants and violets in the interior world. From chairs to carpets, pillows and bedding, the deep wine country shade is being harvested in cool pads everywhere.

Here are some ripe picks from the groovy grape file:

Fruitful Folds: Designer Dror Benshetrit should take pride in his Peacock chair exhibited at the recent ICFF 2009 in New York. Designed for Cappellini, no weaving, sewing or upholstery glue was applied to the comfortable lounge seat with a price tag too high …

Tags: bedding , chairs , cotton , decor , duvets , Fall color , felt , furniture , grape , organic , pillows , Purple , rugs , upcycle , wallpaper , wool

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When I gather with friends over a bottle of wine it usually involves a book discussion or recruiting more parents for the school book fair. Erin Yasgar and Teresa Grow created Madison and Grow, a green wallpaper company over a bottle of grape. I want to drink with women like that. Why can’t I find friends like that? Probably because I don’t live in New York. Darn it!

Not only do these hip wall cover girls have inspiring ideas for patterns (Laura Ashley meets Lily Pulitzer and David …

Tags: decor , Madison and Grow , recycled , textiles , wallpaper

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