Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects [Hardcover]

Marypaul Yates (Author)

Book Description

Series: Norton Professional Books for Architects & Designers | Publication Date: April 2002

Fabrics provides designers with the information needed to make their fabric specifications easy, informed, and appropriate to the job at hand, considering aesthetics, performance, application, and green design.

This thorough handbook by a textile professional describes and illustrates fibers and yarns, fabric structures, fabric design, dye and printing processes, finishes and treatments, styles and applications of cloth for furniture, window-, wall-, and floor coverings. Also covered are testing and flaws; the fabric industry, and professional practice. 500 color illustrations

Editorial Reviews

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Essential for anyone interested in cloth, particularly those who work with it professionally. (Sydney Morning Herald )

A worthy addition to an interior designer’s or decorator’s library…will intrigue the reader who wants to learn about [the] field. (Julie Dillon - Houses: The Residential Architecture Magazine )

About the Author

Marypaul Yates, is principal of Yates Design Inc., which provides marketing, design, and color services to the interior furnishings field. She has pioneered innovative materials and environmentally intelligent business models, creating private label and signature fabric and furniture collections for extensive and diverse clients. She has taught at Parsons School of Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, and Hunter College. She authored Textiles: A Handbook for Designers and Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 039373062X
• ISBN-13: 978-0393730623
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,033 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

MaryPaul Yates is an accomplished designer and colorist, known both for pioneering innovative materials and for her business-savvy approach to product development and management. Her firm, Yates Design Inc., provides color, design, and marketing expertise to fabric mills, wholesalers and converters, and furniture manufacturers in the residential and commercial interior furnishings industries.

In addition to her design practice, Yates has taught at Parsons School of Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, and Hunter College and is a Member of the prestigious Color Association of the United States Interior Colors Forecasting Committee. Honors for her work include a Ford grant, Coty, Roscoe, IBD, and Best of Neocon awards, and citing in Who's Who in America.

She is the author of Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects, the seminal reference for interior designers, for which she was awarded an ASID Educational Alliance /Joel Polsky Award and Textiles: A Handbook for Designers.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good overview for textiles, August 12, 2005

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eliza (Dallas, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects (Hardcover)

If one is studying interior design or one wants to learn about textiles, this book is very informative. This was used as a textbook for a textiles class in an interior design program.
I recommend this book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BroadBased Knowledge, May 12, 2007

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This review is from: Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects (Hardcover)

Well-organized and informative general reference on textiles for home or commercial use. Also has a great references section. Pictures are helpful, but I'd also recommend having a "hands-on" source in order to get a better understanding of all of the terminology and descriptions.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you need to know about furnishing textiles . . ., September 19, 2009

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This review is from: Fabrics: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects (Hardcover)

As a new student in interior design, I've found Mary Paul Yates's treatment of the material very helpful. She starts out with aesthetics, knowing that if she jumped right into yarns and fibers we might be turned off or intimidated. The coverage of color, light and lighting, texture, pattern and market appropriateness are all crucial considerations for the professional. A short chapter on sustainable design follows; an apt attention to the "green" concerns that are becoming more and more important to responsible occupants of planet Earth. We then learn about the fibers that make up the yarns that make up the fabrics, and their many characteristics which an educated designer must definitely know. Lest one would think she is fully informed, there are eight more important chapters, starting with fabric structure (wovens, knits, embroideries, bondeds, casements and laces, etc.)and ending with professional practices (fabric selection, costs and budgets, order-writing and "guidelines and pitfalls"). With abundant, colorful photographs, educational illustrations and an excellent glossary, this book is both informative and easy to read, and it's hard to imagine any client asking a question the thorough reader couldn't answer.