| “I thought this was a good opportunity to have a festive, ‘come on shake your body, baby, do the conga’ summer tablescape,†says Rebecca Gardner of Eggleston Cabaret, a line of decorative accessories — napkins, a tablecloth and a lampshade — she created with fabrics from Electra Eggleston, a textile company run by Andra Eggleston, daughter of the photographer William Eggleston. Gardner, an event and interior designer who has an online shop called Houses & Parties, has long been a fan of Eggleston’s fabrics, printed in Monroe, N.C., on Belgian linen and in Glarus, Switzerland, on Irish linen. She is especially fond of Miami Cabaret, which, based on the elder Eggleston’s drawings, is a jubilant combination of purple, orange and fuchsia (pictured above). “It reminds me of a trip I took with him to Miami when I was 12,†Eggleston says. Houses & Parties is offering the oversize Tablecloth-to-the-Floor in Miami Cabaret, as well as dinner napkins and a lampshade in an equally vibrant pattern called Kentucky Goldenrod — a field of orange and purple squiggles with dots of yellow — which, when set together, create what Gardner calls “a wonderful cacophony for summer.†From $98, housesandparties.com. |
