Monthly Archives: September 2023
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The Fall Collections
This season, the CASTEL collections, including standout selections from Güell Lamadrid and Les Créations de la Maison, brings together tightly-edited textiles that reflect the CASTEL ethos: rich color palettes, neutral sheers in soft finishes, sustainability - and a nod to CASTEL’s European heritage.
Les Création’s collection is inspired by the natural landscape of Comporta in Portugal. Güell LaMadrid’s collection focuses on Japanese art and culture. Castel rounds out the season’s offerings with three new Luxury Performance fabrics named for our favorite Procençal villages.
Galé is an elegant, large scale print on 100% linen inspired by the natural and wild landscape of Comporta.
Comporta is a heavy twill stripe inspired by the casually chic Portuguese coast.
Aberta is a geometric chenille jacquard inspired by hand knit Hungarian blankets. Available in a single, distinctive color way.
Sagres is a double width, 100% linen herringbone stripe. Sagres is a vertical stripe, but can be railroaded. Perfect for bedding and window treatments.
Mara and Siana, inspired by the Serengeti, are double width, 100% linen patterned and striéd sheers.
Linden is a sustainable recycled cotton jacquard woven in a flowing design reminiscent of delicate linden tree leaves.
Baobab is a sturdy cotton and wool blend woven in a striking large pattern inspired by the landscape of Northern Africa.
Nere is a hardy irregular stripe woven in three colors coordinating to Baobab.
Komorebi is an elegant velvet geometric woven in a lattice pattern. Offered in 5 colors coordinating with the Kanji print.
Ukiyo is a fine 100% cotton geometric woven offered in six colors.
Azem is a chenille jacquard woven in a basket weave design. Azem is available in six rich and versatile colors.
Omeyas is a chevron pattern flat woven stripe. Omeyas is offered in six colors that pair beautifully with the Azem chenille.
Avignon, from our Luxury Performance Collection treated with FibreGuard, is a plush and soft velvet offered in 15 colors inspired by the Provencal countryside.
Aix, also from our Luxury Performance Collection treated with FibreGuard, is a smart herringbone design named for the Provencal City of a Thousand Fountains.
Arles, named for the Provençal village with colorful winding alleys, is a chenille from our Luxury Performance Collection treated with FibreGuard.
All of the new collections are available now at our New York Flagship showroom and our national showroom partners. All fabrics and samples are in stock and ready to ship.You may view the collections here. Voilà!
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Castel Famille: Été en France
With the end of summer upon us, we wanted to share some photos of our wonderful family holiday in France.
Our favorite place has always been in the south, near Cannes and Mougins, but the past couple of summers we have ventured to the west coast of France to Île de Ré. Île de Ré is a 30km long strip of bike-able paths, sandy beaches, and almost painfully charming villages. Here are a few pics from our vacances....
The winding, cobbled streets of Saint Martin de Ré, the main port village where we rented a lovely little townhouse.
Île de Ré's roads are lined with salt marshes, where sauniers use age-old techniques for raking and harvesting sea salt. There are stands all over the island selling bags of sat on the "honor system."
We are completely enamored with the details and colors of the painted shutters and doors that adorn the village homes.
If you love oysters, then you have found your paradise. Biking all day, you work up an appetite, and luckily you never have to go far before you find a cabana with plates of fresh oysters, and a cool glass of wine to fortify the journey home.
La Martinière is the local favorite for creatively flavored glace (ice cream) and gauffes (sweet waffles). Our son's favorite spot for an afternoon goûter.
Of course we made time for a little shopping, and the local markets are the best for scoring gifts unique to the islands. Our favorite marché is in Ars-en-Ré.
The best way to see Île de Ré is by bike. We literally parked our rental car on the day we arrived, and didn't revisit it until we left for the mainland a week later. There are 110km of cycle paths on the island and lots of shops where you can rent bikes by the day or weeks. Be sure to get a bike with a basket!
We headed to the south from Île de Ré which is our favorite place for beach time and long lunches with our feet in the sand. More on that another day!
As we gently ease into fall, we look forward to our Fall Collections and creating new fabrics inspired by all of the beautiful places we are lucky to visit. Voilá!