Fabric for the Designed Interior

- Photos and illustrations throughout the text - Key terms highlighted and defined - Chapter summaries and additional resources - Index for quick review - Interviews with prominent interior designers and fabric manufacturers - Swatch kit with study fabric samples - Multi-featured DVD, including tours through a fabric mill and design showrooms - Instructor's Guide provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom. DVD Features - Part One includes an exclusive tour of the Scalamandre Textile mill, one of the last vertically integrated mills in the United States, formerly located in Long Island City, NY. - Interviews with actual employees of the mill demonstrate the fundamentals of manufacturing fabric and producing passimenterie, from the design studio to inspection. - Part Two shows students how to navigate through a New York City design center and showroom. - Topics include learning about the duties of showroom personel, how to establish an account, how to read product lables, and how to understand pricing.Frank Theodore Koe is the author of 'Fabric for the Designed Interior', published 2007 under ISBN 9781563674075 and ISBN 1563674076.