Just In: New Mod Green Pod Pattern

Mod Green Pod just released a brand new wallpaper pattern called Delight in three yummy colorways:

Butter/Coffee; Water/Peppercorn; Caramel/Licorice.

As always, the paper is vinyl-free and hand-printed using non-toxic inks.

($75/5 yd roll with 27″ width.)

Site Spotlight: The Inside Source

Last week, eBay launched a new lifestyle site, The Inside Source. It’s genius really. A blog-style  format with interviews on the latest pop culture, art, fashion, beauty, décor, “green” chic, and hi-tech gadgets, all concluding with links to similar finds currently available for sale on eBay. My friend, and Store Adore co-founder, Meredith Barnett is the editor, so it’s a sure thing. I’ll be contributing two articles each week, so I hope you’ll check it out. Here’s a run-down of my contribution – what’s live now, and a preview of what’s to come:

 

Interview with Boston  chef Barbara Lynch on her new cookbook Stir.

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Boston interior designer Kristine Mullaney creates a glam boudoir.

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London-based antiques expert Judith Miller enthuses on her favorite chairs.

stack-laminated plywood chair by Julia Krantz

 

STAY TUNED FOR:

An interview with Jonathan Adler.

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Mod Green Pod designer Nancy Mims finds vintage pieces to reupholster.

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Kelly Wearstler, Gossip Girl (maybe), and others . . .

See you at The Inside Source!

Swatching: Mod Green Pod

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Here’s another textile profile from “Designing Women” that I wrote for Stuff Magazine. You’re no doubt familiar with this company – Mod Green Pod – especially the signature butterfly print, which was their very first design. Here’s their story.

When textile designer Nancy Mims mentioned to her sister-in-law, Boston-based Lisa Mims, that she was thinking of creating an organic cotton fabric line, Lisa, who had just quit a consulting job, hopped on a plane to brainstorm with Nancy at her home in Austin, Texas. Mod Green Pod was born at a picnic table in Nancy’s backyard. Their first collection was launched a year later, in spring 2006, with the funky and flirty signature print “Butterfly Jubilee.” Today, the company produces eight patterns, including Clara and Atticus, named after Nancy’s children. (There used to be an Adelaide print too, named after Lisa’s daughter, but that pattern was retired.)

This month Mod Green Pod launched a line of organic cotton solids in colors that coordinate with the prints.

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Nancy, who is the company’s creative director (Lisa serves as a sometime consultant from her home in Beacon Hill), recently came up for air after three frenzied weeks spent churning out 35 new designs, only three of which will make it into the next collection. The designs are all printed with non-toxic pigments on 100% certified-organic cotton grown in the United States. A recent visit to textile mills has motivated Nancy to continue to produce domestically. “My dream is to help our old mills go green and revive production in the US. We could bring back jobs and clean up the textile industry at the same time,” she says. As for other visions, Nancy would like to see the fabrics used in Malia and Sasha Obama’s rooms in the White House. She reasons, “Sasha is my daughter’s age, and I think she’d love the hot pink colorway with the butterflies. It’s US-made and organic, and since she has allergies, she needs clean, green décor.”

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I recently purchased a few yards each of these fabrics to make pillows and cushions for my sofas and benches in Cape Cod.

mineAspire in Peppercorn / Atticus in Sprout / Glimmer in Water


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Get the Look: Green, The Color

A few if these items are “green.” The rest are simply green, in the old fashioned sense, like, you know, the color. I adore them all.

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Shopping Guide

Sparrow Hooks, $32/two at WellDressedHome. (25% off with Store Adore code.)

Dahlia Chair, $100 at Target.

Normann Copenhagen Collect Bookshelf, $3,500 at Velocity Art & Design.

in2green Greige Ikat Recycled Cotton Throw, $125 at Green With Glamour.

Kartio Carafe by Kaj Franck, $60 at Abodeon.

Gothic Garden Settee, $1,950 at Scott Estepp Gallery, 1st Dibs.

Ojai Dinnerware Set, $253 at Jonathan Adler.

Chartreuse Scallop Mirror, $59 from uncommon at Etsy.

Weed Stool by Jane Gray for Stray Dog Designs, $285 at Green With Glamour.

Inhabit Builtby Lamp Chump Change, $172 at Design Public.

Vintage Gym Lockers, $850 from Area 51at Bond & Bowery.

Carnival Slipper Chair, $325 at Urban Outfitters.

Bubu 1er Stool by Philippe Starck, $110 at Zwello.

Daisy in Sea of Green Wallpaper, $62/roll at Bradbury & Bradbury.

Atticus Organic Cotton Fabric, $39.75/yard at Mod Green Pod.

Get the Look: 25 Pink Wallpapers

A sampling of 25 pink wallpaper patterns, from butterflies and bees, to books and flowers, to psychedelic prints and classic damasks.

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Shopping Guide

ROW 1: Osborne & Little Bedlam – Mod Green Pod Butterfly Jubilee  – Lorca Gattopardo

ROW 2: Cole & Son Fornasetti ExLibris – Flavor Paper Luxury – Harlequin Twinkle Toes

ROW 3: Flavor Paper Kabloom –  Kelly Wearstler Imperial TrellisCole & Son Cow Parsley

ROW 4: Flavor Paper Cycloid – Osborne & Little Rosabella –  Timorous Beasties Napoleon Bee

ROW 5: Jessica Lynn Designs Deer Bird Damask – Jessica Swift Ingrid  – Dropper Embossed

ROW 6: Linda Barker Tempting – Designers Guild Primrose Hill Peony – Geometric Squares Velvet Flocked

ROW 7: Designers Guild Sevilla – Designers Guild Tokyo Dahlia – Designers Guild Corazon – Pink Peony Mini Mural 

ROW 8: Graham & Brown Elizabeth Flock Effect – Linda Barker TranquilGraham & Brown Midsummer