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Verona

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Place Textiles -- Interior Design, 3/27/2006 12:00:00 AM

When she was working as a color consultant for Crypton, textile designer Kristie Strasen guided photographer William Wegman's gray Weimaraners through design development. At F. Schumacher & Co., she raided the Taliesin archive to create a blockbuster array of Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired offerings. Now Strasen has gone solo as the founder of Place Textiles, which just brought out its first collection, Sense of Place. Some of the fabrics are smart, some snugly—from super-weight linen plain-weaves to retro tapestry tweeds, fine cotton failles, and a stunning faux fleece of pure Scottish wool. Other fabrics shimmer: Take velvety Verona, a cut-viscose squiggle embedded in a woven linen ground. The collection's coordinating colors are uniformly earthy and surprisingly livable. All 105 of them. 150 Varick Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10013; 212-255-7978; placetextiles.com.