• Casual Living's tour through Glen Raven's Anderson, S.C., manufacturing plant, in pictures

  Nicole Crews, January 26, 2012
  ANDERSON, S.C. — Glen Raven Custom Fabrics' highly automated, vertically integrated, sustainability-geared, 1-million-sq.-ft. manufacturing center in Anderson, S.C., is not your grandfather's textile mill. Casual Living Publisher Norman Hamilton and Executive Editor Nicole Crews recently got the insider's tour.  More

• Laurie Bell, Inc. is woven into the fabric of the South

  Nicole Crews, January 9, 2012
  LAURIE JENKINS IS NOT YOUR STANDARD-ISSUE southern belle. Yes, she comes equipped with a drawl as long as a South Florida summer without air conditioning. Yet she's a tough-talking textile chemist and fabric designer who knows both the science behind outdoor fabrics and the fashion trends on the forefront. She carries a fan to match every outfit, but quips, "Honey, it's not pretentious, it's the vapors."  More

• Casual Living Conference to honor Supplier and Retailer of the Year

  Nicole Crews, January 5, 2012
  HIGH POINT, N.C. — The upcoming inaugural Casual Living Conference, to be held Feb. 22-24 at the Ritz Carlton in Sarasota, Fla., has announced the honorees of its first awards ceremony that pays tribute to those that take their company and the industry as a whole to a new level through creativity, innovation, and decisive and bold actions. Glen Raven Custom Fabrics, manufacturer of its Sunbrella brand of outdoor fabrics, will be honored as Supplier of the Year, and Leader's Casual Furniture, the Florida-based, 19-store retailer will be recognized as the Retailer of the Year.  More

• Ratana to debut at Atlanta winter market, show new Sunbrella line

  Casual Living Staff, January 3, 2012
  Ratana Home and Floral, a supplier of outdoor woven and indoor rattan furniture, will debut at the Atlanta International Gift and Home Furnishings Market, Jan. 11-18, in Building 2 WestWing, space 10-A-5.  More

• Exclusive Research: Casual Living's Fabric Survey 2012

  Stephanie Nickell, January 6, 2012
  Retailers and designers alike predict in 2012 that the gray color group will grow in popularity, according to Casual Living's exclusive 2012 Fabric Survey.  More

• Fabric supplier Phifer receives Greenguard certification

  Casual Living Staff, January 5, 2012
  Phifer's collection of Designed Fabrics has achieved certification by the Greenguard Environmental Institute (GEI) for superior indoor air quality performance. These outdoor fabrics have also been certified as meeting the more stringent Greenguard Children and Schools standards for commercial use.  More

• In Living Color

  Nicole Crews, January 6, 2012
  MANY EDITORS, LIKE ME, ORIGINATED AS CREATURES OF THE black and white page - writers and word nerds who liked to let the reader's imagination do the illustrating. That was all well and good for the pre-Information Age. But in today's digital world of multimedia information sources where online, print and video merge, attention span is truncated and competition clamors for face time - we've had to get creative. And when I say creative, I mean visual.  More

• Brentano releases 2012 Color Forecast

  Casual Living Staff, December 14, 2011
  Brentano has released its 2012 Color Forecast, which looks back on the successes and trends of 2011 and predicts what's in store for the interior design world in 2012.  More

• Sunbrella recognized by Interior Design magazine

  Casual Living Staff, December 9, 2011
  Glen Raven Custom Fabrics, makers of Sunbrella fabrics, was honored by the inclusion of its fabrics among three award winners at the Interior Design magazine Best of Year Awards on Dec. 1 at the IAC Building in New York City.  More

• ‘Tangerine Tango' is Pantone's 2012 color of the year

  Casual Living Staff, December 9, 2011
  Pantone LLC announced PANTONE 17-1463 Tangerine Tango, a "vivacious, enticing hue," is its color of the year for 2012.  More

• De Leo Textiles launching first outdoor fabric line

  Gary Evans (Furniture/Today), December 5, 2011
  HIGH POINT, N.C. — De Leo Textiles is launching its first outdoor high performance fabric at Showtime here this week, with the initial collection containing seven patterns featuring a solid fabric, stripes, plaids and botanicals.  More

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