RAD Goods

Interior designer Chloe Redmond Warner had figured that at some point in her career, a textile company would approach her about a collaboration. “I was waiting around and then last summer, I decided to stop waiting,” she recalls. As she has done her whole life, she spent the summer with her family in Maine. While there, Warner — who applied to the architecture program at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design with a fine art portfolio and founded Oakland-based Redmond Aldrich Design in 2005 — painted the foliage that became the basis for her first fabric and wallpaper.

With a motif in mind, she took an online surface pattern class. But once summer turned to fall, her new endeavor stalled — until the Kips Bay Decorator Show House in West Palm Beach, Florida, came calling. “The room was a pure blank slate — a rectangular box with a high ceiling,” Warner says of the loggia. “My team and I were like, ‘What if we tented it?’” That tactic, however, would require a lot of fabric. So they asked themselves: “What if we tented it in our fabric?”

Peony Chintz, in the Lawn colorway, debuted in February — upholstered on the walls and tented on the ceiling to striking effect. The large-scale design is printed domestically on a cotton/linen fabric and a grasscloth wallpaper. “I love natural materials with texture,” Warner says. Two more patterns are in production: one that she describes as “a bundle of Maine flora and fauna” and the other a “geometric blueberry.”

The Show House also marked Warner’s foray into furniture — which, along with her fabrics and wallpapers, are part of RAD Goods and sold on her website. The Lucia game table, topped with a cranberry-hued felt, is composed of cherry and redwood burl. She has since followed up with a cabinet and anticipates ultimately offering a capsule collection with 10 pieces, made to order in San Francisco. “We were inspired by Swedish and British antiques, and wanted to make them using California materials,” she notes.

Warner plans to incorporate her patterns in residences in Piedmont and Glen Ellen. Given how busy the samples desk in her office has been, don’t be surprised if they appear in fellow designers’ projects soon, too. “I am a creator — and my hand, my eye and my brain just want to make stuff,” Warner says. “The challenge for me was making something that I felt was good enough to live in the pool of already excellent things that are available to me and other interior designers.”  

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