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We recently saw an article discussing the influence Fashion has on home interiors and it struck a chord with us.  We have long seen related industries influencing and inspiring each other.  At Townsend, we often look to the Fashion Industry, and elsewhere, for color inspiration with our new collections.

We’ve also been witness to interior design trends traveling to the fashion world.  There has been a recent growing interest in the hand-crafted design feel, most notable in the popularity of Kuba and Ikat style prints.  

With their start in the textile industry, gaining popularity in high-end interiors, those styles have now become popular in high fashion.

We won’t be surprised to see a rise in the popularity of “texture-ized” patterns and embossed looks throughout fashion and interiors in the coming seasons.

We’re certainly seeing the design trend growing with luxury interiors.

Fashion isn’t the only place we see influence, inspiration, and idea sharing – but that’s another story we’ll leave for another day …

Enjoying the winter wonderland that is upstate New York, home of Townsend Leather, we found a sudden urge to create our own wintery “leather collection”.

Using our Sample Lightbox we made a little winter-esque color scheme inspired by this photo in under a minute.

Take a look at our scheme, let us know what you think, make your own, and share it with us!

https://townsendleather.com/lb/7rx2e

Find your own photo, or furniture piece, or your imagination, or whatever to build your own “leather collection”!

Just go to our Townsend Leather Sample Page search for colors, textures, finishes, or patterns that interest you and click the little “add to lightbox” icon  on any samples that strike you.  When you are done browsing you can print your selection to reference with your projects, you can order samples to use on your projects, or you can share your creation with your friends.

Show us the collections you come up with on our Facebook page

As anyone in any business probably knows, every person and every department is as important as the next in creating greatness.

We at Townsend Leather know and value the entire process of pre-production to post-production.

Our feature today ventures on into the post-production world.  A department that is highly critical to Townsend’s success and valued for its first hand knowledge and exploration of Townsend’s very high standards of quality… our QC Department.

Using a variety of specialized machinery the expert technicians really put our leather to the test, literally.  They test for a wide range of attributes including wear and flammability.

Special ovens, UV booths, flamebooths, and an assortment of contraptions regulate and document every leather order to the highest of specifications.

However, the QC Lab is not exclusively a post-production department.  We take all of the continuous findings and insights of the QC department very seriously and are continuously improving our product and processes based on those findings.

Thanks for joining us on this journey “Out on the floor”.

 

Townsend Leather is proud to be featured in a recent article by Aircraft Interiors International magazine.  Our own “bright forecaster” VP of Sales and Marketing, Sarah Eckler was interviewed about the current state and future outlook of aircraft interiors and the market as a whole.

See the article, Townsend Leather in Aircraft Interiors International Magazine

As a part of our unyielding efforts at continuous improvement, Townsend Leather values the importance of each of our partner’s personal health.

With that in mind, we just recently kicked off a popular event for the Townsend team, “Fresh Fruit Fridays!”  With as much fruit as we can carry, we spread it around the buildings for everyone to enjoy.  With almost 80 pounds of fresh cut fruit this past Friday, we were sure we would be “crowding out” the unhealthier snack choices for everyone.

There will be a lot more healthy initiatives for Townsend Leather come 2013!

As Townsend Leather happily glides into this Holiday Season, we always like to take a moment and look back on the year that was.

2012 was an exciting year for Townsend Leather; it was very fast-moving and produced a lot of special memories.  Our Townsend Leather family grew this year and as we take some time over the next couple of weeks to spend with our home families, we wanted to offer a little glimpse of what 2012 looked like for Townsend Leather.

Our year-in-review gallery of images, you will see a bit of the new products, new machines, new construction, new groups, new partners, new learning, and new experiences that we enjoyed throughout the year.

For a bit more information about our year, take a look at our most recent Bi-Monthly Bulletin and review the Holiday Luncheon we recently had.

Happy Holidays from all of us at Townsend Leather, and we look forward to everything that will come for each of us in 2013!

See you next year!

 

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Townsend is proud to be shown in the October Market tabloid Edition of Interior Design Magazine.

Our Medici Damask by The Roger Thomas Collection®™ for Townsend Leather  is shown in a large scale photo, seen here, Interior Design 10/2012

 

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