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How to Decorate

Ep. 81: fabric expert Scott Kravet

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Scott Kravet is referred to as the Indiana Jones of the Fabric World. As the Executive Creative Director of Kravet Fabrics, it is his job to travel the world and find the best textile to make the dreams of others come true. Today he joins the show to talk about his family business and passion for fabrics, what he puts in his own personal house, fabric care, and trends in the fabric world. What You’ll Hear on This Episode: Trials and Triumphs including roofs, roses, rugs, benches and baby proofing. How Scott and his team travel all over the world to source out the best textiles. The wide array of textiles Scott works within the material, design and time period. The different lines that are in the Kravet line, and how the designer collaborations came to be. The family story of their passion for fabrics and the vision for generations to come. Scott’s role of overseeing a team of 45 people at Kravet. How Scott feels about digital printing, the pros, and the cons, and how it has improved over the years. A glimpse into the process of knowing how the colors will react to get the effect you want. A better understanding of getting what you pay for in fabric. The artwork, textiles, fabrics, and colors Scott uses in his own personal home. The digital catalog system Scott works with to keep track of hundreds of designs in their projects. Where Kravet’s mills are all over the world. Important insider information about rub tests and a performance finish. What things we should look for in fabric, including the option of slipcovers. What styles and colors Scott sees trending in the fabric world, and which are fading out. The elements of scale, color, and motif when working with antique fabric.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs.

0:03.4

We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator.

0:06.9

So we'll be interviewing interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the design world,

0:11.1

sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and also answering your decorating questions.

0:15.5

I'm Caroline. I'm in the Ballard Design's blog, How to Decorate.

0:18.8

And I'm Terran, and I'm in product design at Ballard Designs blog, How to Decorate. And I'm Taryn, and I'm in product design at Ballard.

0:21.4

And I'm Karen, and I had a branding at Ballard.

0:23.8

We're your hosts.

0:24.5

Hello.

0:28.8

So today we have Scott Cravitt on a show, and we're excited for y'all to talk to him because

0:38.4

he has been called the Indiana Jones of the fabric world so he has lots of good stories for us

0:45.4

we feel like you'll really enjoy it but before we do that we're going to do some trials and triumphs

0:48.8

so okay do I need to go first go caroline okay right. So I have mentioned on the show before that I have a addiction to roses.

1:01.6

Yes.

1:02.2

You have mentioned that.

1:04.8

And y'all growing them in your yard.

1:07.7

You like growing them.

1:08.5

Yes, growing them in our yard.

1:09.6

We have, by last count, I think there were eight climbing roses that we planted in her

1:14.1

yard.

1:15.4

And they're all antique roses.

1:17.8

Well, so the first two that I planted that were like really my gateway drug to these antique roses,

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