This summer, turn your home into an oasis of serenity with soft furnishings in cool cottons in floral prints and light colours.
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The spring-summer 2010 collection includes a line called ‘India Modern’, combining old paisley motifs with bright modern colours. ‘Workshop’ has geometric lines and shapes in a cool, contemporary palette; ‘Koutoubia’ has 3D flower prints; ‘Copper Chic’ adds a touch of bling; and ‘Poetry’ has flowers and trellises in neutral colours.
Price: Cushions Rs 600 onwards; quilts Rs 6,000 onwards
Where: Delhi — Greater Kailash I (011-32438224/25) and Khan Market (011-32668554); Mumbai — Colaba (022-32489601/02); Ahmedabad — Options, in Bodakdev (079-26841922)
Soma
The Jaipur-based home furnishings store has a ‘Razia’ collection of light cotton summer quilts (for AC rooms), bedspreads, cushion covers, curtains, valences, tablecloths, napkins, etc., in duck-egg blue, aqua and white. The ‘Cotton Flower Petals’ collection has bedspreads in blue and mauve. ‘Romania’ has floral prints in pale shades, inspired by the ceramics of the Austro-Hungarian Hohenzollern monarchy.
Price: Bedspreads Rs 1,048, cushion cover sets Rs 328-422, quilt bedspreads Rs 2,250, curtains from Rs 659, table-runners Rs 195, pillow cover sets Rs 369
Where: Delhi — Connaught Place (011-23416003) and Lodi Road (011-24627046)
Fabindia
A summer linen line for bed, table and bath, including curtains and upholstery. Curtains in natural fibres in hand-blocked prints and weaves. Bedspreads, quilts, pillowcases, cushion covers, tablecovers, napkins, runners and placemats are decorated with block prints and applique work.
Price: Applique bedcovers, Rs 3,315, and cushion covers, Rs 165. Tablecovers, Rs 1,340. Tablemats, Rs 345 for sic. Napkins, Rs 530 for six. Block-printed tablecover, Rs 490. Printed cotton curtains, Rs 590. Maheshwari silk curtains, Rs 950. Chanderi bedcover, Rs 3,760. Cushion covers, Rs 260.
Where: www.fabindia.com
Maaisha
‘Anatolia Summer’ bedspreads in premium Thai cotton, in earthy hues and soft pastels with Mughal and Persian floral motifs. The fabric is formaldehyde-free, anti-bacterial.
Price: King-size duvet cover, Rs 11,795; king-size flat sheet and pillowcase, Rs 7,095 and Rs 1,795 respectively. Standard flat sheet and pillowcase, Rs 6,195 and Rs 1,595.
Where: Delhi — Shoppers Stop, Select CityWalk (011-27353566/3747). Also across India at Jagdish Stores, Bharat Furnishings, Muslin, Debenhams and Homestop, and online at www.maishaa.com
