I was on the Neils Bach website admiring product when I came across this image of product photography. Sport cabin furniture? A tasteful plaid pattern on this bedding. No? I like the green fitted sheet. The colors are all warm, complementary, and inviting. I also like that the bed is displayed disheveled–though I make my bed.
My mother quilts and I’ve been wanting to commission a piece for some time and that plaid inspired me. But how to execute plaid in a quilt-type duvet cover? It’s not obvious. I still haven’t figured it out. It is probably impractical. But I did think it possible that one could abstract a plaid/give the sentiment of a plaid. Behold:
I determined that the back could be another good side:
The red side was the original, however, the green is not wrong either. Both sides are handsome. And I think that two good sides are better than one. Sometimes I get a printed thing and I have no use for the printed material, however, the back is blank and usable. I call this phenomenon, OGS, One Good Side. But here we have two good sides. Unbelievable.
The duvet is linen. All of the pieces are stay stitched. All seams are stitched with kevlar thread. The opening to insert the duvet uses a 60″, brass, YKK zipper.
I really like this design. It is simple geometry. I like the cross, the rectangles, the saturated colors, that it is representative of something else.
I know what you’re thinking: Oliver, does your genius know no limits? Furniture, textile design. What’s next? I want more. I assure you, I am severely limited, but I am trying.
I changed the orientation of the duvet, because it’s supposed to go this way. Originally, I had considered cutting the duvet down and sizing the duvet cover commensurately, but that didn’t seem like the way to go. I have bad instincts. Glad I didn’t.
Oliver Liu 