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‘Best of Market’ New Product Award
Goes to Suri Fur Bedspread
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MWWW.FIBRE2FASHION.COM, SEPT. 2012
TEXTILE
Industry News
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our companies participating in Home
Textiles Market Week in New York
City were presented with “Best New
Product Awards,” with Alicia Adams
Alpaca, Inc. receiving the “Best of Market”
award for its Suri fur bedspread. All of
the winners and finalists were exhibitors
in At Home featuring Home Textiles at
the New York International Gift Fair
(NYIGF), in late August, 2012, at New
York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention
Center.
Four additional “Best New Product
Awards” were presented in individual
categories: Bed, Bath, Dining and
Home Accessories. A panel of trade
and consumer editors selected winners
and finalists based on criteria including
innovation in design, creative use of
materials/construction and new fiber,
material or technology.
The summer 2012 winners and finalists,
selected from nearly 100 products, are:
Best Of Market:
Alicia Adams Alpaca Inc.™ (Stanfordville,
NY) for its Suri fur bedspread, made from
Suri fur and baby alpaca herringbone
fabric.
Bed:
Winner:
SFERRA (Edison, NJ) for its
Dario duvet covers and shams, featuring
twill herringbone stripes and slim geomet-
ric bands woven into a stunning pattern.
Finalist:
Peakcock Alley Inc. (Dallas, TX)
for Biagio duvet cover and shams.
Finalist:
Dallas A. Saunders (Geyserville,
CA) for its Thea Schrack – Dogwood
Pillow Triptych.
Bath:
Winner:
Alicia Adams Alpaca Inc.™
(Stanfordville, NY) for its herringbone
unisex bathrobe, made of 100 percent
ultra-soft, hypoallergenic baby alpaca.
Finalist:
Busatti since 1842 (Tuscany,
Italy) for linen Giglio towels.
Finalist:
Scents and Feel (Miami, FL) for
its Fouta towel and Lurex handtowel.
Dining:
Winner:
Black Pepper Dessin (New Delhi,
India) for its Noir Flora table runner and
placemat, featuring gold brocaded flowers
on a backdrop of floral hand-embroidered
bouquets, made of 100 percent linen.
Finalist:
MATOUK (New York, NY) for its
Lulu DK for MATOUK table linens.
Finalist:
ecoaccents™ (Raleigh, NC) for
its eco-Mats.
Home Accessories:
Winner:
HEDGEHOUSE (Beverly Hills,
CA) for The Throw Bed, a portable and
versatile twin-sized down and fiber-filled
cushion weighing only four pounds, fea-
turing a removable and washable linen
or cotton cover.
Finalist:
Simple Syrup Design House
(Nashville, TN) for Honey Child
decorative pillows.
Finalist:
Blissliving Home (Rockville, MD)
for its Chateau throw and pillow.
“With so many superlative products
to consider, our judges were truly chal-
lenged to narrow the field,” said Danielle
Giacopenello, At Home featuring Home
Textiles sales manager. “In the end, these
products were chosen as most representa-
tive of visionary design direction and in-
novation in home textiles.”
The panel of judges included: David
Gill, HFN; Jenny Heinzen-York, Home
Accents Today; Wanda Jankowski, LDB
Interior Textiles; Tori Jones, Veranda;
Karl Lohnes, CTV/Metro Media; Jenni-
fer Marks, Home Textiles Today; Susan
Tucker, Giftware News; and Laura van
Zeyl, Home Fashion Forecast.
New York Home Textiles Market Week
offers buyers access to nearly 600 bet-
ter bed, bath, linen and home products
vendors at the New York International
Gift Fair (located at the Jacob K. Javits
Convention Center and Passenger Ship
Terminal Piers 92 and 94), 230 Fifth
Avenue, and 7 West 34th Street. Products
represented at each of these venues in-
clude bed and bath fashions, table linens,
kitchen textiles, towels, decorative acces-
sories, area rugs, window treatments and
decorative fabrics.
The winter 2013 edition of Home Tex-
tiles Market Week took place Friday, Janu-
ary 25, through Wednesday, January 30,
2013, in New York City. At Home featuring
Home Textiles ran January 27-30, 2013, at
the Javits Center, as part of the New York
International Gift Fair.
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