Fortuny: Glycine Papiro Tapa Peruviar

Escape in Uber Wealth every room of your palace upholstered in Fortuny fabrics....yards and yards of the stuff at $600.00 the tiny yard.

If you don't know who Fortuny is or what this is all about, I'd suggest visiting the website fortuny.com.




But in a few words, Mariano Fortuny was a Spanish painter and a fashion designer who lived and worked at the onset of the 20th century. A time when the world was aflamed with new ideas about art and design as it drew closer to civilizations that had been unaccessible to it, previously. Tribal art becomes the rage but also a desire to revisit the grandeurs of Europe's past. Things fell apart quickly with the destruction that was brought upon Europe by the First World War but for a time European artists shinned very brightly, in deed.

To realize his vision Fortuny set up shop in Venice where the level of artisanry could not be rivaled. There, he created the most astounding collection of printed cotton fabrics . They are both sumptuous and quite simple. They breathe like fresh water colors and often gleam with pure gold. Their method of production is a secret!