The year passed unnoticed, and again here, at the Erba villa, the exhibition of interior fabrics Proposte, manufacturers, buyers, buyers, decorators and customers, journalists of leading publications — all admirers of high textiles, an elite exhibition — gathered from around the world. It was noticeable that the main trends of the last year remain in the present, but the overall modality has become somewhat different: everything is somehow calmer, cooler, simpler. No, lovers of the riot of colors, no doubt, will find it, and it will be a riot of exquisite, just (for example) from the Lyon manufactory. Speech about the general direction. Likewise, crazy experiments with the form. They could be observed last year, and now they are gradually giving way to more comprehensible geometric patterns, all kinds of woven fabrics, ribbed fabrics, speckled fabrics, single-colored fabrics.

The public will now prefer to any surrealism a high-quality 3D-effect, which is what convinced the stand of the RUBELLI company with prehistoric shells on cloth panels that looked “like living”. At other stands, interest was caused by flowers, waves, layers of “geology” —in general, all interior fabrics, where the theme of nature was anyway read. For some reason, we always lack it, even if we live outside the city.

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