Hey Grace, I noticed you mentioned the Jade Tree in the pictures. Do you think you’d ever do a guide to house plants and/or planters? My Boyfriend really wants a giant plant for our apartment, but I hesitate because I don’t know what would suite our aesthetic.

Cute! Love the bluebird. They are called blue birds of happiness and are made down the road from my house. You can buy them online here, http://terrastudios.com/bluebird.html

I think I need one of those pillows! And I also love that the chair has the word “Leisure” printed on it — a sweet touch.

links to the pillows are not working for the etsy shop etc

Interesting note about the chairs — they actually say “Leisure Laundry” and came from my great grandmother’s laundromat from many years ago!

I love these pillows! I’ll have to check out her site…as soon as the boss isn’t looking (:

I wish those photos were on flickr so I could favorite them!

Amy Butler also directly pulls designs from vintage fabrics (I bought a bunch of old fabric from a thrift store and about a year later, one of the same fabrics pops up in Amy Butler’s line but in a different colorway). I know that’s rather common and accepted in fabric design, but for her to then turn around and try to bully her customers into not using her fabric, which they were legally entitled to do… Well, I like her stuff, but not enough to support her hypocrisy.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the beautiful pillows in these sweet photos, but the Eames-lover in me feels compelled to point that those are absolutely NOT Eames chairs.

OK, that said, I adore that little bit of yellow scalloping that’s creeping around the edge on the first pillow. Very cute!

I am probably not saying anything new, but I love these pillows too.

thanks everyone! the Tom Duffey above is my main squeeze, which explains why I have his great grandmother’s chairs. just a side note. :)

Ha! I love that the word “leisure” is faintly embossed on that chair…and that they come from a family laundromat! I love fantastic furniture stories…(prob’ly why I still have the same gd yellow/brown/black/orange striped sofas from 1975…)

The pillow in the bottom photo is my favorite in composition and color.

Cute, i love those!

Oh, I adore those pillows, what a great way to mix the fabrics. I am a huge Amy Butler fan, and I love it when I see people use her great fabrics!

Great job on the pillows Amy Soczka

I love the colors and layout , this is great inspiration for a site that I am designing right now.

Hi Grace:
Amy Butler’s design team currently allows all use of her fabrics, including commercial uses, but that was not always the case. In the past, her lawyers have contacted individuals making items out of her fabric and selling those items telling them that they could not. That changed to them saying that they were limited in how many items they could sell using her fabrics in a year. And that itself finally changed to a complete acceptance of the fact that people make things out of fabric and sometimes they sell it. That acceptance is a complete change from her stance and her actions just a few years ago.

My statement of her hypocrisy comes from her attempt to protect her perceived artistic work while at the same time selling vintage fabric patterns under her name with only the colorway and possibly the scale changed. In other fields, it would be called copying or plagiarism, but I am under the impression that it is standard/not uncommon in fabric design.

I hope this clarifies what I mean. Amy Butler has not historically been a friend to indie designers/crafters, and as the saying goes “with friends like her, who needs enemies?”

Julia

Thanx your articles