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The eternally stylish Jacqueline Kennedy loved to use Scalamandré, an American luxury textile manufacturer. She featured it in her home and the Kennedy White House. The line was only available to the trade for years and a yard of fabric could set you back $100 — until now. In a collaboration with The Inside, they now offer accents, furniture and textiles featuring several of the most famous patterns at affordable prices. The new collection features classic and affordable home staples like beds, ottomans and occasional chairs in seven patterns. All images courtesy of The Inside . The team went through the nearly 100 year old Scalamandré archive to choose six of the luxury textile house’s most iconic fabrics. They included the famous Zebra print from  The Royal Tenenbaums , as well as one never-before-seen print, Leaping Cheetahs. The graphic Baldwin Bamboo lattice pattern is also perfect for today’s interiors. They also tweaked each of the seven prints to look fresh an...

  Buffalo check is a non-fussy way to add plaid decor to your living room. The unique lines of the Louna Armchair give it a contemporary look. Image courtesy of  Wayfair . We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page.  There are some decorating trends that never fade away. Instead, they reinvent themselves over and over. We love plaid decor, and it’s a perennial favorite with interior designers. Just like floral prints, plaid has many different patterns that can weather interior design trends every season. The historically traditional plaid patterns have been adapted by decor designers for decades. That brought us the iconic patterns and colors of the upholstered furniture of the 1970s. Today’s trendy plaids return to their roots as tartan and buffalo patterns. You won’t see as many plaid sofas or carpets as we did decades ago. Instead, the plaid trend is used primar...

In June 2016, the MacArthur Foundation launched a high-stakes contest for an incredibly large grant. The big bet competition, called 100&Change , promised $100 million to whatever group could come up with the boldest idea for tackling one of the world's most pressing challenges.  The winning project saw Sesame Workshop teaming up with the International Rescue Committee in order to create mass media and direct services for refugee children that addresses their unique educational and emotional needs. Picked from over 1,900 applications, other proposals sought to tackle issues such as neonatal health, river blindness, malnutrition, the millions of uninsured Americans, and much more.   Proposals submitted by architects include Architects for Society 's project for a rapidly deployable, dignified shelter for disaster relief; Gensler 's and Skid Row Housing Trust's work on using prefabrication to deliver effective, streamlined solutions to homelessness; and Miller...

Architects: Showcase your work and find the perfect materials for your next project through  Architizer .  M anufacturers: To connect with the world’s largest architecture firms,  sign u p now . This collection features architecture at the start of trails, bases of mountains and entrances to natural preserves. The buildings range from small shelters to facilities that can accommodate large mountaineering teams overnight. When selecting building-products and drawing details for projects in these extreme environments, the architects were required to prioritize resiliency, yet ensure their projects were still aesthetically striking. The building-products specified for the following projects — particularly those chosen for the exterior envelope — are often rugged and raw, but retain a certain sophistication nonetheless. As you consider which resilient raw materials may be a fit for your next design, take a walk into the wild with these case studies: Gateway to the M...