New and Noted: Zak + Fox's Maritime Textile Collection
Photography by Stephen Kent Johnson,
courtesy of Zak + Fox
New from Zak Profera of NYC artisanal textile house Zak + Fox: Sea Change, a 19-piece, nautically themed collection that was four years in the making. Zak describes his new fabric and wallpaper as “a Gothic retelling of old maritime tales and folk traditions.” Take a look:
Zak did research in the archives at The Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut; shown is Cintamani, a wool velvet, on Jamb of London’s Hanbury Sofa.
Cassiopea is a 100-percent linen patterned with waves and cassiopea, “a jellyfish that spends most of its life floating upside down near the ocean floor,” writes Zak.
Mariner, a patchwork-patterned linen.
Alga wallpaper is “a nostalgic vision, of simple fronds and seaweeds fluttering in the shallow waters of tide pools.”
Zak and his Shiba Inu sidekick (and company namesake), Fox.