Liora Manne To Showcase Lifestyle Concept In New High Point Showroom

Furniture World Magazine

Liora Manné, one of America's most recognized home furnishings designers, has announced the opening of her first showroom in High Point, NC. Slated to debut at this fall's International Home Furnishings Market (October 14-20), the 1,000 square foot space is located at 121 Market Square and will showcase not only Ms. Manné's extraordinarily original and innovative line of Lamontage area rugs, lighting, furniture, ottomans, placemats, handmade platters and pillows but other facets of the Liora Manné lifestyle concept which includes fashion handbags, totes, clogs, shoes and accessories. “My vision is to create a total environment that is visually exciting and richly textured. It is a way of living artfully infusing all objects with warmth and color,” stated Ms. Manné. “When I opened my first store in SOHO (Manhattan) a year ago, it was my first opportunity to present this lifestyle concept. The High Point showroom will bring my Liora Manné lifestyle concept to a broader audience of buyers and interior designers.” “The High Point showroom gives the Liora Manné brand its own environment to show off its various products, color stories and its special fabrication,” agreed Charles Peck, president of Liora Manné. “A unique feature of the Liora Manné brand is that it transcends a designer with a vision, but is about a unique fabrication with unlimited possibilities.” Ms. Manné's newest license, AF lighting, will be featuring their premiere Liora Manné Collection in their showroom (H-333, IHFC Building) during the upcoming market. The Liora Manné Collection of area rugs for Trans-Ocean will be featured in the Trans-Ocean's 125 Market Square showroom, across from the designer. Ms. Manné has been designing rugs for Trans-Ocean since 1997. Other licenses include dinnerware for Dansk which will launch during the tabletop market in (October) and Shoes by the GFW Group. Integrating Art & Technology: Liora Manne will be the one to watch in the world of home design and fashion accessories. Manne has revolutionized textile manufacturing by inventing and receiving patents for two unique processes. Lamontage, designer Liora Manné's patented medium for creating textiles, combines the ancient art of felting with modern technology and materials. The name of this innovative method is derived from “lamina” for layering and “montage” for image. Montique, Liora Manne's newest patented medium for creating textiles, encases Lamontage fabric designs between two layers of plastic creating a gorgeous translucent, fresh design for spring and summer. The Lamontage product is specially created by blending and mixing custom dyed fibers, resulting in a rich palette of over six hundred hues, which are then manipulated to generate intricate color possibilities. Manné's New York City artisans blend, layer, cut and hand create each design using special hand-held needles. Once a design is complete, high-tech processing and needle-punching transform the material into fabric by further blending and compressing the colored fibers. The fabric is then saturated by natural latex, which gives the material great durability, making it a practical, cleanable product. These revolutionary processes, which expand the design boundaries of traditional textile creation, enables Manné to actualize the multitude of unique patterns and colors that are the Lamontage and Montique signatures. She is the only designer/manufacturer who can create any design into a textile for upholstery, wallcovering, and/or a rug. The showplace for these textiles is her first Liora Manne lifestyle concept store in the heart of New York's Soho. The collections include rugs, fabrics, limited edition furniture and lighting and home accessories as well as a line of fashion accessories, including totes, handbags and small leather goods. Manne is the first designer to effectively bridge interior and fashion design with distinctive textile creations. LIORA MANNE Biography: Manne, a native of Jerusalem, Israel, moved to Atlanta at age 16 with her family. After graduating from Georgia State University, she completed a Masters Program in Textile Design and Engineering at North Carolina State University. She then moved to New York and began designing fabrics for the apparel industry, eventually establishing her own thriving company. Despite her success, Manne craved to use her talent for textile designs in a unique manner. Inspired by the Israeli artist, Kalman Shemi, who merged the art of felting and textile technology, Manne developed a revolutionary process. Fibers are layered and then interlocked by hand needle-punching to create custom blended colors that define her painterly patterns. She named the innovative fiber technology method Lamontage: “lamina” for layering and “montage” for image. The Lamontage medium showcases Manne's extraordinary color sense and her distinct design aesthetics. Manne found that rugs, which she likes to design as “a piece of jewelry for a room”, are the perfect embodiment of her new technique. The pieces, which represent a fascinating marriage of the technical and the artistic, show an extraordinary range of color, texture and decorative patterning from Manne's signature mosaics to spontaneous expressions of colors in motion creating stripes, swirls and abstract artistic patterns. Manne recently expanded the Lamontage textiles creating a Liora Manne lighting collection and furniture collection as well as fashion and home accessories including placemats, pillows, frames and trays. In addition to Lamontage, she has invented and patented a new textile called Montique, which encases Lamontage fabric between two layers of plastic creating gorgeous, translucent and fresh designs used in her fashion and home accessories collections. She is also producing Liora Manne dinnerware for Dansk to launch in October 2004. Each of Manne's new collections reveals her strong design aesthetics and incredible color sense. The possibilities are endless for this visionary artist and designer. Liora Manne has a unique talent of transforming everyday objects into artful expressions that enhance daily life.