Quadrille Fabric: Turandot - Terracotta on Beige 100% Cotton Sateen; Imported from Italy

Glazed Cotton Sateen has a high thread count and is durable, smooth, with a lustrous sheen typical of European toiles. It is ideal for bedding or curtains.

Please note that colors may not represent accurately in photo. Additional photo(s) provided to show scale, not colorway. Please contact us before purchase with any questions. ALL SALES ARE FINAL, and we do not send cuttings for approval.

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Turandot: No Small Entrances

I have sixty-one yards left.

That is not a remnant. That is an army.

Look closely before you decide I am merely pretty. There are flowers large enough to command their own furniture, figures wandering through the repeat as though they have somewhere important to be, curves answering curves, terracotta pushing against cream and yellow and green until the whole surface begins to move.

I was not designed for the person who says, “Perhaps just one pillow.”

One pillow would be an insult.

I am Turandot. Glazed cotton chintz, extravagant by temperament, theatrical by birthright. My name alone should have warned you. I do not understand the modern terror of pattern. I have no interest in being the quiet texture that “ties everything together.” Let something else do that.

Give me the curtains.

Give me the walls.

Give me the sofa nobody is supposed to sit on and then let everyone sit on it anyway.

Better yet, give me a bedroom with enough courage to wake up looking like itself.

There was a period when decorators understood that a room could have a plot. You entered and something had already happened. A chair was not waiting politely against a white wall; it was participating. Curtains did not disappear. They arrived. Pattern moved from window to upholstery to the skirt of a table and somehow the room became calmer, not louder, because conviction has its own order.

That is the trick people forget.

The opposite of restraint is not chaos.

Sometimes it is certainty.

At $86 a yard, I am being sold for considerably less drama than I contain. Sixty-one yards remain, enough for somebody to stop calculating how little of me they can get away with and begin wondering how far they could go.

I recommend farther.

If you have been waiting for permission, consider this the aria.

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