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WHEN THE URGE TO STAY IN BED ALL WEEKEND BECKONS, might prints for details, but they may never overshadow the look. In
we suggest linens from Patrizia D. If there is a more superb the winter I use a soft palette, in summer I like to bring freshness.˝
reason to avoid the incessant demands of children and Unveiling only two collections a year, the Patrizia D. line is
bosses, we would be delighted to know. Patricia Duyck is the inherently about details. Every piece handcrafted, mostly as
visionary for the collection, arousing dulcet notes from fibers custom works, in the small, traditional ateliers of Belgium and
and textures, and decanting just enough cosmopolitan verve France, where even the stitches and finishing are passionate
to seduce each piece with lush, atmospheric hypnosis. Where subjects. One imagines something as simple as a button
fine bedding can wander precociously into indulgent thread adorning a crisp nightdress being tenderly considered. For
counts and statement monogramming, these offerings veer her throws and home accessories, the finest, painstakingly
quietly into a realm of refinement, ˝sober luxury and discreet produced cashmere from Mongolia is used, just as the best satin
elegance, yet adapted to our time,˝ describes the designer. cotton, dyed in Italy and tended to carefully to give the material
Her influences—Tuscany, Rome, Andalusia—are embedded its shine, eventually finds itself spread in waves on the bed. At
lightly in the linens, like a swell of emotions and memories to the beach houses, city dwellings and mountaintop chalets of
return to. Her inspirations, though in tempo with fashion and herclients, thecollectionexquisitely distillspurity and ease—an
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art, reveal neither fetishist nor trend seeker, rather a woman aura of serenity in any setting. The loungewear pieces, some
with a deep passion for art, a student of language (she is fluent trimmed with tangy colored collars and cuffs, are often worn
in six) and a creative soul who, as a girl, in spite of having to by devotees on beaches and yachts, prompting a new set of
wear a uniform to school, made her own skirts. ˝I love powder designs for this very purpose. The rest of us are content to spend
colors, more shades than strong colors, more plains than the last remaining hours of peace with our Patrizia D. linen in
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restless prints,˝ she says of her aesthetic. ˝I might use small bed n Arianne Nardo Patrizia D. + 32 486 43 4 92 patriziad.be
