The best magazine
Allegra Muzzillo is the owner and proprietress of the Brooklyn-based boutique, You & Yours Fine Vintage. This design maven has been a writer for Real Simple and Cottages & Gardens.
You’ve spruced up the living area and you’ve kitted out the kitchen. Now it’s time to focus on dressing the bed. (After all, it’s where typical Americans sleep away 8 hours and 42 minutes of each day.) Now, a good night's sleep is largely about your mattress, but a beautiful bedroom that you'll love to spend time in?
That is all about the bedding.
From ultra-tailored to tie-dyed, we rounded up a few of the most stylish bedding brands—with top quality and affordability in mind—to give you the lowdown on the best of their offerings. Our list of the top 8 places to score super-stylish bedding should get you thinking twice before automatically hitting the closest big box store for your next set of plain white sheets.
[Image Credit]
DwellStudio
Stylists love DwellStudio’s modern, graphic-centered, always colorful, globally-inspired offerings. One of the brand’s defining moments was back in 2008 when it partnered with Target to offer 6 lines of bedding and a baby collection that is still coveted by serious eBay watchers even today. And it’s no wonder. Fashion designer Christiane Lemieux (Isaac Mizrahi, The Gap, Portico), who founded the brand, was a textiles enthusiast for many years.
With DwellStudio,mixing, matching, and mismatching duvets, sheet sets, and shams is always encouraged and the company offers help on giving your bed that “layered look.” Shopping by pattern also helps when you're looking to narrow things down.
[Image Credit]
Jonathan Adler
Potter/designer Jonathan Adler takes his cues from mid-century design. Whether in his vibrant rug collections, his tongue-in-cheek needlepoint pillows or his lacquered trays, bold colors, zippy patterns, and preppy-chic style rule. In 2004, the designer branched out to bedding and bathroom accessories to much acclaim. Today, geometric, Greek key, and ikat patterns as well as sailor’s knots and garden trellises adorn the designer’s refreshingly unisex bedding options.
[Image Credit]
Castle
Sydney, Australia-based artist Rachel Castle founded this handmade homewares brand back in 2008. Since then, she’s been the darling of designers and stylists around the world, who lap up her unabashed use of fluorescent colors. Castle stocks artwork, velvet cushions and beach towels, as well as all-cotton bed linens ranging from understated sheets to funky pillowcases. We’re especially loving Castle’s Colour Patch throws and Tutti Fruitti flat sheets.
[Image Credit]
Zara Home
In 2012, the Spanish fashion giant got even bigger with the launch of its U.S. housewares division (it had been making housewares available overseas since 2003). Carrying everything from coffee tables to glass candlesticks, its offerings share a similar aesthetic to that of Anthropologie, but with decidedly more affordable price range. Here, bedding runs the gamut from embroidered Egyptian-cotton sheet sets to boldly-colored mohair blankets and contrasting linen bedspreads.
[Image Credit]
Garnet Hill
This Franconia, New Hampshire based company has been around since 1976. And while this may be a new name to some it is a longtime favorite for seasoned prop and photo stylists who, for years, have flocked to the company in search of good-looking, top-quality bedding. What started with one beloved English-flannel sheet that founders Grant Dowse and Pegge Kirschner purchased while on vacation became a robust business that grew to offer sleepwear, apparel, and home furnishings.
Monogramming options, as well as innovative pairings with popular textile designers such as Hable Construction and Lilly Pulitzer make it perhaps the most versatile go-to source for bedding. Boasting thread counts in the thousands and a wide array of fabrics, Garnet Hill is sure to please even the choosiest sleeper.
[Image Credit]
Etsy
Sure you can score a sweet vintage credenza, handmade soap, and original artwork here—but Etsy is also a great option for grabbing one-of-a-kind bed linens from the next up-and-coming textile designer (before they get famous!). Shibori-dyed sheets, Indian mandala tapestries that can double as coverlets, and custom-crocheted fraternity and sorority blankets are all for the taking at prices you won’t mind paying—especially for something that no one else will have.
[Image Credit]
A formative lifestyle brand with a “California point of view,” Serena & Lily came onto the scene back in 2004, when founders Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter sent their first catalog out to 400 boutiques. Initially, the duo concentrated on nursery room basics, but in 2008, grew to offer bedding and home furnishings. Dugan, with her background in decorative painting and textile design, and Kanter (who previously worked for Microsoft) ensure a well-edited offering with an eye on original patterns and quality fabrics.
This is the place for cotton-sateen sheets inspired by Spanish tile, hand-woven herringbone throws, and more.
[Image Credit]
After earning his stripes at Bill Blass, Calvin Klein, and DKNY, Paul, originally a fashion designer, started a retail business in the late-1990s selling tailored neckwear. In 2001, he entered the home realm with a line of handmade silk throw pillows, eventually expanding to stationary, lampshades, and all aspects of home decor. Classic, masculine, and just a bit cheeky, Paul’s handmade lines of bedding and housewares never cease to make us smile.
Hand-screened pillow cases, duvet covers, and shower curtains are emblazoned with Paul’s signature large-scale prints of animals, botanicals, sea life, and sailing ships.
[Image Credit]
Source: ...