LAKE AUGUST
Lake August creates textiles and wallpapers that transform a space and spark the imagination. Each design is hand-drawn and traditionally printed, resulting in a collection with modern appeal that is rooted in the legacy of true craftsmanship.
The natural world, primarily the landscape of her native California, is what captures the imagination of designer Alexis Hartman. Patterns are translated from her paintings and hand-carved blocks into silkscreens and then printed onto linen and clay-coated paper.
Lake August is dedicated to the continuous exploration of natural materials and traditional techniques. Linen comes from a five-generation family-owned Belgian manufacturer that upholds a tradition of farm stewardship, natural cultivation and sustainable production. Wallpapers are printed using waterbased inks, on paper from a mill that uses renewable energy and responsibly-sourced fibers. Lake August believes in the beauty of well-made things, and these details are what make products well-made in the truest sense of the term.
A portion of each sale supports The Center for Biological Diversity, a non-profit which works to protect the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive.
Represented by Design Social Studio in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee
As spring breaks wide open, Lake August offers a collection of five sheer and semi-sheer fabrics whose patterns tell stories of ocean life and whose movement and drape conjures the interplay of light amid water and sun.
These fabrics are a multisensory experience: they sway and shift, transforming in sunlight and shadow. Some are textured like rocks worn down over time by the tides, some are soft as smooth sand. Collectively, they embody the fleeting moments of clarity in the shifting water of the coastline, as patterns arise and then disappear depending on how and where the light passes through the weave.
Each fabric was woven of natural fibers at the historic LA Mills in Los Angeles.
They each carry a lightfastness rating of Grade 4-5 or higher at 60 hours.
