Radica Textiles – Baltimore Magazine https://www.baltimoremagazine.com The Best of Baltimore Since 1907 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:45:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Radica Textiles – Baltimore Magazine https://www.baltimoremagazine.com 32 32 West Elm to Open at Harbor Point https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/styleshopping/west-elm-to-open-at-harbor-point/ Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:51:00 +0000 https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/?p=30696 Continued]]> Hold onto your wallets, as beloved home decor and home accessories store West Elm will be opening its doors on the bottom level of the new Exelon building in Harbor Point. The 11,377-square-foot location will host the brand’s fall collection, an in-store Design Lab with complimentary design services, and West Elm Local, which the company launched in 2013 to highlight and celebrate artists, makers, and unique, regionally sourced pieces.

Seven Maryland-based creators were chosen for the new store, including Dylan Design Co., Waxing Kara, Radica Textiles, and Foxwood Co.

“This opportunity is great visibility for our small company,” says Amy Johnson, co-owner of wooden home-good company Foxwood Co. “We love that folks can get a taste of of our work in store, and then go online to check out our one-of-a-kinds and bespoke pieces. We appreciate the initiative, opens an avenue for the community to engage with their local artists in the context of a larger company.”

While the initiative made seem revelatory for a company with such a big brand, other local artisans say they are not surprised.

“West Elm has sort of become synonymous with promoting local manufacturers,” says Sarah Templin of Radica Textiles, with many of the local brands being found at pop-up shops, markets, and Instagram, it will be exciting to see who else the national chain brings in.

Kara Brook of Waxing Kara, who will be unveiling a custom version of her products made exclusively for West Elm and selling her organic honey lip line, agrees.

“The West Elm brand cultivates creativity and promotes the handmade movement,” she says. “It’s just really awesome that such a big place found us and invited us in as they did.”

The grand opening will be held on September 15.

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START FROM SCRATCH: My husband, Bruce [Willen], and I moved into the house in 2010 and had to do everything. There was no electricity, plumbing, or heating, so we did about a year of renovation before we could really move in.

MIX AND MATCH: Some of the furniture we got from Home Anthology, a store in Catonsville. We also have a lot of family pieces. It’s a real mix of things we have acquired along the way.

Templin Chairs
Photography by Cory Donovan

IN HOUSE: The couch is an old midcentury modern hand-me-down that’s usually covered in a quilt or two. The back cushion is upholstered with my screen-printed Radica fabric. We also have some curtains and an armchair upholstered with my fabric as well.

DESIGN DREAM: In the living room, we have vintage theater posters from Poland, which just seems to have exceptional graphic designers doing these posters.

WALL OF FACES: In the dining room, we have a portrait wall, which contains mostly portraits that friends and family have made for us. A friend of ours had a wedding and, instead of having a photographer, he had someone doing drawings of all of the guests, so we have one of them. The portrait wall is constantly evolving.

Templin Art
Photography by Cory Donovan

FROM CATHEDRAL TO CUPBOARD: The cabinets in the kitchen were all custom-made for us by Emmanuel Nikolaidis, who is a cabinetmaker here in town. The darker wood ones were actually made out of demolished church pews that we found.

IDIOSYNCRATIC ILLUMINATION: One year for Thanksgiving, all of the family came over but my grandfather was unable to get up the three sets of the stairs to get into the house, so we ended up moving the whole Thanksgiving dinner into my parents’ garage. We made these impromptu chandeliers out of garden supplies. One of them is now hanging in our dining room. It’s just one of those iron planters with Christmas lights thrown into piles in it.

Templin Bath
Photography by Cory Donovan

I SAW THE SIGN: Bruce does a lot of hand lettering for his company, Post Typography, and we are really into the look of old grocery-store signs, so I got this sign painter in the neighborhood to make those signs above the record player for Bruce’s birthday. The hand painted “J. Mayer Willen” sign in the bathroom is from the law office of Bruce’s grandfather, who practiced law in Baltimore until the age of 97 when his last client died.

FACE THE MUSIC: We have a lot of records from our friends’ bands or that we found at thrift stores. We have a nice speaker system that is throughout the entire first floor, so we often have music playing.

NOW PLAYING: Lately, I’ve been really into Paranoid, the old Black Sabbath album. But also the new Peals album—Bruce’s band—that is about to come out.

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