Carole Shiber has been putting her imagination to work in the home since 1989, when she sold her first hand-painted placemats and napkins to Macy*s New York ~ a $10,000 order which she single-handedly filled from her bedroom in Brooklyn. Orders quickly followed from other neighborhood stores: ABC Carpet & Home, Barney’s New York, Henri Bendel and Fellissimo. Next came a personal appearance at Neiman-Marcus, with a trunk show yielding record sales.
As a painter and conceptual designer, Carole Shiber continued to follow her heart and used her head to bring original ideas to often predictable tabletop design. And with her fresh and friendly looks, and an ongoing presence at seasonal Gift and Home Textile Shows beginning in 1994, Carole Shiber Designs had quickly grown from a popular one-woman act to a very successful cottage industry, utilizing the talents of local NY artists.
Then there was the $40,000 order from Williams-Sonoma, with the big truck pulling up in front of her brownstone apartment to pick up 96 boxes of her graphically-shaped, hand-painted linen leaf and peony placemats, with the coordinating coasters ~ the driver admitting that this was his first domestic pick-up ever.
Now known in the industry for popularizing the graphically-shaped placemat, Carole’s bold, graphic images and broad painterly strokes, ~ at once whimsical yet sophisticated ~ continue to inspire creativity at the table, and quite simply “make people happy”.
Having established a permanent seat at our nation’s table, Carole Shiber recently ventured into the bath with a licensing agreement with Croscill Home, introducing her first collections in August 2007. Using the shower curtain as a giant painter’s canvas, she applied her larger-than-life, nature-inspired images to shower curtains to create “getaway fantasies” almost as scenery, while bringing her signature graphic shapes to soap dishes and toothbrush holders alike.
You can find Carole and Carole's work at premiere Flower Shows and at Fine Art & Craft Shows in the northeast, featuring her one-of-a-kind sculpted linen bowls, napkin bouquets and leafy napkin cuffs, and her ever-popular interlocking placemats. You may also find her licensed designs at fine stores everywhere.
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