Why Designing Women Insist on Performance Fabric - Crypton

Why Designing Women Insist on Performance Fabric

January 24, 2018

Women have become a powerful and influential force throughout the formerly male-dominated home furnishings industry. Female owners, creative directors, and C-suite executives at home furnishings brands, interior designers, entrepreneurial stylists, home design bloggers, and shelter journalists are among the leading voices in a thriving, multi-billion dollar industry. These women are major influencers of how we decorate our homes. Like all of us, designing women feel the pressure to have a beautiful home while juggling the demands of a powerful career with family, civic responsibility, and more. They look for home products with beauty plus brains, form plus function, and perfection plus performance. That’s where our performance fabric comes in.

White sofa sectional upholstered in a stain resistant linen fabric from Crypton performance fabrics.
A bright white sectional for a family room is possible with our fabric. (Photo Credit: Sara Tramp for Emily Henderson)

Interior Designer Emily Henderson Chose a Kim Salmela Sofa Sectional For This Living Room

This stain-resistant fabric was once a secret of design insiders, but thanks to the helpful voices of designing women, the word is OUT: it’s available coast-to-coast in thousands of places. All you have to do is look for the distinctive red globe logo wherever you shop for fabric or furniture, or search here for an upholstery fabric location near you.

Emily Henderson uses performance fabric on a white upholstered sofa from furniture maker Kim Salmela.
Emily Henderson’s clean, white living room makeover features Crypton fabric on a sofa by Kim Salmela, so that clean feeling will last. (Photo Credit: Sara Tramp for Emily Henderson)

Here are just a few examples of how designing women are using our upholstery fabric right now. Interior designer, stylist, and big-time social media influencer Emily Henderson discovered our fabric at her local Calico Corners store and used it to upholster the chairs in her dining room, where it takes daily food spills from two active toddlers. She really put it to the test and liked it so much that she has started using it on other projects.

Interior design influencer Emily Henderson stands by white sofa upholstered in performance fabric that is stain resistant
70s modern living room makeover with a sectional sofa by Kim Salmela, upholstered in Crypton. (Photo Credit: Sara Tramp for Emily Henderson)

Emily just completed a wonderful living room makeover for her blog and for Domino magazine, featuring our performance fabrics in California. For the living room, she chose a huge and gorgeous sofa sectional from furniture designer Kim Salmela, another designing woman who offers our fabric upholstered on the furniture she designs and offers on her site and through One Kings Lane. Despite the homeowners having a growing young family, Emily felt confident with her choice of a white linen stain-resistant fabric, as long as it had our performance technology. The result was a very chic, comfortable, snuggle-up seating area.

Designer Kim Salmela uses Crypton's performance fabric for her upholstered furniture.
Kim Salmela used our performance fabrics on upholstered furniture in her own home. (Photo Credit: Kim Salmela)

For designing women, a passion for interiors means their home is also a crossover with their business. They’re all about creating a home that’s an inviting haven, something beautiful and chic where it’s fun to entertain as well as comfortable to hang out and grab those precious moments of family time. This is true for most women we know. At Crypton, we’re devoted to ensuring more and more women (and men!) across the country get the information they need to source beautiful, tasteful home furnishings and fabrics that also hold up to real-life demands. After all, who needs a house where you can’t have red wine or where your coffee always has to have a lid in case a dog or a child knocks it over in a moment of playful exuberance? No need.

Emily Henderson uses a Kim Salmela sofa sectional upholstered in Crypton performance fabric for this family of five because it is kid-friendly and stain resistant.
The homeowners cuddle up in their newly redesigned living room by Emily Henderson. (Photo Credit: Sara Tramp for Emily Henderson)

We thought you’d also like to know that all of the furniture and fabrics in this story are 100% Made in America, and that all our fabrics are GREENGUARD Gold Certified for sustainability.

Emily Henderson Uses Our Durable Textiles In This Makeover

Emily Henderson stands next to dining room chairs that are upholstered in stain resistant fabric.
Emily Henderson stands in a dining room with chairs by Verellen upholstered in a blush linen fabric with our performance technology that’s spill and stain-resistant. (Photo Credit: Sara Tramp for Emily Henderson)

For the dining room makeover Emily selected Astrid chairs from Verellen, designed by Creative Director and co-founder Sabine Verellen. This furniture brand originated in Belgium and is one of the newest superstars in the furniture world in America. With their whole-home and wellness approach to design and their very stylish silhouettes, Verellen furniture has become the darling of interior designers and in-the-know design lovers alike.

Like Kim, Sabine offers among her company’s choices of fabric some performance choices with Crypton technology, or you can select any Crypton fabric from anywhere, and Verellen will have your chairs custom upholstered, what the industry refers to as COM (customer’s material). Emily chose a beautiful blush linen for these sleek yet curvy chairs. You can also find similar fabric at Calico Corners which can also be used for reupholstery if you love your current chairs but not your current stains. Hop over to our store locator to find an upholstery fabric location near you.

Gorgeous dining room chairs that are upholstered in stain resistant fabric in dining room designed by home decor influencer Emily Henderson.
See how Emily Henderson achieved her retro seascape montage and get more tips on designing with and cleaning our fabric in Domino. (Photo Credit: Sara Tramp for Emily Henderson)

We’d love to see how you use our fabrics. Let us know by posting and tagging us on Instagram.

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Why Crypton?

Crypton Home Performance Fabric is the leading stain-proof, odor-resistant interior performance fabric. Choosing Crypton Home Performance Fabric protects your investment in the upholstered furniture you use every day—sofas, sectionals, dining chairs, bar stools, and more.

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Crypton Home Performance Fabric is spill-proof and stain resistant because life gets messy. We’ve made the fabric cleaning process as easy and pain-free as possible. By brushing off dirt and wiping up spills as they happen, you can keep your upholstered furniture like-new by following our simple maintenance instructions.

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Crypton Home Performance Fabric is available from the brands you already know and trust, including Ballard Designs, Arhaus, and many more. Shop a wide selection of sectionals, sofas, accent chairs, ottomans, dining chairs, and more by selecting “Crypton Home Performance Fabric” for your upholstery.

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