Tartares

A lively spot, it became known as le Camp des Tartares the Tartars' encampment until, in 1830, it was dismantled.

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Pillows in Tissus Tartares fabric dress up 18th-century Sicilian sofas.

Designing Russia Alexandra Marshall 2011

Visual sources are not the only ones that inform Tissus Tartares; literary ones do as well.

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Malagasy · Okraina: faha-65 taonan'ny famindràna faobe ireo Tartares avy any Crimea

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"They bring a much-needed romantic and colorful flair to a very bland moment," says Adam Bray, a London-based designer who has used Tissus Tartares in his clients' homes.

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A sizable portion of Tissus Tartares' designs do exude this vintage ethnicity.

Designing Russia Alexandra Marshall 2011

The idea for Tissus Tartares was conceived in 2006, after Thompson and Farman-Farma, then neighbors in Manhattan's Green-wich Village, discovered a mutual love for all things Russian.

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The sofa is upholstered in Tissus Tartares' Ikat, a lively tribute to Russia's Constructivist art.

Designing Russia Alexandra Marshall 2011

"We're both collectors by nature," says Olya Thompson, referring to the samovars, national costumes, rugs, porcelains, antique books and mountains of vintage fabrics that she and partner Nathalie Farman-Farma have amassed between them and draw upon for their year-old fabric company, Tissus Tartares .

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The Tartares are very deformed, litle of bodie for the moste parte, hauyng great stiepe eyes: and yet so heary on the eye liddes, that there sheweth but litle in open sight.

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