Nestled on the second floor of the corner building on Orchard & Delancey in New York City's historic Lower East Side, Joe's Fabric Warehouse offers an impressive array of domestic and imported fabrics and trimmings, silks, damasks, velvets, tapestries, decorative trims and tassels. Our lively store offers help with window treatments and reupholstery. And, because we buy directly from international manufacturers, we pass along the savings to you.

We were founded 13 years ago by a staff with 30 years of experience in the fabric and design industry. We have the largest and most up to date selection of designer fabrics, upholstery and drapery in stock. We carry chenilles, velvets, damasks, brocades, mohair, canvases, linen, silks, embroidered silks, lace and various types of sheers. Our trim department has trimmings such as fringes, cords, tassels, tiebacks, bullion fringe and chair ties.

We select and order fabrics from Europe, including Italy, France, Belgium and Great Britain; fabrics also are imported from Asia, including India and the Far East. New fabrics arrive daily and are displayed for the customers. While Joe's Fabric Warehouse is geared to professionals, we offer very good pricing and remain open to the public.

Our clients include Broadway set designers, the movie industry, top designers and interior decorators. Past clients have included Bela Rossellini, Whoopi Goldberg and Sidney Lauren. Decorating yourself? Come and visit us today, we are open to the public.
Joe's Fabric Warehouse has been profiles in the New York Times and has been reviewed by Zagat.
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Joe’s Fabric Warehouse

Originally from Tunisia, Joe Cohen has settled on a spot on the corner of Orchard and Delancey, on the second floor, to bring you the lowest prices on domestic and imported fabrics and trimmings, silks, damasks, velvets, tapestries, decorative trims and tassels.

After arriving in the states in 1973, Joe Cohen worked in the fabric business around town until ten years ago when he opened his own store with his business partner Mimi Sasson, a designer and an immigrant from Paris, France.

The huge loft is chock full of fabric rolls primed for use in most any decorating needs and at bargain prices that always beat the pricier but less well stocked stores in the city. Joe’s fabrics are often profiled in the New York Times’ style and home sections, as evidenced by the clippings that he keeps by the front counter.

Stop by to see a true Lower East Side original and a real neighborhood mench at Joe’s Fabric Warehouse.

Merchant Information
Joe’s Fabric Warehouse
102 Orchard Street, NY NY 10002
Tel: 212-674-7089

Why Bother? Why Not!



And while you’re in the fabric store, rummage through the inexpensive remnant area for interesting fabric squares, which make a great wrapping-paper alternative for liquor or wine.

1 Place the bottle or box in the center of the fabric square.
2 Pull up all four corners.
3 Twist, tie, and cheers!


When a bigwig studio gift consultant needs fabulous fabrics for wrapping, he jets all the way from the left coast to the right, to Joe’s Fabrics Warehouse on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It’s a large discount warehouse with eclectic and elegant fabrics. There are so many that it’s impossible to see them all in a day. But that’s where Mimi, the perfect proprietress, comes in… she’s a shortcut to creativity. When I needed yellow fabric with teddy bears on it for one of my projects, I simply called the marvelous Mimi, and it was in the mail the next day. You should place her number (212-674-7089) in the permanent section of your Rolodex.


Big Brother… You ought to be in pictures!


Get a photograph that applies to the occasion:

• Couple (for anniversary or wedding)
• Baby picture (for birthdays from 1 to 90)
• Dad (for Father’s Day, birthday, etc.)


Next, copy the photo in color of black and white. Be sure to make enough copies so that your photo wrapping paper will fit the size of…



NEW YORK SPACES



ELEGANCE EVERLASTING



Designer Marc Char-bonnet’s casual yet striking style stands the test of time


When did you know you wanted to become an interior designer?
At 16, I saw the work of two designers up close and was fascinated by the experience. One was Ruth Masakowski, an interior designer in New Orleans. I watched her perform magic in the apartment of her daughter, my friend Nancy. The other was Joe Marrow. He did a project for a very good friend of my mother in an old New Orleans home- it was dramatic and lavish.

Finish this sentence: Marc Char-bonnet is all about.
Enjoying life with people who are a pleasure to spend time with. And in decorating, a casual, elegant style. My style is like a pearl necklace---- casual or formal, it always works.

What is your design pet peeve?
A client who won’t trust my judgment. Many people who hire designers are in control of all facets of their life. It can be difficult for some of them to let go ---- and let me do my job. Happily, it doesn’t happen often.

What was your most recent purchase for your own home?
A wonderful leather Chesterfield sofa by DeAngelis---- the best upholsterer in the world. I found it, or it found me, at a Christie’s house sale. What makes it so great is the uninterrupted leather skirt that falls from seat to floor with beautiful pleats from each buttoned tuft. I’ve never seen this detail on a Chesterfield, much less a leather sofa. And it was only $550. This would cost at least $10,000 to fabricate!

What is the biggest design challenge you have ever faced?
I was called for an interview, and lo and behold, it was Michael J. Fox and his wife, Tracy Pollan! They were looking for a new designer. I was surprised and nervous, but when two months went by and I hadn’t heard anything, I blew off the excitement. Then, presto! I had the job. It was the first project I had done that was published. The challenge for me was to please my clients.

What do you love most to shop for when starting a new project?
That’s easy: I love to shop for furniture—antiques or new pieces—and light fixtures, rugs…carpets, too. I guess I love shopping!

What space in New York would you like to redesign and why?
Times Square! When I moved here in 1987, I loved watching the Coca Cola sign: It was so beautiful, changing from an opened bottle to being completely emptied through a straw, all while a kaleidoscope of color spun in the background. That wonderful piece is now replaced by a garish billboard. What made Times Square so magical is gone.

What are some of your favorite New York City resources?
Pell Artifex for wiring light fixtures and a good joke. Two World Arts for custom-finished pieces. David Kassel for art hanging. Q Art Trading for simple black and nonacid mat framing. Joe’s Fabric Warehouse for “I need it now!” fabrics.

Given a tight budget, what is the one thing you splurge on?
The “jewelry” of the room: accessories. These may be lamps, carpet, beautiful picture lights on existing paintings, wonderful throw pillows, fantastic finds at auction or from estate sales.

What’s the one thing in your home you can’t live without?
There are two: Gomez and Magi, my Chihuahuas. As far as material belonging, I have a small iron table with black marble top that was a gift from my mother. I was 12 or 13 years old when I saw it and asked for it. She said no, then surprised me with it at Christmas. She said she was glad to find something that I truly wanted.


PERSONAL SHOPPERBy Marianne Rohlich




Ideas From a Show House To Take Home to Your House


“For designers, show houses are meant to evoke thinking and creativity,” said Mariette Himes Gomez, the designer of a second-floor study at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. “In fact, a show house is all about details.” And it is the details that add that special decorator touch. Here are some ideas from the house, at 713 Park Avenue (70th Street, open until May 20th), that you can try at home, many on a manageable budget.

1. Noel Jeffrey dressed the bed in the master bedroom with a mass of white organdy pillow shams and a gossamer silk quilt filled with silk floss from E. Braun ($425 to $750 each for the shams and $4.525for a queen-size quilt). Last week, Frette, the high-end Italian bedding company, opened its first American outlet shop at Woodbury Common Premium Outlets in Central Valley, N.Y., (845-928-4866). The shop is elegantly fitted-out, and the prices are at least 30 percent less than at the Madison Avenue store. Not all of this season’s merchandise will be there, but there is a wide variety. And if you are hunting for a wedding present, gift certificates from the outlet can be purchased there or by calling (845) 928-4000. Some Frette bedding available in the outlet this week: A queen-size sheet set in white Egyptian cotton with green embroidery ( two sheets and two pillow cases) is $382, originally $870. A white matelasse coverlet is $511 (was $730); Egyptian-cotton duvet covers are $490 to $1,800 (were $685 to $2,600). Cotton pillow shams, from boudoir size to king, include European squares for $144 (were $205) and standard sizes for $136 (were $195).
2. A small canvas canopy above a bed creates a summery French look. Katina Arts-Meyer used a hand-loomed canvas by Cote France, with no two bolts alike ($75 a yard from their showroom at 200 Lexington Avenue; to the trade). For a similar look, machine-woven striped canvas (each bolt the same) is $10 to $12 a yard at Joe’s Fabric Warehouse, 102 Orchard Street (Delancey Street).
3. Sallie Giordano turned a small plain-Jane room into a space that looks as if the details were constructed decades ago. Easily attached molding, available at lumber yards, was painted to look like wood by Omar Yacoub (718-349-1720). Creative types can try painting themselves.
4. This chair, by Larry Laslo for John Widdicomb, $2,380 without fabric, was upholstered in two contrasting colors, one on the front, the other on the back. Enterprising folks can re-upholster their tired dining chairs in a similar fashion with colorful fabrics.
5. Matthew Patrick Smyth turned this garden chair into a dining room seat with gold paint and cotton velvet cushions. Interesting garden chairs from thrift shops and tag sales or new ones can be treated this way.
6. The execution here by Eric Cohler is luxurious, but the idea is there for the taking. Gut a closet to create a bedroom alcove or an extra guest room. A twin-size bed or a sleep-sofa fits inside. Here, the bottom cushions of the twin bed are upholstered with quiltedfabric, the back cushions with a different wool material.
7. A bookcase doubles as storage for fireplace logs. Eve Robinson lined a deep bottom shelf with metal and opened up floor space around the hearth for other uses.
8. Mariette Himes Gomez used commercial hardware for wall-to wall, floor-to ceiling drapes. The rods, the kind used in hospital rooms for privacy, create a ripple fold, rather than traditional pleats. “There are more interesting ways to do a window treatment than a tired metal rod with hooks or rings,” she said. “It’s just a fresher and younger approach.” Her drapes are hung on aluminum hospital rods by Kirsch (No.93001), which come straight or curved, in various lengths.


ARCHITECTURAL DIGESTTHE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE OF INTERIOR DESIGN JULY 2001




DOWNTOWN FABRIC FAIR



New York designer Marc Charbonnet loves going to the Lower East Side. “It’s been amazing to watch it grow from a desolate area to a booming, chic downtown neighborhood,” he says. “And Joe’s Fabrics and Trimmings have been there since the beginning.” According to Charbonnet, owners Joe Cohen, Mimi Sasson and David Cohen have just about everything one could need in the way of textiles and trimmings, and at reasonable prices. “I’ve bought some incredibly beautiful wool paisleys there, as well as silks, plaids and tassels.” The shop also makes custom window treatmentsand has a range of brocades and cottons for draperies. Joe’s Fabrics and Trimmings, 102 Orchard St., New York, NY 10002: 212-674-7089.
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