“All we can do is be nostalgic,” says fabric designer Tania Vartan, who recently created a series of five fanciful jackets from her line of punchy interior textiles. Known for fabrics covered in trompe l’oeil malachite and marble, a riff on rattan, painterly irises, and clouds that might have emerged from an ancient Japanese block print, Vartan traces her nostalgia (and thus her inspiration) to the literary greats of the late 19th century through the 1930s. She adores the great Russians (Tolstoy...

Vartan in Italy, a city that provides endless artistic inspiration Artist and textile designer Tania Vartan creates strikingly accurate trompe l'oeil prints that originate in nature.  She got her start in fashion and was soon creating decorative murals for Mark Hampton.  She continued to grow receiving commissions from esteemed interior designers. This background in fashion, design and painting made a foray into textile design a logical next step, and her lifelike versions of natural materials...