Showroom

Dedar

Trade account to buy

Italian fabrics, wallcoverings, and trimmings, over 3,000 textiles. Established 1976. In the D and D Building.

Dedar is a family house from Como that spent more than twenty years selling into New York through other people's showrooms before taking a floor of its own in the D&D Building in 2018. The space was drawn by Michele Bönan.

Two collections sit in it. The Dedar line is the house's own, fabrics and wallcoverings and trimmings made in Italy, and it is deep enough that the showroom functions as a reference library rather than a selection. The other is Hermès, which Dedar has manufactured and distributed since 2011 through a joint company, and which is not carried by a general fabric house. A designer specifying Hermès furnishing fabric in New York comes here.

It is in the D&D Building at 979 Third Avenue, which is open to the public, and buying requires a trade account. The floor is high in the building and quiet, which in practice means samples get pulled and laid out rather than handed over at a counter.

The thing to plan around is that Dedar sells by the cut rather than from a warehouse of standing stock, and the Italian production calendar governs. August is the month that surprises people. A fabric approved in July can sit until September if the mill has closed, which is a scheduling fact rather than a service one.

A house that spent two decades distributing through partners and then opened its own room has made a judgment about how its cloth should be shown. Seeing the Dedar and the Hermès collections in one space is the argument for it, because the two read differently and the contrast is the point.