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Martinique® Linen Napkin Set - Green

  • We are thrilled to partner with ATELIER SAUCIER to give you our iconic Martinique® in Green in new ways! Mixing our most beloved print with the signature merrow-edge trim detail ATELIER SAUCIER does so well - this time in always chic black - has yielded a collection of table linens that will dress up or dress down depending on the occasion at hand. 

    Each napkin is made start to finish in Los Angeles, California: the fabric is first printed by hand by our master printers there; it's then washed for maximum softness at a family-run wash house down the road; finally, the team at ATELIER SAUCIER expertly cuts, sews and trims each one before it makes its way to your table.

    About Martinique®, the pattern: The Original Banana Leaf Print. Upon returning from vacation in the South Seas in 1942, Remy & Lucile Chatain sought to recreate not just the rich visual landscapes they had experienced in the tropics, but the sense of lushness and exuberance those sights had filled them with, too.

    Together with their friend, noted illustrator and textile designer Albert Stockdale, they designed a large-scale botanical pattern to recapture and evoke those feelings, and mounted it in their showroom.

    When Don Loper, the well-known apparel and interior designer tasked with the Beverly Hills Hotel redesign came into their showroom, he knew he’d found the look he wanted. He re-created the Chatains’ mural-style installation he’d seen at the showroom, and expanded it to fit the corridors of the hotel. The result? An ageless icon.

    For over 80 years, we have proudly been the sole producer of the authentic Martinique® banana leaf fabric and wallpaper. Accept no substitutes.

     

TOP BANANA: Architectural Digest

The story of our legendary banana leaf pattern, as featured in AD's monthly "Object Lesson" column, which tells the stories of iconic designs.

Written by Hannah Martin
Architectural Digest, April 2019