Talk Shop: Brook Perdigon // Brook Perdigon Textiles
ABOUT BROOK
Brook Perdigon’s designs have been featured in The World of Interiors, The New York Times, House & Garden, Modern Luxury, and other publications. A designer and visual artist by training, Brook started her career creating textiles for interior designers in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. She went on to work for Tai Ping Carpets, designing textiles for high-profile clients worldwide, before founding BPT in 2015. Bringing new perspectives to classic patterns, she collects vintage textiles and paints abstract images suggestive of landscapes and patterns. Brook currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Michael, and their children, Mallory and Tanner.
Photo by Andrew Stewart
Describe your style in three words or less:
Classic + Modern with a twist!
What have been the three biggest influences on your aesthetic in your life:
My Southern mom and her love of all things home, fashion and design; my art & art history education; the creative community of Los Angeles- I am always discovering through the people that surround me.
How did you start your company, and what is your favorite thing about what you do:
I founded my company in 2015 with a handful of prints that I designed on the coffee table in my tiny little apartment in Los Feliz. I had been working as a textile designer for interior designers and then at Tai Ping Carpets for 10+ years and I was very eager to see what I could create from my own ideas. At that point in time, I would come home from work, put on a record, and sit and cut stencils for hours. I eventually hand silk screened these designs myself before having them professionally printed at our printer’s in Commerce, CA.
My favorite thing about having my line is the community that the business has led me to. Through starting and running the line, I have met so many exquisite people from interior designers and customers to photographers, copywriters, and other fellow creatives who help along the way. It has been such fun.
Do you have a mentor in your career, and if so, how have they helped to shape your trajectory:
Absolutely! Nathan Brookshire of The Eye Agency has been my sounding board since the very beginning.
He has taught me how to structure and lead a successful business by being forward thinking in sales, team building, and product development. We meet quarterly to review the company’s status and make plans for moving it along.
What does your home say about you: Our home is a mix of style and function. It is a space where my family can gather together amongst our favorite things: artwork that my husband and I have collected, textiles from around the globe, ceramics from my favorite designers, and so many toys for my 3 and 5 year olds.
Where do you find inspiration:
Museums will forever be a treasure trove for new ideas with art and textile history being the most inspiring. I love researching so if I find something visually interesting, I often dive into the cultural and artist’s history that surrounds it.
Photo by Andrew Stewart
Who are your style icons:
Currently Jessica Biel is looking so chic, and historically Carolyn Bissette.
What are your key ingredients for entertaining:
Good Wine, good Music, an excess of food, and Gregory Parkinson table linens.
Favorite Instagram accounts to follow for inspiration:
What design “rule” do you always follow, and which is made to be broken:
Rule to follow: Wallpaper the entire room (no accent walls please!)
Rule to break: Don’t match anything!
What are you working on right now:
We are working on launching a new line of performance wovens for spring 2023 and I am slowly (very slowly) working on a small collection of rugs for a launch in 2024.
Wardrobe staples:
Good Jeans / Denim Chambray Shirt / Brown Boots + Antique Jewelry : A little bit cowgirl + a lot bit class
Favorite fabric/wallpaper:
Fabric: Brink of Summer by Lake August or Hillside Garnet
Wallpaper I am really liking Antionette Poissons new collection and ROMA Alabaster
Photo by Andrew Stewart
Best interior advice you ever received:
Take your time!
Best career advice you ever received:
To have your career be an evolution of your interests and not a conquest of goals. The constant learning and evolving will be what keeps you interested and moving forward positively and successfully. And to learn as much as you can on someone else’s dime.
Types of home purchases you invest in, and save on:
Invest in: Antique hand-knotted rugs and Contemporary ceramic lamps by artists (Mirena Kim, BZIPPY, and IvyIvyIvy)
Save on: Furniture for my kids’ room
Your greatest extravagance:
Luxurious Hotels
Favorite places to shop for home:
Kneeland Co or Panopile
Photo by Andrew Stewart
Most prized possession and why:
My Kristin Beinner James painting of the ocean. For my 25th birthday my mother offered to buy me a painting that I would cherish forever. At the time, Kristin was making these beautiful little paintings on natural linen where she would push paint through the back of the canvas. When I went to her studio to select one, she had just completed a massive painting of the sea that I absolutely fell in love with.
Your interiors motto:
Your home should tell the story of the lives lived in it and be filled with a curated selection of travels, personal history, sentiment, and interests.
Your life motto:
All the sweet surprises of life are hidden in the unexpected. Go! Do! See! Explore! Reflect!
Advice for someone looking to define their own interior style:
Spend some time in your space before you make design decisions. Spaces often tell you what they want: simplicity, complexity, texture, layers, etc. Buying one piece at a time helps let the space dictate each addition.
Take Ten: My Favorite…
Food: Paella
Drink: Gin and Tonic
Film: Strawberry Fields by Ingmar Bergman
Hotel: House of MG
City: Jaipur
Bedding: Evenfall Home
Tea or Coffee (and how do you take it): My husband orders the coffee for our household from FAYES in San Francisco. It was his favorite neighborhood coffee when he lived there and it is so strong and good. I take it with milk and sugar.
Playlist: Currently LOVING the playlists that Studio Shamshiri is putting together.
Weekend Activity: Family bike ride to the local taco stand with our kids on the back of our bikes.
Design Book: All of them but currently loving Peintures Haitiennes.