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Article: Table settings get designer treatment
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 6, 1990
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Crystal, china, silver, flowers, mood music and food all are a
part of the art of table setting.
What's missing? Table linens, the touch that harmonizes the
components into graceful softness.
When the highly regarded interior designer Bebe Winkler, a former
fashion model, launched "Bebe's Home," a collection of tabletop
accessories in the fall of 1988, place mats became "place palettes,"
tablecloths or overlays became "table shawls," and napkin rings
became "fashion wraps."
Since then, the Winkler collection of fringed and trimmed
merchandise has grown from a line of three to 300 accessories, going
beyond tabletop to bed covers, elegant towels, decorative cushions
and fashion shawls. ...