GLANT Autumn 2023: The Milano Collection

GLANT is the creation of Gary Glant, who grew up surrounded by beautiful design. His childhood home, on the shore of Seattle’s Lake Washington, was filled with the work of Jack Lenor Larsen and other legendary names in design. When he is not traveling the four corners of the world, he lives in Seattle, where he founded GLANT in 1976. With the addition of Gary Glant’s son, Adam, in 2011, GLANT has solidified its identity as a multi-generational textile house.

GLANT is renowned for their exceptional beauty, craftsmanship, quality and performance. The collection is carefully designed: individual components coordinate effortlessly providing an extraordinary level of choice and sophistication for any environment and decorating style from rich to understated, classic to modern, refined to relaxed. The designs are inspired by colors and textures found the world over, from the company headquarters in the Pacific Northwest to Northern Italy, where the majority of GLANT’s textures are produced.

Situated in Bergamo, Italy, the GLANT mill is able to develop and create the finest furnishing textiles on the world market, producing plain and jacquard furnishing fabrics in cotton, linen, silk, viscose, pure wool, trevira, and acrylic. Suitable for high-end residential and commercial use, including handsome ranges of outdoor and flame retardant Trevira CS. Skilled artisans work on the looms to create finished product that performs beautifully and is essentially hand-made.

Today, the initial collection has grown to include approximately 2,000 selections and GLANT is an international leader in texture and color. Highly prized for their exceptional quality and spectacular range of contemporary and high-tech constructions, GLANT textiles are found in the most discriminating and beautifully designed international installations, including homes, hotels, restaurants, private aircraft, and yachts.

AUTUMN 2023

THE MILANO COLLECTION

Milano; que citta!!! The industrial and financial heart of Italy is beyond alluring and rich in culture and art, industrial design, fashion, and architecture. Sultry, sexy, deeply intoxicating. Start the day with a dark espresso in an aromatic and lively café. Enjoy a lingering and delicious lunch in between shopping, gallery, and museum visits. Begin La Sera with aperitivi and an addictive Negroni, or two. Feast your eyes on Art Deco interiors, richly colored in mahogany and ochre. End your day with a brilliant opera at La Scala. Celebrate life, Northern Italian style.

The first night and first visit to Italy for Gary and Vicki Glant was in September of 1976 in Milano. A late dinner that first day ever in Italia was at a famed restaurant named El Toulà where the wood paneled, artfilled, interior was only exceeded by the gracious service and beautiful Milanese clientele. Vicki and Gary were seated near a table of exquisitely dressed and glamorous young Milanese who were celebrating a special occasion and who shared their elaborate and impressive Gateau Saint Honore (a tower of profiteroles and tall thin candles) with them. It was at this first dinner that Vicki and Gary decided that they wanted to make a life in Italy. It was just that simple and spontaneous.

The next day Gary met with the principals of Texital, one of Italy’s leading high end textile mills, located in Bergamo, a Medieval walled city, forty miles to the Northeast of Milano in the foothills of the Alps in the Lake Country. Here began a collaboration that evolved twenty years later with Glant buying Texital and to this day this high-end producer of some of Italy’s leading furnishing textiles is owned by the Glant family.

Adam Glant was born in 1983 and has lived his entire life with Bergamo and Milano in his DNA having gone to school in Bergamo and having practiced law in Milano. It’s a family affair.

GLANT AUTUMN 2023: THE MILANO COLLECTION is a tribute and handsome reflection of Italy’s style capital. Exceptional locales of SAN BABILA, PIAZZA DELLA SCALA and VIA BORGONUOVO have inspired textile creation while moody and stimulating colorations have informed a palette that highlights and evokes the emotion and love felt for one of the greatest and most cosmopolitan cities in the world: MILANO.

SAN BABILA

Introducing SAN BABILA, a stunning texture inspired by Piazza San Babila’s prominent Chiesa (Church) di San Babila, a Roman era structure renowned for its semi-circular Romanesque apses.

Since Roman times, Piazza San Babila has served as an intersection for the road to Bergamo, the location of Glant’s textile mill, and is found at the base of Via Monte Napoleone, Milan’s iconic fashion district. This fabled and bustling piazza is constantly traveled by stylish Milanese going about their day.

Evoking stunningly sultry and sensual periods in Milan’s past century, San Babila is featured in five chic and sophisticated colorations and is designed to perform for both residential and commercial interiors, owing to its wool and cotton composition.

05 Peacock

PIAZZA DELLA SCALA

Introducing PIAZZA DELLA SCALA, a rhythmic and lyrical woven in a step/stair construction inspired by Milan’s famed Piazza della Scala which is home to La Scala, one of the principal opera houses of the world and the leading Italian opera house. La Scala, which means stair or staircase, informed the staired patterning of Glant’s newest creation for Autumn 2023.

Five alluring color compositions grace this texture, evoking sultry and complex relationships existing, remembered, and imagined speaking silent volumes from every angle of this fabled piazza.

01 Carrara

02 La Serata

03 Corallo Antico

04 Savoia

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05 Cobalto

VIA BORGONUOVO

Introducing VIA BORGONUOVO, a sumptuous and fashion-forward texture named after the iconic street, connecting Milan’s fashion mecca, Monte Napoleone, with the highly desirable and creative district of Brera. This iconic street was where Adam Glant lived while practicing law in Milano. Spectacular palazzos open up to the most chic and contemporary interiors and Glant’s newest creation Via Borgonuovo handsomely reflects these wonderfully designed spaces.

Posh and Luxe, Via Borgonuovo is designed to perform and is introduced in six standout colorations to please the world’s leading designers and architects who have chosen GLANT creations for the past five decades.

Granito

02 Ochre

03 Autunno 04 Pietra

05 La Serata

06 Acqua

TEXTURES WITH NEW COLORATIONS

GLANT is pleased to offer stunning new colorations to two of our outstanding existing textures.

NAGANO, a sumptuous boucle, adds Plum, Clove, and Chartreuse…. SHINJUKU, a chic and sophisticated tactile blend, adds Tobacco, Umber, and Laurel.

NAGANO

Introducing three new colorways: Plum, Clove, and Chartreuse.

NAGANO is a sumptuously soft and inviting boucle named after one of Japan’s scenically stunning prefectures, nestled in the Japanese Alps on the island of Honshu. Nagano is world famous for its lakes, mountain resorts and hot springs; an ideal namesake for this luscious texture.

Pale Taupe

04 Blue Spruce

Teal

08 Kabocha

Plum

colorways: Tobacco, Umber, and Laurel.

Tokyo’s upscale commercial center and, like the bustling district, this texture captures urban sophistication

rayon spun to perfection, invites with its wonderful “hand” and handsome perform for residential and commercial use, Shinjuku was GLANT’s northern Italian textile mill.

03 Stone

04 Concrete

07 Aqua

08 Deep Teal

11 Umber

12 Laurel

AUTUMN 2023 INSPIRED VIGNETTES

Treviso 02 Ash

Couture Haute Lattice N. 13 01 Taupe/Ivory

San Babila 01 Limestone

Lakewood 02 Sand

Palm Beach Grid 06 Stone

Piazza della Scalla 02 La Serata

Via Borgonuovo 01 Granito

Lakewood 08 Gray

Bergen 01 Camel/Pewter

Piazza della Scalla 01 Carrara

Verbier 12 Birch

Sorrento 05 Flax

Symphony 02 Sand

Glant Mohair 09 Turmeric

San Babila 02 Ochre

Via Borgonuovo 03 Autunno

Shinjuku 11 Umber

Ostermalm 02 Herbe

Shinjuku 10 Tobacco

Chaine 03 Melon

Glant Mohair 10 Cinnamon

San Babila 03 Mahogany

Piazza della Scalla 03 Corallo Antico

Roji 24 Salmonberry

Nagano 12 Clove

Chaine Trevira 05 Pomegranate

Piazza della Scalla 04 Savoia

Via Borgonuovo 04 Pietra

Nagano 11 Plum

Lakewood 42 Deep Bayleaf

San Babila 04 Citron

Nagano 13 Chartreuse

Shinjuku 12 Laurel

Verbier 13 Alpine Forest

Rive Gauche 08 Verte

Glant Outdoor Lattice 08 Deep Lagoon

Livorno 15 Forest

Piazza della Scala 05 Cobalto

Glant Outdoor Canvas 24 Cobalt

Rive Gauche 06 Bleu

San Babila 05 Peacock

Nagano 07 Teal

Bon Bon 08 Blueberry

Moderna Museet 05 Archipelago

Via Borgonuovo 05 La Serata

PRODUCT SPECS

(20cm)

(16cm)

Horizontal

Abrasion Resistance

Medium Duty Wyzenbeek Test Method (Wire Mesh)

45,000 Double Rubs Wyzenbeek Test Method (#10 Cotton Duck)

40,000 Cycles Martindale Test Method

Flame Resistance

Passes Calfornia Flammability Bulletin 117-2013

Heavy Duty Wyzenbeek Test Method (Wire Mesh)

40,000 Cycles Martindale Test Method

Passes California Flammability Bulletin 117

Treat to pass CA 117-2013 or use flame retardant barrier

Heavy Duty Wyzenbeek Test Method (Wire Mesh)

40,000 Cycles Martindale Test Method

Medium Duty Wyzenbeek Test Method (Wire Mesh)

30,000 Double Rubs Wyzenbeek Test Method (#10 Cotton Duck)

40,000 Cycles Martindale Test Method

Passes California Flammability Bulletin 117-2013

Passes California Flammability Bulletin 117

Treat to pass CA 117-2013 or use flame retardant barrier

Heavy Duty Wyzenbeek Test Method (Wire Mesh)

50,000 Double Rubs Wyzenbeek Test Method (#10 Cotton Duck)

40,000 Cycles Martindale Test Method

Passes California Flammability Bulletin 117-2013