Liora Manné is the one to watch in the world of home design and fashion accessories. Liora Manné showcases her lifestyle concept in her first store in New York’s SoHo, which opened last year. Manné is the first designer to effectively bridge home and fashion design with distinctive textile creations. Manné, a native of Jerusalem, Israel, moved to Atlanta at age 16 with her family. She graduated from Georgia State University, then completed a masters program in textile design and engineering at North Carolina State University. Manné then moved to New York and began designing fabrics for the apparel industry, eventually establishing her own thriving company.
Despite her success, Manné has always relished experimenting with new and existing mediums to create new textures and designs. Utilizing her Masters degree in textile design and engineering, Manné developed an innovative process fusing the ancient art of felting and textile technology. Fibers are layered and then interlocked by hand needle-punching to create custom blended colors that define her painterly patterns. She named the innovative fiber technology method Lamontage: “lamina” for layering and “montage” for image. The Lamontage medium showcases Manné’s extraordinary color sense and her distinct design aesthetics.
Manné recently expanded the Lamontage textiles creating a Liora Manné Lighting Collection for AF Lighting debuted in October 2004 with a new blending of Lamontage and Montique shades and resin bases, as well as, interesting shaped hanging shades made of Lamontage and Montique. Each of Manné’s new collections reveals her strong design aesthetics and incredible color sense. The possibilities are endless for this visionary artist and designer.
Liora Manné has a unique talent of transforming everyday objects into artful expressions that enhance daily life.
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