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Carole Shiber has been putting her imagination to work in the home since 1994, when she sold her first hand-painted table linen collections to stores such as ABC Home, Barneys and Henri Bendel, Macy's & Williams-Sonoma. Since then her painterly hand has turned out nationally best-selling collections of iconic shaped placemats, ceramic dinnerware, glassware, bath products, stationery and now, with Merritt Designs, fully-coordinated, interchangeable and collectible melamine collections.
You may already be loving her Napkin-Ring-to-Coasterstm, enjoying the creativity of turning her no-iron napkins into 3-D flowers, or her equally inventive SculpTablestm ~ all-over hand-painted Linen Baskets that are uniquely engineered with wired hems, which simply sponge clean and flatten to store!
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As a painter and conceptual designer, Carole believes in the power of imagination and is intuitively inspired by the shapes, colors and movements of nature, and how we’re all connected, She works to inspire creativity and community, around the table, and in our home towns and cities. Her designs invite us to notice the quiet space, spirit and beauty all around and within each one of us.
Take her Leafy Napkin Ring-to-Coaster(tm), which uniquely turns a napkin into a flower, but once off the napkin, sits flat and pretty as a coaster. Their Napkin Folding Instructions demonstrate how fun it is to turn a napkin into a flower! Or how her shapely leaf and flower placemats interlock and layer, coming together to make something even more special than an individual place-setting.Aren't we more effective, and can become more compassionate as humans when we work together, bringing our unique and individual gifts to the table from time to time?
In true collaboration, it was Bill Cochran, Carole's business partner and musician husband, who developed Carole Shiber Designs' interactive Tabletop Garden — inviting us to to mix, match, layer and interlock Carole's fluid placemats into runners and centerpieces.
Carole is grateful to be able to follow her heart and can use her head in a business that can to remind us of our connectivity, love and creativity of everyday life.
Carole. Bill & daughter, Faith, circa 2014