About Amenity

In a textile world often dominated by monotonous patterns, Amenity's large-scale, botanical silhouettes are as refreshing as a hike in the woods. With careful consideration to proportion and composition, each design works in harmony with its purpose to give the impression of sleeping amidst treetops or among wildflowers.

It was precisely this vision that prompted the nature-loving designers, Nicole Chiala and Kristina de Corpo, to create Amenity in 2004. Both children of pastoral America who fled to metropolises at their first chance, their designs are a similar mix of the wild and the refined.

Growing up in rural Minnesota, Kristina was introduced to the world of Scandinavian design by her modernist, Norwegian grandmother. With wooded landscapes, dramatic seasons and evocative light, the spare lines and bold colors of her ancestral culture made an enduring impression on Kristina.

In Northern California, meanwhile, Nicole was getting her design primer from days spent in the forests and fields of that incomparable region. Raised on a family farm, she was also absorbing lasting lessons regarding the purity and integrity of good design.

After becoming friends in art school, Nicole went on to work in publishing in London and Kristina to the advertising world of New York. Only when they both ended up in Los Angeles — a place where the wild and refined collide — did they see the way to combine their passions. Working from real cuttings taken from their gardens and walks in LA, they craft elegant untamed designs to be silk-screened onto luxuriously pure organic fabrics.

A meticulous search led them to a domestic textile company willing to realize their vision of large-scale composition artwork and, under their supervision, the Amenity duvet was realized. Pillows and prints soon followed.

Amenity is about bringing the solace of nature home. Continue to look for more earthy designs from the unabashed nature lovers that will make your home feel like a walk through a sunlit, wooded meadow.