Rachel Doriss—who joined the company as a designer under founder Mark Pollack in 2000—oversees the in-house design team and guides the creative vision for each textile collection. They are makers, and they are artists–they believe in the value of drawing with a pencil rather than a computer mouse. Besides the control it gives over the quality of the line, putting pencil to paper expresses a uniquely personal hand, and the majority of Pollack’s patterns begin as hand-drawn sketches. Additional design factors then come into play: color, texture, luster, fiber content, hand and scale.

In the Pollack Studio, these individual elements are balanced and perfected, becoming the building blocks of a fabric’s structure–and reminding us that we experience fabric on many levels and with most of our senses. Pollack has the full range from Lux residential, dreamy drapery, durable upholstery and outdoor, and hospitality textiles to round out every project.