Photo: Nickolas Sargent

Earlier this year, Chloe Redmond Warner launched RAD Goods, a line of textiles and furniture, at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House in Palm Beach, Florida. The founder of Oakland-based Redmond Aldrich Design enveloped her space in Peony Chintz, a floral fabric that originated with a gouache on watercolor paper that she painted during a summer in Maine. Three additional fabric and wallpaper patterns—Sunblock, Meadow and Busy Bee—are forthcoming, while the furniture collection starts with the Lucia game table and Sara bar cabinet.

How are interior and product design different? Home design filters through someone else’s style, while painting and product design is putting your own soul out there. So much about being a designer is collaborative, and that’s wonderful and necessary. But it’s also fun to make something just for you with your hands, which I’ve always loved doing. Making textiles and furniture feels artistic.

Photo: Tory Putnam

Is there a through line for your patterns? Yes! Nature and seasonality. It opens me up to make other collections—to paint flowers and plants of other regions and seasons, like a Moroccan chintz. It will help me make sense of my travels and organize the world. And I love the world more by noticing it in this way. I am immersed in it—the colors and plants.

What are some of your furniture design influences? We use a lot of vintage and antique pieces and are inspired by midcentury designs as well as Swedish and British antiques. But sometimes we need them to be more available and practical, with more shelves or at a certain height. RAD Goods furniture combines our love of antiques with our love of California materials like redwood, elm and cherry. And we have modern useful touches like drink holders, pencil holders and bar pull-outs. I want the client to say: “This is a piece where they thought of everything!”