designer profile lori weitzner Textile Forward: Weitzner predicts more calming patterns and colors for the business traveler and more designs site-specific for the vacation traveler. “It is a hard world out there right now and when people travel they want to feel comforted as well as comfortable. People now feel when they do spend the money and time to go on holiday, they want to really feel they’re away. So textiles will be designed to be part of that concept.” About Her: If Weitzner were not a textile designer, she would be a romantic novelist. Other things you might not know about the designer—she hates skiing, cries at soppy television commercials, and dreams of being President Obama’s “secretary of design”. New York State of Mind: The designer loves everything about New York City. “I love all the chaos and contrasts. It inspires me to create healing and calming products for a place so full of color and rhythms and people living at an insane pace.” weitznerlimited.com; loriweitzner.com Right, clockwise from top: Mood Shadow, a new wallcoverings collection; the Grassi ornaments from the Carnevale line from Samuel & Sons Passementerie; a detailed shot of Enduit, an uncolored plaster wallcovering; and Empress Beaded Fringe shown in rose quartz from the Dynasties collection. 76 hospitalitydesign www.hdmag.comhttp://www.weitznerlimited.com http://www.loriweitzner.com http://www.hdmag.com