D’Décor now in Sri Lanka at ‘Exclusive Designer Fabrics’

By Gayani Perera

Exclusive Designer Fabrics, a Sri Lankan company ties up with D’Décor Home Fabrics Pvt. Ltd of India to market the exclusive designer fabric brand D’Décor here in Sri Lanka.

Exclusive Designer Fabrics is located at de Fonseka Road, Colombo 5. Exclusive Designer Fabrics is a new business venture which handles diverse sectors such as housing construction, interior designing as well as curtaining and upholstery etc. The store also offers a wondrous array of light fittings which are specially imported from the UK.

Exclusive Designer Fabrics which was officially launched on14 May is the brainchild of Ricardo Weimen and his wife who is a professional interior designer.

D’Décor Home Fabrics Pvt. Ltd. an India based company and is the world’s third-largest manufacturer of home fabrics, in the form of curtains and upholstery. In the last 11 years, the company’s turnover has increased from USD 8 million in 1999 to USD 130 million in 2010. D’Décor exports home fabrics to 65 countries worldwide. The products are designed by top-class in-house and Italian designers, and are also being used by top designers and furniture-makers in both Europe and USA. Their customers include some of the largest international brands such as Kravet Inc., Jab, Romo, Designers Guild and Casamance.

Ricardo Weiman, Director of Exclusive Designer Fabrics told the advertorial section of Sunday Times that one of the main problems that they faced during housing construction was to find the proper fabric materials that are required for furnishing homes. As we deal mainly in the construction of high end homes we were not impressed with the other fabric materials that were available in the market. Therefore we decided to bring down D’Décor which is one of the best brand names in the fabric world”, Ricardo said.

Currently over 400 varieties of fabric materials are available for sale at Exclusive Designer Fabrics however customers can also select whatever fabrics that they require and the store will meet these types of customer demands within four working days.

Presently Exclusive Designer Fabrics, which provides high quality fabrics for a niche market intends to provide its services only within Colombo and later on hopes to extend its services to the Kandy area as well.