Kravet Inc.

Kravet Inc. is a home fashion brand that distributes fabrics, furniture, wall coverings, trimmings, carpets and accessories.

The Kravet design studio is based in NYC, with warehouses and offices in Bethpage, Long Island and Anderson, South Carolina. The company has more than 40 showrooms in the U.S. and Canada and maintains offices and a distribution warehouse in Poole, United Kingdom.

Shmuel Kravetsky, later Samuel Kravet, (1873-1947) emigrated from Grodno, Russia to the United States in 1903 with his wife and three sons. As a tailor, he began supplying tailored apparel to an upscale clientele in the New York metropolitan area. Recognizing in his clients a desire for interior designassistance as well, he began fashioning decorative trimmings such as tie-backs and tassels, which he would offer when he made house calls. With this subtle shift from the design of apparel to the design of interior design products, Samuel Kravet participated in the historical development of a then emerging interior design industry.

In 1918, Samuel Kravet opened a small trimmings store on Norfolk Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In 1923, his four sons – Morris, Sam, Sol, and Hy – joined the business. They relocated to E. 21st St. and changed the company’s name to S. Kravet & Sons. In 1924, they began offering decorative fabrics.

While the craft of furniture and textile making and the art of interior decoration have been around for centuries, the notion of the interior design professional only began to emerge in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Before then, interior design had largely been the role of upholsterers and architects. Yet the affluence of ‘the American Century’ and the growth of the middle and upper classes broadened the base of those willing to hire professional designers.

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