Kravet

Kravet, Inc. was founded by Samuel Kravet in 1918 on the Lower East Side of New York as a small fabric shop, and five generations later it is the largest to-the-trade designer textile, wallpaper, trim, carpet, and furniture distributor in the United States. Headquartered in Bethpage, New York and run today by Cary Kravet (CEO) and Scott Kravet (President) with a fifth-generation family bench in active operating roles, the company has built its scale by acquisition: Lee Jofa in 1989, Donghia in 2005, GP & J Baker plus Mulberry Home in 2010, and the Sanderson Design Group US distribution agreements (Threads, Clarke & Clarke US, William Morris US) layered on top. The combined portfolio gives a single Kravet showroom — D&D Building in New York, Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, ADAC in Atlanta, plus the regional design centers — the broadest fabric, wallpaper, trim, and furniture library in the to-the-trade market.

The Kravet Inc Family of Brands

Kravet is the flagship house, covering a broad commercial-luxury fabric, trim, wallpaper, carpet, and furniture program. The Kravet Couture line sits at the top of the Kravet pricing pyramid; the Kravet Basics program anchors the volume end. Kravet Furniture (sofas, sectionals, club chairs, dining chairs, case goods, beds) is built domestically and offered exclusively COM (customer's own material) so designers can specify any fabric from the broader Kravet library. Kravet Contract serves the hospitality, healthcare, and corporate hospitality channels with performance-graded textiles and casegoods.

Lee Jofa — founded 1823, acquired by Kravet in 1989 — is the principal name for English-heritage fabric and wallpaper in the US designer market. The Lee Jofa Modern line carries the contemporary designer collaborations including the long-running Kelly Wearstler for Lee Jofa Modern collection. The Lee Jofa house program covers chintz, paisley, embroidered floral, and traditional English textile vocabulary alongside the brand's Heritage and Couture archives.

Brunschwig & Fils — founded in France in 1880 by Achille Brunschwig, with US operations established in 1929 — was acquired by Kravet in 2010. Brunschwig is the principal name for French-traditional fabric, trim, and wallpaper in the US: classical damasks, brocades, embroideries, and the Brunschwig Carpet program. The Brunschwig archive (over 50,000 documents) is one of the most-referenced textile design libraries in the world.

GP & J Baker — founded 1884 by the Baker brothers (George Percival and James) — is one of England's oldest continuously-operating fabric houses and was acquired by Kravet in 2010. GP & J Baker holds royal warrants and is best known for its document florals and re-issued archive prints, alongside ongoing designer collaborations (GP & J Baker x Pooky for lighting; GP & J Baker x Designers Guild collaborations).

Donghia — founded by Angelo Donghia in New York in 1968 — defined the modern American designer-trade luxury furniture and textile category in the 1970s through 1990s. Acquired by the Kravet family in 2019, the brand continues the John Hutton signature pieces (still in continuous production from his 1980s-90s Donghia collection) and adds new upholstery, case goods, lighting, and textile drops each year.

Mulberry Home — the home division of the British luxury house Mulberry — covers fabric, wallpaper, and trim distributed in the US through the Kravet network. Best-known for its English-pastoral vocabulary (Hedgerow, Berry Branch, Flying Ducks) and its print-archive reissues, Mulberry Home runs as a discrete brand within the Kravet portfolio.

To-the-Trade-Only Distribution

Every Kravet Inc brand sells exclusively to-the-trade: through Kravet's national showroom network and through the kravet.com trade-account portal. Direct-to-consumer purchase is not available. For homeowners, the workflow is to engage an interior designer, an architect, or a Kravet-account holder (most independent home stores, paint stores, and design retailers on Main Street are Kravet account holders) who can pull memos, place orders, and manage delivery. The Kravet showrooms welcome consumers visiting alongside their designer.

Designer Collaborations

The Kravet collaboration bench is one of the deepest in the industry. Active and recent named-designer collections include Kelly Wearstler for Lee Jofa Modern, Kate Spade Home for Kravet, Suzanne Kasler for Lee Jofa, Thom Filicia for Kravet, Windsor Smith Home for Kravet, Sara Story for Lee Jofa, Lilly Pulitzer for Kravet, Alessandra Branca for Kravet, Barbara Barry for Kravet (Endurance Carpet and upholstery), Alfredo Paredes for Lee Jofa (the Cocuyo Collection), Hunt Slonem for Lee Jofa (Belle Terre), and Carol Benson-Cobb for the broader Kravet wallcovering program. Furniture collaborations include Brown Jordan for Kravet (outdoor) and Kwalu for Kravet Contract (hospitality). Each collaboration is released as a standalone lookbook supported by full memo, showroom display, and trade-portal availability.

Product Range

The combined Kravet portfolio covers nearly every to-the-trade home-furnishings category: fabric across the broadest possible range (sheers, prints, wovens, embroideries, performance, outdoor, contract); wallpaper from traditional document prints through contemporary murals (the Les Paysage Murals program, the Carol Benson-Cobb wallcoverings, the Lee Jofa and Brunschwig wallpaper archives); trim (braids, fringes, cords, tassels) from the Kravet, Lee Jofa, and Brunschwig houses; carpet through the Kravet Carpet, Lee Jofa Carpet, Brunschwig Custom Carpet, Mulberry Home Carpet, and Barbara Barry Endurance Carpet programs — covering hand-knotted, hand-tufted, flatweave, broadloom, and outdoor formats; furniture through Kravet Furniture, Lee Jofa Furniture, Donghia, and the contract program; lighting and accessories through select brand collaborations.

How to Request a Kravet Catalog by Mail

Each Kravet, Lee Jofa, Brunschwig & Fils, GP & J Baker, Donghia, and Mulberry Home lookbook listed on this page is mailed free to homeowners, design professionals, and Kravet account holders. The premium lookbooks (Kravet Furniture, Lee Jofa Whitley Hall, the named-designer collections) carry the highest-quality printed photography in the to-the-trade fabric and furniture category and are worth requesting in print form when planning a serious Kravet-led project.