See the Best Textiles from Our 2024 Design Awards

There’s no better way to experiment with pattern and color than through textiles, whether it’s a bright bath towel or striped sofa slipcover. That said, accents like area rugs and brand-new bedding can still get expensive, so if you’re wondering which pieces are worth investing in, you’ve come to the right place.

Apartment Therapy’s first-ever Small/Cool Design Awards just launched today, and we’re highlighting 44 of the coolest, smartest, most small-space-friendly home products. That includes big-ticket furniture and trendy lighting fixtures, but also design-forward textiles for your bathroom, bedroom, living room, and beyond. Get inspired with our roundup of textile winners below.

Table of Contents

1. Best Textiles at a Glance

2. What Makes Up This Category of Winners

3. Textiles Winners

4. How We Picked Our Winners

5. 2024 Small/Cool Design Awards

Best Textiles

• Bath Towel: Dusen Dusen House Stripe Towels

• Area Rug: Cold Picnic Embrace Rug

• Duvet Cover: Lulu & Georgia Tiger Hemp Duvet Cover

• Slipcover: Bemz Färlöv 2 Seater Sofa Cover

• Bedding: Cammie Bedding Ensemble

What Makes Up This Category of Winners

Our textiles category is here to instantly elevate your space, with winners ranging from a playful area rug unlike any you’ve seen before to stylish slipcovers designed specifically to cover IKEA sofas and seats. Your perfect bed makeover starts here, too, whether you love vintage-inspired bedding designs or want to mix and match more colors in the bedroom.

Small Cool 2024 - Textiles

1. Dusen Dusen House Stripe Towels

   Dusen Dusen

   $58

   Made of cozy cotton terry, Dusen Dusen’s House Stripe bath towels double as fun decorative accents — you can alternate between colorful reversible patterns. “We've carefully selected the color palette to create a cohesive set that adds a vibrant touch to any bathroom,” founder Ellen Van Dusen says.

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2. Cold Picnic Embrace Rug

   Cold Picnic

   $640

   Cold Picnic’s anthropomorphic Audience/Embrace collection takes bordered rugs to a new level, with whimsical arm motifs as metaphors for the safety and comfort of home. Van Dusen loves that “the color palette is sophisticated and the design is playful,” plus they’re “super plushy.”

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3. Lulu & Georgia Tiger Hemp Duvet Cover

   Lulu and Georgia

   $268

   Neutral but playful, this bedding from designer Sarah Sherman Samuel's Lulu & Georgia collection combines a stylish tiger print with long-lasting 100% hemp material. "[It] feels like a soft washed linen but is a sustainable fabric that is also even more durable," says Samuel.

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4. Bemz Färlöv 2 Seater Sofa Cover

   Bemz

   $499

   Why buy a trendy sofa when you can turn your plain IKEA couch into one with a striped Bemz slipcover? This skirted style will give your seat a cottagecore makeover in mere minutes.

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5. Cammie Bedding Ensemble

   Cammie

   $449 (was $684)

   For anyone who likes to mix and match their bedding, the Cammie x Apartment Therapy collection of duvet covers and shams is for you. The flower-inspired colors are fun and punchy, and you can easily layer them into your existing bedding.

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How We Picked Our Winners

Of course, there’s so much good design out there, so to compile this list of bests, we first consulted our editorial and commerce teams for the need-to-know products on their radars, plus reviewed a handful of reader-favorite bestsellers. We also welcomed submissions from some of our go-to brands, but to be considered for inclusion, all products must have been released within the past three years and cost under $1,000 (with the exception of sofas).

We tapped a team of in-the-know panelists to share their own design-forward faves as well: Ellen Van Dusen, founder of colorful textile brand Dusen Dusen; Sebastian Brauer, senior vice president of product design at Crate & Barrel and Crate & Kids; Priya Vij, founder of cabinet hardware company Hapny Home; Sarah Sherman Samuel, interior and furniture designer; DuVäl, interior designer and Small/Cool pop-up alum; Deirdre Maloney and Minya Quirk, co-founders of online shopping platform Afternoon Light and two of Apartment Therapy’s 2024 Design Changemakers; and Jeremiah Brent, interior designer and Queer Eye star.

2024 Small/Cool Design Awards

Want to see more winners? See here for the full list of winners for the 2024 Small/Cool Design Awards.

All prices were accurate at the time of publishing, but may have changed since then.

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