Beauty & Inspiration
Ann Gish combines high design with linens you can live with.
Ann believed that the absolute worst experience was living with something that you were worried about damaging, or living with something that didn’t inspire you. Our linens promise ease to live with, and designs to inspire.
Our washable Ready-to-Bed 2.0 is sustainably produced from the pulp of the beechwood tree. Many of our Art of Home sets are Oeko-Tex certified, as well as washable.
Our ongoing collaboration with The Met takes inspiration from iconic artworks and artifacts in The Met an translates them into unique, sophisticated home textiles.
Pumice Taupe
Egyptian Faience
Wall tiles from the funerary apartments of king Djoser
Egyptian Faience, ca. 2630–2611 B.C. Rogers Fund, by exchange,
1948 48.160.1
Rich Heritage
1991
Ann Gish, an interior designer, takes a client-rejected custom tablecloth and decides to make capes.
Shortly thereafter, realizing this is not quite the money-maker, she decides to make washable napkins and placemats from silk dupione. She sets up a factory in her guest room, and realizes she is terrible at sewing a straight line. After hiring a sample maker, she takes her sample napkins and placemats to Mottura, in the LA Design Mart.
On the way, the radio announces that Bush Senior has just begun bombing Iraq.
2000
Ready-to-Bed Silk is introduced
2002
Our store in Coral Gables, Florida opens
2003
Our accounting and admin move to Barbados. For a brief period, we produce there and it is NOT successful.
2011
Our NYC Store opens on West 20th street. In Ann’s own words: “The philosophy of the store is to do what I feel like.”
2019
Ann sadly passes away. Her husband David and daughter Jane continue to run the company. Our HQ moved from NYC to Western Massachusetts.
2020
Our NYC showroom reopens at the New York Design Center
2021
The Met x Ann Gish launches to rave reviews - our first collection sells out at High Point Market.
2022
Wins the ARTS Award for the second time.
2023
Ready-to-Bed 2.0 introduced to rave reviews.
2024
Wins the ARTS Award for the third time.