Ashley Longshore For Anthropologie: Coming Fall 2009

Ashley Longshore, the talented, incomparable New Orleans artist extraordinare has been chosen by Anthropologie to design a line of one of a kind handpainted chairs for their fall 2009 collection. Scheduled to arrive in catalogs November 2009 this line, named ASHLEY LONGSHORE FOR ANTHROPOLOGIE, is the launch of an entirely new division for the furniture department of Anthropologie.

Ashley with her prototype chair line...

“I never want to do anything that takes away from my passion, which is fine art,” she says. “The chairs are an extension of that. I can completely express my artistic whimsy through furniture.” Longshore is combining different fabrics as well as other textiles and finishings. “The Anthropologie chairs are a little different – they have a great balance of modern and retro,” she says.

Ashley Handpainted these three prototype chairs to present to the anthropologie team so they could visualize her artwork on furniture, and they loved them!

Anthropologie had been searching New Orleans for artistic talent for their upcoming collections. An eight member design team including Chief Merchandising Officer Wendy Wurtzburger visited Ashley's Magazine Street gallery and the really liked what they saw.

Some of Ashley's Fine Art:

I'm definitly curious to see what her new line will look like...Seems like this Fall will be a great one for Anthro-