Our October Fabric Lab: Introducing Thalia Botsari Design

Last week, we spent the most wonderful rainy October in Berlin evening with textile designer Thalia Botsari, who has just launched her very first handmade interior textile collection under her brand, Thalia Botsari Design.

There is something undeniably special about her work. Thalia shared that she once made a personal promise to step away from her UX design career and focus on just three things:

Be creative.
Rest.
Make things that bring joy.

It sounds simple, but the commitment was anything but easy. Leaving a steady job for a period of exploration felt terrifying. But by giving herself three uninterrupted months to create—without worrying about what came next—she ended up producing enough work to bring a full textile collection to life. 

“Like a puzzle, I slowly started putting the pieces together of what a dream come true would look like.” 

Thalia is the kind of designer who creates freely and fearlessly—guided by play, materiality, and experimentation. She arrived with a suitcase (yes, a suitcase!) bursting with sketches, color tests, marbling studies, embroidered samples… her very own traveling textile laboratory. And we loved every bit of it.

What makes this stage even more exciting is that she is truly just emerging. It’s the moment before the world catches on—when creativity leads, and the path is still being discovered. The Berlin design market can be tricky to navigate. But her vibrant color stories and expressive patterns feel like exactly what we all need right now. The new wave of minimalism—endless neutrals and “quiet luxury”—is beginning to feel, well… quiet. Thalia is the fresh antidote.

She is also an antidote to our AI-saturated world. Her textiles are grounded in slow craft: watercolor, marbling, embroidery—true hand-touch processes that feed into her final prints. Every fabric feels intentional, imperfect in the most human way, and completely alive.

She’s soon expanding into wallcoverings, with plans to debut them at the Paris trade show this January.

As Thalia describes her mission:

“I started ‘Thalia Botsari’ with a belief that fabric should be more than decoration—it should tell a story. A story of craftsmanship, creativity, and care for the planet.”

“For me, true luxury is knowing that what you bring into your home is made with integrity and made to last.”

Personally, I’m already dreaming of upholstering a headboard in one of her playful evil eye patterns.

Before founding her brand, Thalia studied Fashion Design and Business Studies (with Honors), explored accessory and shoe design, and built a career in UX. You can feel all those layers—technical skill, curiosity, storytelling—woven into her textiles.

She’s following a creative instinct that clearly knows where it’s going. And we can’t wait to say we knew her when.

If you’ll be in Paris January 15-19th for the Maison & Objet show this January—designers, keep an eye out for Thalia Botsari.