Brentano Fabrics

BRENTANO FABRICSFounded in 1990 by Design Director Iris Wang and her husband, President E-Kwan Chen, Brentano has grown from a modest beginning of eight patterns to an internationally represented textile house. Brentano’s fabrics stem from Wang’s philosophy of balancing beauty + performance. Our growing collection of eco-fabrics expands this ideology by demanding textiles meet thoroughly researched standards of environmental consciousness while maintaining their beauty. Having celebrated our 20th anniversary in 2010, Brentano continues to offer a variety of innovative and interesting textiles, including eco-friendly faux leather, high performance upholstery, fire-resistant, outdoor and Crypton, Nanotex and GreenShield fabrics.  Iris Wang Founder/Artistic Director  Born in 1954 in South Korea to parents who had fled Chinese Communism, Iris Wang, Vice-President of Design & Marketing at Brentano, Inc, cultivated an interest in her Chinese heritage at an early age. At 21, she enrolled at National Normal University, a premier Taiwanese art school. In 1978, after teaching art in Taiwan, Iris came to the United States and began work on her MFA at Kent State University. She completed her Masters of Fine Arts degree in 1981 and began working with an interior designer in Chicago. It was a project involving fabric covered ceiling tiles that sparked Iris’s interest in textiles, an interest that eventually grew into Brentano, Inc.
Founded in 1990 by Design Director
Iris Wang and her husband, President E-Kwan Chen, Brentano
has grown from a modest beginning of eight patterns to an
internationally represented textile house. Brentano's fabrics stem
from Wang's philosophy of balancing beauty + performance.
The growing collection of eco-fabrics expands this ideology
by demanding textiles meet thoroughly researched standards of
environmental consciousness while maintaining their beauty. Having
celebrated our 20th anniversary in 2010, Brentano continues to offer
a variety of innovative and interesting textiles, including eco-friendly
faux leather, high performance upholstery, fire-resistant, outdoor
and Crypton, Nanotex and GreenShield fabrics.BRENTANO FABRICS