Beauty everyday

Modernplum is the textile studio of Allison Warren, an American artist, designer, educator, and creative director. As a fourth-generation Los Angeles native, Allison's aesthetic approach is fully connected to the simple forms and a relaxed lifestyle immersed in sunshine, water, and mountain landscape of California. Starting at age 12, Allison helped her mom, an interior  designer, pick paint samples and textiles at the Pacific Design Center.

Allison received an MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy which focused on the layering of color and texture on raw canvas and linen, with a minor in Fiber. 

As faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Allison has developed original coursework in sustainable textile production, and fiber-based design entrepreneurship. Prior, Allison managed teams to deliver the architecture foundations design program at the University of Illinois. 

In 2014, Allison outfitted her home - a midcentury modern glasshouse - with sustainably-made textiles. This series emerged from a desire to "make better" home goods through color selection, local sewing and support of the economy, and use of natural and premium traceable fibers. Color, texture, and pattern of natural materials, and handcraft construction details like piecing, dyeing, edging, and color-blocking. 

Moderplum has been featured in Remodelista, House and Home, House Beautiful, House & Garden UK, CS Modern, and others. The studio appears in House & Garden's "The List" of resources for the trade.