Partnership info
Overview
- Type
- Product Collaboration
- Year
- 2025
Mesa is a textile homage to the rugged beauty of plateaus: its patterns and textures built around the natural striations and geological history of these landforms. The palette stays earthbound, and the weave itself carries real structural weight — density built to outlast a season, not just survive one — while the geometric shapes pick up the same stark contours a mesa holds at close range. The collection is engineered to live both indoors and out, which meant building the pattern and the performance fiber at the same time rather than one after the other: a durable, weather-ready cloth that still reads as considered rather than merely practical. The palette stays in earthen neutrals throughout, so the fabric reads as an extension of a landscape rather than a print laid over one.
Creative Process
Mesa solves a problem most decorative weaving doesn't have to: a pattern complex enough to read as considered, built from yarns tough enough to survive full sun and weather. The striations and stacked forms come from the weave itself, texture rather than a surface print. It's built as performance fabric first, which means the same pattern that reads sophisticated on a sofa survives a porch too.
Creative Direction
Mesa's campaign was shot on location at Santa Monica Proper, one of Wearstler's own hotel projects. Shooting outdoors, against real California light rather than a studio backdrop, let the fabric's plateau-inspired texture and earthen palette prove itself somewhere it was made to live.
Creative Direction
Tela's campaign was shot at DTLA Proper, one of Wearstler's own hotel projects — another case of testing a collection somewhere it actually has to perform, not a showroom built to flatter it. The application went past a single vignette: upholstered pillows, upholstered lamp shades, the deconstructed landscape pattern turning up wherever a room needed texture rather than just color. What comes through is real versatility: the same pattern that reads rich and considered in a hotel suite translates just as naturally into a residential one, which is really the whole point of building a fabric out of fragments instead of a fixed scene.
Mesa comes from watching how slowly a landscape actually changes. I wanted a fabric that could hold that same quiet, unhurried quality, indoors or out.
