Located in La Butte aux Calles, an adorable, remote neighborhood dense with lovely little treasures, La Clarière is a wonderland of hand-printed linens produced in limited series on site. But if you’re looking for precious chichi motifs with elaborate affect you’ve got the wrong address. La Clarière’s linens are clean compositions of color, shape and weave that blend romance and rusticity. Be they elegant arabesques on rough-hewn army linen, or austere silver moons on buttery-soft cotton, unexpected juxtapositions of material and motif give a light, modern freshness to the designs. Would you expect any less from an interior designer mentored by Andrée Putman? “The overall effect is unmannered because of the contrast between the patterns and fabric,” says Canadian-born owner Sharon MacDonald, who worked for 20 years creating interiors for big-name architecture agencies in Paris before launching La Clarière in 1997. “When I do my work, I cut the fabric into individual pieces and then stamp it as a composition. It’s like its own little world.”

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