Designer Chloe Redmond Warner launches RAD Goods inspired by her summers in Maine.

Designer Chloe Redmond Warner, founder of Redmond Aldrich Design and creator of RAD Goods.

Although designer Chloe Redmond Warner, founder of Redmond Aldrich Design (redmondaldrich.com), is west-coast based, she has spent every summer since childhood with family on the island of Islesboro. Two years ago, Warner was inspired to paint the local flora, and the romantic motifs became the foundation for her recently launched capsule collection RAD Goods, an original line of wallpapers and textiles. Drawing on Warner’s memories of sunny coastal afternoons, the ephemeral beauty of seasonal blooms and her love of vintage, RAD Goods evokes a feeling of warm nostalgia.

RAD Goods graphic and crisp wallpaper Sunblock inspired by summer afternoons in Maine spent collecting flowers.

Tell me more about your summers in Maine. What do your days look like? My grandmother was one of five siblings, and they all had many kids, so around one-third of Islesboro’s summer population is a relative of mine. There is always lots of family around, and life revolves around sports, picnics and being social. There is a genteel summering vibe in Islesboro, a sense of refinement and tradition that’s made a big impression on me.

Can you describe the Maine summer house? My grandmother had each bedroom done in a different color. When I was little, my favorite bedrooms were the Peach room (easy to sneak out of and very beautiful) and the Blue room (had a fireplace, and you can’t go wrong with blue and white). My least favorite was the Brown room (upstairs with only a shower, no tub, ancient horsehair mattresses and truly almost all brown. It felt like a punishment).

The Peony Chintz fabric is lush and ornamental, romantic, confident and timeless. Available in four colorways.

I’d love to hear more about the inspiration for launching RAD. I’ve always loved to paint and draw. I was a studio art minor, and at one point, I wanted to be an oil painter and a portraitist, but I haven’t been creative in that way since going to architecture school. I wanted to do wallpaper, fabric, and furniture, but I realized I was waiting for someone to ask me. A colleague suggested I take a surface pattern class, which I did in the summer of 2023 in Maine, and every day I painted outside. The patterns for RAD Goods were based on those paintings, I think I did the Busy Bee print on day one.

RAD Goods was shot and styled on location in Maine.

Can you speak to how Maine specifically inspired the aesthetic of RAD Goods? Sister Parish lived in Islesboro and did many of my favorite places there. It’s where I learned to appreciate a layered, comfy, confident floral interior. The house I grew up going to has many beautiful English and early American antiques, and I always admired a “done” room. I tried to make my first collection full of patterns that would work well together.

At what point in your life did you realize that you wanted to be a designer? At the end of college, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I loved the idea of being able to choose beautiful things and put them into conversation, but I worried that the job wasn’t serious enough. I started telling people that I was considering architecture school, and I preferred the reactions I got. Perhaps I didn’t attend architecture school for the right reasons, but I’ve returned to a place where I can admit freely that I love decoration and ornament, florals and color AND architecture AND art. It’s all valuable and worthy in terms of creating a good atmosphere, which is what I really care about.

I read that you have a book coming out in 2026, can you tell me more about it? YES! It’s a book about atmosphere and aesthetic intelligence, and again, it’s another thing I’ve always wanted to do. I did the proposal last spring, and we shot the final project last week in Montecito. The working title is “Pretty Weird.”

Rolls of wallpaper from the new RAD Goods capsule collection.

Any other news about the brand that you want to share? Do you have more products planned? Now that we have a site dedicated to selling the textiles we are aiming to add a new capsule every year.