NEW YORK, New York— Dimitrios Design Archive, a collection of decorative textiles, artwork and wallpapers amassed over a 40-year period has been put up for sale. The owner, Dimitrios Apostulou is retiring. Dimitrios has supplied designs to leading international designers and stylists for the fashion and home industries such as Ralph Lauren, Versace, Clarence House, Scalamandre, and Dufour. Over 8,000,000 antique textile documents, original paintings, yarns dyes, jacquards, brocades from Africa, Asia, South America—including the Coco Chanel wovens collection and wovens are included. The comprehensive collection features pieces from 1100 BC through the mid 20th century. A small sampling includes pre-Colombian tribal wovens, hundreds of mill trial sample books, Kashmir shawls, original Chanel wovens and knits, yarn dyed stripes and plaids, ikats, Japanese Indigos, and thousands of original paintings. “I’ve collected unique textiles from all over the world,” Dimitrios says. “it has been an incredible run, but it’s time to close my doors,” Apostulou. explains. Prior to migrating to America in 1969 and becoming a U.S. citizen, Apostulou was a navy officer serving the king of Greece during the Greek Revolution.