Textiles
Contemporary home textiles for all seasons
Designers Guild is known for it’s bright, fresh colours, with wallpaper and fabrics designs that range from extravagant florals to bold graphics, but always…
I was lucky enough to see one of Ptolemy Mann’s joyous, vibrant, colourfield textile artworks at the ‘Crafted: Makers of the Exceptional’ show earlier…
The two young British textile designers I’m writing about today were both taking part in last month’s New Designers show in the “One Year…
Last week’s Colour + Pattern = Joy! featured some of the bright and beautiful patterns seen at Part One of the awe-inspiring New Designers…
Leah Nelson The introduction for this feature talks about pattern designers past and present, but today we’re looking ahead to the design stars of…
Anni Albers, often referred to as one of the most influential textile artists of the twentieth century, has been on my design-icons-to-write-about list for…
The distinctive Shell Chair, designed by Hans J Wegner for Danish furniture manufacturer Carl Hansen & Son celebrates its fiftieth birthday this year. To…
Je Vous En Prie: ‘my pleasure, you’re welcome, please’ Despite sounding thoroughly French, Je Vous En Prie – a company specialising in woven silk…
Above: Archway, screen-printed cotton furnishing fabric, made in 1968 (image via V&A) Grimsby-born textile designer Eddie Squires (1940-1995) joined Warner & Sons Ltd (now…