LIVE 24-SEVEN D’ YOU KNOW,


Following on from last month’s editorial, when I was expounding the virtues of a good interior designer, and why you should really consider getting one, I was visiting a new client the other day, when the lovely lady said something that pulled me up short.


I ’D NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT . . .


“Your column is really good” she said (I liked that bit), “and I’m glad I got in touch with you, despite being worried that everything you did was going to be ultra-flamboy- ant.” And that got me thinking; I suppose that pretty much all the product I wax lyrical about in these pages from month to month is, to say the least, on the impactful side. It’s the same with our showroom window. We always have at least one fabric or paper on display that is designed to be a “Wow, look at that !!!” traffic stopper.


Of course, none of that means that’s all we work with, or would necessarily suggest for most homes. In fact, I’d say the really strong stuff features in considerably less than half our schemes. Mind you, we always put together three possible schemes for each room we’re looking at, one of which tends to be a “wild card” scheme. You’d be amazed how many folk say “I’d never have thought of that, but that’s the one I’m having.” Plains, semi-plains and textures are fabulous – the backbone of many an interior, but they can be a bit yawn-provoking to talk about.


Designers Guild


That’s why, dear reader, it gives me great pleasure this month to introduce to you the new, and yes pretty blooming flamboyant, collection from one of my favourite design houses – the fabulous Designers Guild !!!


Their new Autumn/ Winter 2018 collection is entitled Jaipur Rose, and draws inspiration from a remarkable woman, the nineteenth century explorer Isabella Bird, who travelled the globe from China and Japan to India and Persia. This seems to me entirely appropriate, and more than a little reminiscent of the way Tricia Guild, the delightful founder of Designers Guild, searches far flung lands for her own design inspiration in our day – but I digress. This season’s designs are imbued with a global and glamorous sophistication, inspired by mementos, writings and photographs from Isabella’s travels.


The collection feels distinctly exotic. The designs are stunning, enhanced by the fabulous range of base cloths used; sharp linens, softer linen unions, heavy cottons, crisp taffetas, sumptuous velvets . . . the list goes on. The colours are distinctly Designers Guild - saffron and scarlet, rose and ochre, alongside moss, celadon and linen tones.


The main print book, bearing the collection name, is just exquisite and somewhat ground-breaking. Rather than follow the well-established route of producing a design in four or five colourways – some of which are superb, while the rest can be somewhat average – they have opted to offer mostly just one, and sometimes two, colourways only


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John Biddell - John Charles Interiors


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