NEW COLLECTIONS AT LAST ! ! !
It seems a very long time since I’ve reviewed a new collection. There are of course several reasons for this - the main one being that about this time last year, as I’m sure we’re all painfully aware, everything ground to a halt. Collection launches were put on hold and, like many other industries, the interior design community had to shut up shop, batten down the hatches, and wait for better times.
Well, I’m immensely glad to report that those times have arrived !!! We are now beginning to see the seeds of new growth sprout into young, tender saplings, which with the right cultivation (i.e. if we all behave ourselves and don’t rush selfishly forward too quickly) will soon become healthy trees. But enough of the botanical analogies.
As regular readers of this missive will know, probably my favourite of the many fabulous design houses is Designers Guild. They never fail to produce innovative, exciting and totally unique collections of fabric and wallpapers. Mind you, their founder and continuing fount of inspiration Tricia Guild OBE has had quite a bit of practice. To celebrate her 50 years in the business, last year The Fashion and Textile Museum in South East London presented the exhibition “Out of the Blue”. Running from 14th February until it had to be untimely cut short, it unravelled Tricia Guild’s unique and creative approach, focusing on her inspiration, her intuitive design methodology, and the techniques, processes and materials used.
The 2021 spring collection, entitled Minakari, certainly doesn’t disappoint. It is a cornucopia, infused with a rich, intricate exoticism that celebrates the decorative arts of India. A simply beautiful collection of decorative fabrics and wallpapers, many of which evoke fond memories of one of Designers Guild’s loveliest collections Kusumam, originally launched in 1993 as part of their Indian Summer offering, but now brought bang up to date.
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Lustrous prints, embroideries, silks and velvets, wallpapers and panels, as well as complex cut velvets and epingles, pay homage to ancient artisanal techniques, but are completely reinvented, bringing together a contemporary style with high quality performance. Dazzling colours of cobalt, emerald, ruby and sapphire are tempered with softer, neutral shades of cinnamon, rosewood and dove grey. The collection comprises 4 books, 3 of which are designed to work together in Tricia’s unique and inimitable style – which I’ve always said looks like you’ve just casually thrown together several different patterns, designs and textures which ought not to work, but are simply stunning (by the way, if you try that with ANY other manufacturer’s products you’ll pretty soon see that not only does it not work, but what a genius Tricia is !!!).
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