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Above: One of the Ume silk shades. Right: Hand-blown Japonica wall light. Below: The image that started it all in 2010.
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Far right: Many of the popular fittings can be adapted for outdoor use.
What’s next
For her latest, venture Patterson is revisiting her early work in textiles with her designs digitally printed on to silk. Images of an English garden sit comfortably on the traditional hand-made Ume lanterns. She is also working on some bone china pieces, which – the global pandemic permitting – could get their first outing at Decorex. Patterson says: “I like to keep interested. If I start to drift off and get a little bit bored it shows in the designs. There is nothing better than introducing new materials to work with or, in this case, re-visiting old materials, bringing them back into my life. It also means that I am more hands on. With the glass I don’t make the shades, but in the
past I was a maker and the new products satisfy that part of me. I am designing and making the bone china pieces myself in my own little workshop. The textiles, although I’m not printing them myself, I am drawing and painting the designs. This creates a bit of excitement, keeps that interest and I think that is reflected in the work.” Curiousa & Curiousa sells all over the world, but there is not a typical customer. “We will get somebody who just wants one pendant and they have saved up to put that one piece over their dining table. And we get people who want a 9m chandelier to hang down a four-storey stairwell. Seventy percent of our orders are through interior designers but we also sell to individuals.”
For the glass shades, there are 23 colours to choose from, eight different flex options and four metal finishes so each piece can be custom made to the client’s requirements. “Customers give us drawings of their space and ideas of the colours they like and we produce 3D visuals so they can see how it will all look,” Patterson says.
“My favourite chandelier was created
with a friend of mine. She came in, chose all the pieces and colours and we worked closely to see how they would hang. It was lovely working with a friend and she was adventurous – I loved the final piece and it is now in our range, called Tiger Lily.” After 10 years, Patterson is confident with the product – but there have been
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