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for instance, we worked with engravers and separators who hand-separated each colour. Sam’s drawing in digital layers has been created in the same language yet it’s a much easier translation.” While Zoffany’s Kensington Walk is a snapshot of life in
the London borough (references include its metropolitan inhabitants, leafy parks and art
connections), at
Cole & Son the spotlight this season is on the royal residences. Grand Masters is the second partnership with Historic Royal Palaces and, says managing director Marie Karlsson, it’s all about “honouring the skilled craftspeople who helped create this grand portfolio of homes.” Evoking a sense of place is also in evidence in Samuel & Sons’s Venezia, a collection of passementerie rooted in sketches by designer Roger Thomas (best known for his work on hospitality projects such as Wynn Resorts) while living in Venice. “I became enthralled with Venice on my very first
visit 40 years ago and I have returned nearly every year since,” says Thomas who worked closely with Samuel & Sons to turn his vision into trimmings. “I find inspiration at every turn: the edging of a vest in a Tintoretto portrait, the Lombardo foliate carved stone door frames at the Miracoli, sunset reflections on the Grand Canal... I find it impossible not to be inspired in the city that developed, it seems, simply to show off its own beauty.” Heavy silk satin borders, appliquéd
“IT FELT RELEVANT TO CREATE A COLLECTION THAT PAYS TRIBUTE TO JOIE DE VIVRE”
plush velvet and ornate embroidery have all been chosen, along with a rich colour palette, to convey the sumptuousness of the city. For Patrick Frey, creative director of Pierre Frey, it’s
Provence where he has a home that is at the heart of the Joie de Vivre and Eternel Eté collections of fabric and wallcovering. Both draw from the Pierre Frey archives, Provencal craftsmanship (‘Francine’, for example, is based on a hand-embroidered 19th-century jacket found in an antiques shop in Isle sur la Sorgue during the design team’s road trip) and time spent at the family- run Atelier de Céramique Buffile, where the potters shared both their drawings from the 1950s and a created a new exclusive pattern, ‘Calanques’. “The light and colours in Provence are sublime which is why artists of the 1950s, such as Picasso or Matisse settled there,” says Frey. “The region is full of joy and optimism and it felt more relevant than ever to create a collection that pays tribute to the sun, cheerfulness and joie de vivre.”
ABOVE: Talented artists like Sam Wilde generated an
exchange of ideas and different perspectives working with Zoffany on the Kensington Walk collection.
BELOW: The Venezia passementerie collection from Samuel & Sons is an interpretations of designer Roger Thomas’s
sketches created while living in Venice, depicting details that inspired him while wandering through the churches, palaces, galleries and exhibitions
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