THE JOURNAL


INVEST IN THE BEST


Every season, design houses are raising the bar with their creative vision. Emma Loves finds out what drives them to invest in a new collection


Developing new designs from the initial spark of an idea through production and launch takes an immense amount of time, energy and effort. For companies that are known for their extensive archives, it is often about wanting to continue a legacy to ensure that those original designs still feel right for interiors today. “What we try to do is look at our existing ranges and enhance them with newness. We have the most amazing archive with around 160,000 documents so everything we design is rooted in that,” says Claire Vallis, creative director of the Sanderson Design Group.


This is writ large in Sanderson 160, a collection of


printed wallcoverings and fabrics released to mark 160 years of iconic British design. “There’s such a wonderful nostalgia to these patterns, which we wanted to celebrate with new colour innovations that make people look again at Sanderson and discover how contemporary it can be,” she continues. Perhaps, it’s partly down to the unprecedented events of the last two years, but never has finding familiarity in uplifting archive prints seemed so relevant. As interior designer Henry Prideaux said at one of the Design Centre’s Conversation in Design


ABOVE: Pierre Frey’s Litho collection is the work of Guillaume Delvigne, one of a handful of external designers that the French brand is working with to expand its reach into furniture design. ‘Litho’ means ‘stone’ in Greek, and Delvigne was inspired by the idea of a primitive landscape, strewn with shapes that are different, but that naturally relate to one another


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