Tai Ping Carpets recently launched the Chroma collection which caught my eye with painterly designs. I visited their showroom during Chelsea Design Week where a few of the rugs were on display. As always with rugs, it’s very much about texture as well as design and colour. I could feel the sumptuousness of silk & wool […]
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New designs from Parris Wakefield Additions at London Design Week
You may remember my post on Parris Wakefield last year when they launched Additions at Tent. Given the response from that, Howard & Sarah decided to take part in a trade show devoted entirely to furnishing fabrics where their prints stood out in dramatic contrast to the other companies there. The 2 new prints on velvet […]
Contemporary lighting
Maison & Objet is always a good place to see interesting lighting; my selection includes modular OLED lighting system by Blackbody, shown here hung in the form of a chandelier. It works for both large and small scale installations.Re-issued Mantis lighting from Bernard Schottlander was inspired by Alexander Calder in the 1950s. This yarn lampshade […]
Luxury glassware from Cumbria Crystal
Now I didn’t know that there was a crystal factory in Cumbria, did you? Well, Cumbria Crystal makes hand blown and hand cut full lead English crystal using traditional techniques and I met them at Maison & Objet, their first full trade show. Katy Holford, the design director, showed me some of their new as […]
Contemporary tableware by Victoria Delany
Victoria Delany was still a student when she first came to my attention. A winner of the NEWH Scholarships, her silversmithing designs impressed with their suitability for hospitality and the art of the table as we say in France. With work stocked by Seletti amongst others, she continues to develop her interest in traditional processes and […]
Landscape trend at Maison & Objet – part 2 of 2
More from Elizabeth Leriche’s trend area at Maison & Objet: Chinese tea specialist Tana Azzam’s collection of “dream stones”, with patterns found in the natural world impressed, as did the Waddensee collection of porcelain by Maarteen Kolk & Guus Kusters inspired by the tidal action of the sea. The last room housed a site-specific installation by […]