This month's product news highlights how key themes and sentiments from 2020 continue to form design inspirations for the latest interior product ranges, promoting wellbeing and a deeper consideration for nature. Featuring rainbow themed radiators and nature inspired luxury surfaces, as well as newly emerging trends in upholstery and the latest designer collaboration in wallpapers.
Siminetti launches its nature inspired Seasons Collection
Siminetti announces its latest collection in collaboration with renowned British Designer Chrisanna London. The Seasons Collection features a series of twelve stunning designs inspired by nature. Consistent in their quest to create inspirational luxury surfaces that are crafted with passion, viewed with awe and are kind to the planet, the collection transforms the tier of decorative surfaces, testing the boundaries of what is possible with nature’s most stunning material; Mother of Pearl.
The collection is divided into seasons. Each highlight how the natural qualities of mother of pearl could harmoniously tie with a selection of the most stunning organic shapes and patterns found in nature. Distinctive markings reoccur, creating symmetries, stripes, swirls, bubbles and waves with cycles, repetition and pattern to give a sense of order and calm – they help to harmonise our understanding of the world around us.
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Inspired by the rainbows of lockdown, Bisque injects colour into modern radiator design
After a difficult 2020, rainbows became a symbol of thanks and optimism. As we move into a 2021 lockdown, a continued thirst for joy will cement a desire for more colourful designs in the home. Bisque is no stranger to experimenting with colour, which is why its radiators are design pieces, as well as functional items. Bisque boasts a bespoke colour-match service with over 2000 colours, from periwinkle to plum, its radiators can help to introduce a unique pop of bold colour to any space!
The return of tradition with Linwood's kilim-inspired collection
Traditional, Persian-style woven tapestry is having a resurgence. Found in Soho Farmhouse and the home of influencer, Millie Mackintosh, Linwood's kilim inspired collection features five designs which are inspired by rugs the design team discovered in Turkish and Moroccan bazaars. Surprisingly soft to the touch, this range is mainly for upholstery, but more adventurous customers might choose to make heavy curtains or indulgent floor cushions. Offered in a selection of timeless colours, alongside more contemporary tones for alluring modernity.
Graham & Brown announce its latest designer collaboration with new capsule wallpaper collection
Graham & Brown has teamed up with Sacha Walckhoff, Designer & Christian Lacroix Creative Director, to produce Paper Games; a playful and colourful capsule wallpaper collection.
Paper Games celebrates the art of paper cutting, a traditional craft dating back to the origins of paper creation in China, where it was used to form stencils to decorate fine silks. Sacha Walckhoff and Graham & Brown have adopted this technique to produce a graphic wallpaper collection, featuring joyful and contemporary flowers and trees. The striking colour palette stretches from saffron yellow to sky blue; a monochromatic palette of black and white is used to define the graphic patterns echoing Walckhoff's recognisable stylistic approach.
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An excellent example of paint being a more adaptable choice than wallpaper occurred when the owner of a Grade I listed Mayfair Mansion wanted a very elegant, expensive, handmade wallpaper applied in the 44 foot stairwell, which had sweeping vertiginous curves.
Applying wallpaper would have proved to be an impossible task, due to the curves and the irregular surface. In the skilled hands of SBID accredited Glaze artists a pattern was created, inspired by paper found in the Victoria and Albert archive. The result was simply stunning. All the motifs, each one a 22 stage process, fit the 2,500 feet perfectly with not a join in sight.
Glaze Specialist Decoration have recently completed a fabulous project at The Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane, London. Ten highly skilled specialist decorators worked throughout the summer to bring the historic Gold Room back to its 1930’s glory.
Glaze artists recreated a beautiful summer sky using a fresh palate; this involved soft clouds, birds, and vines twisting around the gilded moon gold fretwork. The ruched curtains are in fact a trick of the eye, all painstakingly hand painted by one of their talented team. To complete the effect the cornice and pillar mouldings were decorated using moon gold leaf after a faux Verde Borgogna Lastra marble effect had been painted onto the original surfaces. The interior designer Alex Kravetz said at the end of the project: ‘Amazing work – I am very happy indeed and I hope to be working with the Glaze team again soon’.
One service that Glaze Specialist Decoration offers is historic conservation. One of their artists was responsible for recreating Queen Victoria’s hand painted Chinese silk wall paper. Needless to say this was a very unique request and they are more likely to be working on projects such as the Mayfair Mansion and the Dorchester Hotel.
As well as completing grand projects such as the Mayfair Mansion, Glaze have also had some amusing and slightly unusual requests. Recently, an artist was commissioned to disguise a bicycle shed in a stylish Westbourne Park Villa - a beautiful bamboo tree with falling leaves now disguises the bike shed, which is hidden beneath a set of stairs, creating a unique yet functional piece of art. This just goes to show that with the right product specification, all kinds of problems can be solved.
Glaze Specialist Decoration offer a first class service to Interior Designers, for both traditional and contemporary finishes as well as polished plaster.
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