Niels Moller at Two Columbia Road

I love the elegance and poise of these Niels Moller dining chairs which are upholstered here with the B side of our Totley fabric.

They are from Two Columbia Road - a beautiful mid century furniture showroom with a very well curated selection.

I love the deep glossy wood and the sinuous curves.

Emmanuelle Hegaret

One of the things I find most exciting about our upholstery fabric is seeing how it ends up being used.

The beautiful chair here was upholstered in our Wrekin fabric by Emmanuelle Hegaret at her atelier in Brittany.

I love the way that the Wrekin pattern wraps around the curved back - and using the reverse face on the back of the chair is a really nice touch.

I also really like the way that Emmanuelle has styled this shoot - you can see more of her work here.

Finishing school

Finishing is anything that is done to the fabric once it is woven. When the fabric comes off the loom it is called 'loomstate' or sometimes 'grey cloth' and it is usually quite stiff and taught. As soon as it is washed or steamed the fibres start to relax and it starts to feel like proper cloth.

A few weeks ago we went up to visit one of the Finishers that we use. They do anything and everything from washing and scouring to pressing and steaming, coating and cropping to milling and dying. 

I loved the 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' feel of all the machines, with all their buttons and levers. Lots of fantastic sounds and smells as well as the bolts of fabric run through all the processes. 

And I also loved the gigantic scale of everything - this is a huge vat of liquid soap which is kept warm at all times to keep the soap from solidifying. A really fascinating day out!

'An Ascetic Aesthetic'

We were very pleased to have our 2/8ths Storm Blue blanket included in the April issue of Wallpaper. The feature is called 'The Lovely Bones' with this wonderful line of text...

'Under strict orders to create an ascetic aesthetic we've reduced our furnishings to the bare necessities'

Styling by Amy Heffernan

Photography by Steve Harries

Sandwich Doorsteps

We were in Kent at the weekend, pottering around Sandwich and Deal, and came across some beautiful doorstep paving patterns. This one was in Sandwich. I love the movement and looseness in the pattern of flowers. The oval flower head shapes remind me of a painting by Duncan Grant of paper flowers on a mantlepiece. 

Even the plain white patterns have a lovely rhythm to them. If you look closely at the one below you see that the pattern turns direction all the time. 

But my absolute favourite was the one below in the doorway of a hardware shop in Deal. A dustpan in mosaic - so perfect.

When we open our first shop I will commission a mosaic doorstep with a weaving shuttle on it.

An eye for colour

 I love the unexpected colour mix in this shoot styled by Poppy Norton...

... the acid yellows in the Easterly below work really well with the deeper mustard tones in the cushion and all the soft greys and browns...

... and I would not think to try and indigo blue with pink and accents of green, orange and mustard but the mix really works in the combination below - it feels lovely and spring-like.

It is really exciting when a shoot makes me look again at our pieces with fresh eyes.

Walead Beshty

Popped into the Curve Gallery at the Barbican this weekend and just caught the last day of the Walead Beshty cyanotyoe installation. It was made over the course of year and the installation follows this chronological movement from at his studio in LA at one end through to his residency in the Barbican at the other.

Lots of the objects are incredibly familiar whilst others are much more enigmatic. And the surfaces he uses adds another layre. I liked the instances where other found colour leaked through the indigo like the rusty orange above.

I also really liked the variety of the scale of the objects he captures - this step-ladder particularly caught my eye.

Perhaps the most striking thing about the show though is the scale of the installation as a whole - there are over 12,000 prints in the piece. Like some gigantic indigo denim patchwork.