London Design Week – A View by Jane
Five days of designers meeting design, and all the supporting roles thereof, are held every spring at the Chelsea Harbour Design Centre.
Most well-known suppliers to the design world have something of a presence in or around Chelsea Harbour, and everyone works hard to put on a good show. They bring in guest exhibitors, those smaller niche enterprises that support with craft and artistic endeavour that doesn’t come by the metre.
I listened to Alidad explain his raison d’être and raison de travailler with fascination and a little envy! He breathes in the house vibes, the owner vibes, adds some great collaboration, some time and gives birth to some spectacular design schemes.
The most noticeable theme of this year was the number of room-high scenic wallpapers – we all need bigger houses (more envy). Probably the most striking was from Schumacher. This was just stunning.
Less is more
With the advent of new embroidery techniques, there are so many with ever-expanding intricacies. You should display these fabrics, not gather them up into overfull curtains. Less is very definitely more.
From Pierre Frey
From Schumacher
What else caught my eye – some wall covering made from linseed (Lincrusta), designed to have several layers of decorative paint so that it looks as if carved out of multi coloured stone and cast glass from Sterling Studios. Just amazing!
Apologies to most of you that I haven’t mentioned, but you were exhibiting to the converted. A day isn’t long, so I look for the stands I don’t know before visiting the old friends.