"Clothes make the man". So said American humorist and author Mark Twain. His famous quote was a comment on power. "Naked people", he concluded, "have little or no influence on society". In the hundred plus years since Twain's observation, considerably less of our...
"Victory in Europe" day was celebrated 8 May 1945 to mark the end of World War II. A flow of celebratory imagery appeared on ceramics, furnishing and dress fabrics, textiles and rugs. Mermaids and dolphins; putti and roses; swags and urns. Villas and houses were...
Finding treasure in the attic doesn't just happen to punters on the Antiques Roadshow. The launch yesterday of Warner Textile Archive's Wendy Bray wallpaper collection (nine designs) at the Fine Cell Work pop-up shop in Mayfair, London, was the result of a rummage...
Today's blog post is a taster. Embarrassment of riches may mean an overabundance of a good thing, but when your scribe is presented with the exquisite contemporary rug collections of German company Jan Kath, the more accurate description is a cornucopia - a horn of...
Last night was the opening reception for Fine Cell Work's pop-up shop at 5 Grosvenor Street in Mayfair, central London. Warner Textile Archive join Fine Cell Work in the shop with their latest wallpaper releases including "Aquitaine" which is papered on one wall of...
The Autumn issue of COVER will be out next week. Some of the highlights featured in the issue will be a preview to the London Design Festival, including an interview with rug designer Helen Yardley and an in-depth look at Celia Birtwell's new fabric designs that she...
The new issue of COVER is out now with extensive coverage of the Milan Design Week plus Red Spruce, Niba, We Make Carpets, Hakimian fabrics, GAN Rugs, Lapchi's André Arbus collection, Kips Bay, tie-dye and modular rug trends and much much more!
The new issue of COVER will be out shortly! The Summer 2011 edition will include an extensive article on the best rugs and textiles that showed at April's Milan Design Week, from trend forecaster Li Edelkoort's 'Talking Textiles' exhibition and Nodus's new designs to...
The amazing new issue of COVER is out now! The Winter 2010 edition features rugs by fashion designers Alexander McQueen, Sonia Rykiel and Jean Paul Gaultier plus YBA rugs at Pallant House, Chevalier édition, Tamarian and the fabulous Stamp rugs. Textiles come from...