Mention Lucienne around these parts and chances are we'll be thinking of Lucienne Day. That's certainly the case in this Lucienne and Company tea towel from Papa Stour, which is named after the designer.
Tag: Lucienne Day
Contemporary Days Film Screening
If you failed to make it to Chichester for the Robin and Lucienne Day Exhibition featued in these pages earlier this year all is not lost.
The exhibition is currently to be found in Ealing, at the Pitzhanger Manor Museum, where it will remain until the 4th of September. As part of the exhibition there will also be a screening of the film, Contemporary Days: The Designs of Lucienne and Robin Day, which traces the careers of the influential husband and wife designers from the 1930's through to the present.
The screening takes place on Thursday August 25th at 7.30pm – it's free to attend; simply call 020 8567 1227 to book your place.
Virago Modern Classic hardback collection
Cast your mind back a few years, and you may remember the Virago modern classic range: hardback titles, decorated with fantastic patterns from the likes of Cath Kidston and Orla Kiely. Well, that formula was obviously so successful, they've done it again, this time giving the deluxe treatment to five further titles.
Books are married to designers of a suitable style or era. Elaine Dundy's 1958 The Dud Avocado is decorated by a distinctive Lucienne Day pattern, while Elizabeth Jenkin's The Tortoise and the Hare is paired with a Florence Broadhurst design. Contemporary designers who work in a retro style are also included: the other covers are decorated by Angie Lewin, Eley Kishimoto and Neisha Crosland.
Beautiful by themselves, or on their own, the books are priced at £13 each.
Find out more online
50s-style printed scarves from Tate
New in at the Tate Museum shop are these 50s-style printed scarves.
They've been produced to accompany the current Miro exhibition at Tate Modern. Miro's art influenced the designs of Lucienne Day, amongst many others, so it's hardly surprising that these scarves nod towards her work. Made from 100% linen, they are decorated with a pattern that uses the sketchy, skeletal forms so associated with 50s designs.
Available in three colours, the scarves cost £45 each.
Buy them online
Midcentury-style Dinky sofa and Dinky armchair in Sanderson Festival fabric at Heal’s
A two for one feature for Heal’s designs with both the Dinky sofa and Dinky armchair in Sanderson Festival fabric being very stylish midcentury-style gems.
Both are exclusives to Heal’s, the amrchair above described as being ‘Dinky by name and by nature’, with a small footprint, small foam seat and high back, with those angled wooden legs in either a natural or dark stain. Incidentally, it’s also available in Heal’s reinterpretation of Lucienne Day’s Calyx and a plain citrus fabric too. If you want one of these UK-made armchairs, they’re available online from £1,170. It’s not the only item in the range though.
Lucienne Day Panama rug from John Lewis
We recently showed you the Lucienne Day bed linen for Heal's, now John Lewis is also offering you the opportunity to purchase some of the textile designer's style with this Lucienne Day Panama rug.
Lucienne Day had a long-running relationship with John Lewis as, from 1962 to 1987, she and her husband Robin Day were employed by the store as design consultants on a new house style and interiors for their stores. The rug, exclusive to John Lewis, reflects Day's interest in abstract design and has a strikingly modern look, although perhaps has a much more muted colour scheme than you'd normally associate with her designs.
Each rug is a hand-woven wool and cotton mix and costs £295.
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