Categories / Design and Interiors

Yahgie fabrics and cushions featuring 20th-century design classics

Yahgie

There have been hundreds of prints, fabrics, cushions and other artworks featured on this site that draw their inspiration from instantly recognisable mid-century design classics. Yahgie's fabric and cushion collection join that long list, but they do so in style. 

The cushion shown on the left is the thing for any chair addicts. The design features sketchy illustrations of the chairs, shown with their names underneath, enabling you to swot up on your design history as you recline. This pattern is also available as a cotton fabric, as is the Pop Art style pattern on the right that uses the distinctive shape of Henningsen's Artichoke lamp. 

If these designs appeal, their website is well worth an explore as Yahgie also sell wall art and tableware. 

The cushion costs $49.99 while the fabric costs $89.99 for a yard (approximately 91cm). 

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Categories / Design and Interiors

Very Sanderson exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum

Very Sanderson exhibition

2010 is the 150th anniversary of Sanderson and an appropriate time for the Very Sanderson retrospective exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. 

The exhibition looks at their wallpaper and textile designs from 1860 up to the present day and so acts as a visual reminder of tastes in interior decoration, from Arts and Crafts, through to Pop and the current retro revival. The company has worked with a massive array of talented designers over its history and the exhibition includes work by people like Christopher Dresser, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Lucienne Day, Zandra Rhodes and Pat Albeck. The recent success of Fiona Howard's Dandelion Clocks design is also included in the exhibition. The array of patterns in the show are sure to inspire a spot of interior redecoration in your own home.

The exhibition is on until 13 June 2010 and entrance is £6.50 for adults. 

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Angie Lewin Hedgerow fabric new at St Jude’s

Hedgerow Lewin

New to St Jude's gallery is this Hedgerow fabric designed by Angie Lewin. We've featured a umber of St Jude's fabrics before such as Alice Stevenson's Treehouse design or their Kensal Rise collaboration with Old Town. Like those two designs, Hedgerow has a very British retro aesthetic, using a 1950s-style depiction of natural forms.  

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Categories / Art and Photography

Clare Nicolson ‘minis’ wall hangings

Nicolson wallhangings

Following on from yesterday's Ihmemaa print, here's some more textile art for your walls. We've featured many of Clare Nicolson's textile's designs before: her charming digitally printed fabric draw on a mixture of vintage fabrics and paper to create brand new patterns. She's recently expanded her range to include the 'minis' wall hangings

It's a range of five designs, presumably named because – at 21 x 29cm – they are much smaller than her 'birdie' wall hangings. The two hangings shown both have clear retro style: the design on the left is called Vincent and features one of her trademark birds, the one on the right has been titled folklore in a self-explanatory manner. Both come stretched over a wooden frame for hanging and cost £40 each. 

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