Design Centre Stories

Tag: Wallcoverings

Design Direction: Picture Book

A celebration of beautiful illustrations – some from life, and others more abstract – featuring playful animals, birds and flowers

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Design Direction: On Parade

The stripe strides out, with brass accents for a smart finishing touch.

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A green themed moodboard showing products from Design Centre Chelsea Harbour's showrooms

Design Direction: Verdure

Verdure celebrates all shades of green, from pretty and fresh palm house motifs to scenic woodland landscapes.

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Design Directions SS25: Fruit Salad

Design Direction: Fruit Salad

Discover a joyful palette of tutti-frutti colours, with a design a direction that's all about pattern, colour and texture, with a contemporary take on retro.

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Archivist Design Direction SS25

Design Direction: Archivist

Delve into a history for inspiration, with a rich palette and a celebration of artisanship.

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SS25 design direction moodboard: Sculpt

Design Direction: Sculpt

Explore a strong take on a neutral palette, with softened curves and contrasting textures

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Sims Hilditch apartment at The OWO

A Harmonious Heritage

Sims-Hilditch has brought a slice of the countryside to SW1 for a recent project, one of the private residences at landmark development The OWO – with the Design Centre's showrooms a go-to for sourcing.

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Pure Imagination

Villa Nova's Picturebook II collection for children (young and old) delivers a whole new world of fantasies to explore.

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The Srinagar Map collection by Lewis & Wood

Small World

An astonishingly detailed 19th-century map of the Kashmiri capital has been reinterpreted as fabrics and wallcoverings by Lewis & Wood

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'Courbes' wallcovering, Elitis

The Latest Twist

Véronique de Soultrait's 'rope marquetry' inspires a new collection of embossed wallcoverings for Elitis.

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Meet the Showroom: Zuber

The world's oldest block-printed wallpaper manufacturer has a new showroom at the Design Centre. Its director, Sébastien Paillard, talks through more than 200 years of design history

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'Suzani Carnation' wallcovering, Iksel Decorative Arts

A Cultural Journey

Take a journey with Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour and discover some of the products and designs from the showrooms that owe a debt to the Silk Road.

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‘La Perle’ wallcovering, Arte

A Couture Crossover

Couture fashion produces some of the finest examples of craftsmanship in the world – so it’s no surprise that Arte chose these rare skills to influence its latest collection

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From Waste to Wall Tile

Gallotti&Radice has embraced a new category of products with 'Pleiadi', a relief tile system made from cotton linter (the short downy hairs of the cotton seed) and clay.

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Enchanted Landscapes

Kit Kemp's collaboration with Andrew Martin has been extended, with two new whimsical wallcoverings, plus more colourways for a well-loved classic.

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Folklore and Artistry

Steeped in folklore and storytelling – and bold pattern and colour – Minnie Kemp's wallcoverings for MindTheGap represent the first time that the Transylvanian brand has worked with an external creative to realise a collection.

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Paper Trail

Weitzner’s Forest Bathing collection (available from Altfield) includes these delicately beautiful paper tiles for the wall, a marriage of artisanal technique and innovation.

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Hot Topic

Take a journey through some of the world's driest – and most spectacular – climates with Arte's Desert Dreams wallcovering collections

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Larger Than Life

Devon, Anna French's latest fabric and wallcovering collection, features traditional English country-house motifs made bolder by daring scale and colour.

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You Saw It Here First…

WOW!house 2023's rooms revealed some common design threads that act a barometer of what's coming next in interiors. From the colour of the moment to the art of trompe l'oeil and some fantastic flooring, here are just a few ideas to take away.

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'Harbor Hemp' wallcovering, Phillip Jeffries

Hit the Beach

Phillip Jeffries' 'Harbour Hemp' wallcovering was inspired by bleached boardwalks, and is part of a wider collection for summer that evokes days beside the sea and sand.

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Holland & Sherry Carnaby fabrics, wallpapers and rugs

Sartorial Style

Holland & Sherry often taps into its tailoring roots for its collections, and Carnaby draws on the vibrant cultural explosion of 1960s London.

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Jennifer Shorto Sugar Magnolia fabric and wallcovering

Keep It Surreal

Jennifer Shorto's wallcoverings and textiles defy easy categorisation when it comes to style, reflecting the magpie eye of Shorto herself.

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Tour de Force

Pierre Frey has launched a collection inspired by archive drawings and canvases from the 1920s by Elise Djo-Bourgeois, who is being rediscovered as one of the great female French designers of the early 20th century.

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Black-Edition---Muoto-Collection

Tactility First

Texture meets technical mastery in Black Edition's latest releases for Romo, with bouclé, velvet, chenille and silk creating a sense of three dimensionality in fabrics, and grasscloth and raffia delivering a sophisticated look for wallcoverings.

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Stella-McCartney-x-Cole-Son_Fungi-Forest wallcovering

Fungi Future

Fashion designer Stella McCartney's interiors debut is a fungi-themed wallcovering for Cole & Son that has ambitions to push the sustainability agenda.

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The New Language of Workplace Design

Interior design studio Kitesgrove transforms a listed Mayfair townhouse into an enviable office with a distinctly domestic feel, sourcing from many of the Design Centre's showrooms to fulfil its creative brief.

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Melting Pot

Brunschwig & Fils' latest collection is inspired by Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, a sumptuous meeting point of old and new, and east and west.

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The Ultimate Resource

Ralph Lauren Home has opened its first stand-alone showroom, a 250 sqm space that offers the most comprehensive presentation of the brand’s home collections in Europe.

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The Morris & Co Garden at RHS Chelsea 2022

Crafted, and Planted

William Morris was inspired by native flora and fauna for the fabrics and wallcoverings he produced for Morris & Co. Now, a garden at RHS Chelsea uses his original designs to create a gold-medal-winning contemporary garden.

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