{"id":40505,"date":"2023-05-22T14:22:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T13:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcch.co.uk\/?p=40505"},"modified":"2023-05-22T14:22:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T13:22:05","slug":"ardmore-thanda-fabrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcch.co.uk\/design-news\/ardmore-thanda-fabrics\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Love of the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ardmore<\/p>\n

South African brand Ardmore (available from Colony by Casa Luiza) has a recognisable style all of its own. Starting life as a ceramics company, it has harnessed the skills of its in-house artists to create fabrics and wallcoverings, too. Several collections later, the theme remains the same: the abundant nature of Ardmore’s native country, expressed in beautiful detail across often complex designs.<\/p>\n

Thanda<\/em>, its latest launch of fabrics, has a special place in the heart of Ardmore’s founder, F\u00e9e Halsted. It is named after the game lodge where Halstead’s son Jonathan married his fianc\u00e9e Kate (the name “Thanda” means “love” in isiZulu) and celebrates the joy of their union during difficult times in the depths of the pandemic in 2020. It has taken a couple of years to come to fruition, but the results are as charming as any of Ardmore’s collections, perhaps more so since they are charged with sentiment and meaning from the long weekend of nuptials.<\/p>\n\n\t\t