NEW WALLPAPERS & LINENS
My new design, ‘Circe’s Garden’, illustrates the romance and whimsy of the British garden. Statues of Apollo and a bacchante stand waist deep in a bed of ferns and flowers in the shade of a giant gunnera, surrounded by a menagerie of mythical creatures.
Inspired specifically by early C20th society hostess and plant enthusiast Lady Edith Londonderry and the gardens she created at her country estate, Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland.
FABRICS
“I grew up in one of England’s oldest boarding schools in Winchester where my father was a don. The school housed its staff and, for the first ten years of my life we lived in a yellow Georgian house, that had been Jane Austen’s final home, on College Street.
My mother was a music teacher but also had a strong passion for art history, literature, drawing, and sewing. She made a lot of our clothes, soft furnishings and lampshades and filled the house with pattern and colour. Most of all she encouraged my sister and me to express ourselves creatively.
I have her to thank for my love of illustration and decoration and now to see it not only as a means of expression but to create something lasting, that can transform a space, bring life and colour to an interior and hopefully pass on a bit of the joy in design that she taught me to value.”
PRODUCTION
Fanny’s work has its roots firmly in historic British craftsmanship and design so we produce the fabrics and wallpapers using traditional methods and natural fabric and paper grounds. All but two of our fabrics are screen printed in south London on European linen and our wallpapers are surface and rotary printed on paper in Leicestershire in the Midlands.
Kalami and Corfu are digitally printed to retain the watercolour brush strokes from the original design.