Pretty floral fabrics and wallpapers that appear to have faded in the summer sunshine have a vintage quality
Fabric
1 Albertine fabric, £69.90 per m, Linwood 2 Chiya Lotus fabric, £76 per m, Romo 3 Rosemoore Ivory linen fabric, £65 per m, Warner House 4 Dianthus Raspberry Vintage linen, £154 per m, The Fabric Collective
Wallpaper
5 Coromandel in Sherbet, £86.32 per m, Lewis & Wood 6 Olivia Botanical Green/Orange, £119 per roll, Sanderson 7 Chintz Lustre Quartz Grey, £209 per roll, Zoffany 8 Lilac Blush & Dove on Silver Birch wallpaper, £156 per roll, Cole & Son
Bloom TIME
Favour blush tones and blowsy florals as accents in your home and garden
1 Bloom blue and green floral garden parasol, £195, Oliver Bonas 2 Madeira rug, from £78, Anthropologie 3 Personalised couple ampersand print, £35.99, Getting Personal 4 Luggage stand, £468, Sibyl Colefax and John Fowler 5 Trapped floral picture frame, £8, Habitat 6 Set of four floral mugs, £12.50, Marks & Spencer 7 Sweet pea carafe and tumbler, £88, Petra Palumbo 8 Fern Green Rosemore cushion, £50, Laura Ashley at Next 9 Windermere chair, £1,235, Barker & Stonehouse 10 Country Floral Print filled hamper for two, £65, John Lewis 11 Metal Palm Springs daybed, £POA, Raj Tent Club 12 Floral chest of drawers, £229, Homesense
Sister Act
Celebrated interior designer Sophie Ashby is known for her projects that incorporate eclectic artworks and fabrics. Her product line, Sister by Studio Ashby, now offers her own fabric designs, The Jocasta Collection. The fabrics themselves are manufactured by Yarn Collective and are inspired by crafts, flowers, foliage, and ancient traditions from across the globe. From £149 per m.
studioashby.com/sister
What to Buy Now TEXTILE DESIGNS BY CFA VOYSEY
John Mackie, Lyon & Turnbull
One of the most influential Arts & Crafts designers and architects, Charles Francis Annesley (aka CFA) Voysey, is renowned for his fabric and carpet designs. Voysey paid meticulous attention to detail, and his fabric designs were produced on standard graph paper in vivid colours. They served as important interpretation tools for the weaving technicians who brought his ideas to life. To ensure the end products remained true to his original intent, Voysey often made annotations with instructions concerning the repeat and colouring. While his late 19th/early 20th-century carpet designs for Tomkinson & Adam of Kidderminster can make five figures – we recently sold one at our Design Since 1860 sale for £12,600 – panels of his furnishing fabrics are much more affordable.
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