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SPOTLIGHT ON… Both Useful & Beautiful
After struggling to find just the right finishing touches to complete home and hotel projects over the past 15 years, interior designer Nicola Harding has designed and launched NiX, her own retail brand, with lighting, furniture, textiles and upholstery collections, plus more to come. “Our aim with NiX is to help existing clients and new customers to source elegant, accessibly priced pieces that provide the perfect solution for their projects,” she explains. Nicola describes lighting as “the unsung hero of homemaking”, and adds that “playing with lighting is the most effective way to alter the feel of a place”. Each piece is made in Europe by skilled craftspeople using traditional techniques and responsibly sourced materials. nicolaharding.com
Exquisitely Fashioned Farrow & Ball’s latest collaboration
Skilled fashion designers create the perfect capsule wardrobe enabling every piece to be mixed and matched in endless combinations creating myriad different looks to express individual style. So New York fashion designer Christopher John Rogers was the perfect choice to collaborate with Farrow & Ball on a capsule collection of pattern and colour for the home Entitled Carte Blanche, this versatile new range features 12 paint colours – eight statement shades and four neutrals – and three playful wallpapers printed with Farrow & Ball paint, and all handcrafted in Dorset.
From vivid blue to verdant green and cheerful pink to foundational neutrals, inspiration came from cherished memories of food and family. Christopher says: “Colours – and the feelings that I get from them – are always my starting point when working, so when Farrow & Ball reached out regarding the collaboration, it seemed like the most natural fit. With their emphasis on quality and longevity, and my emphasis on artful, declarative design, I think this partnership has created something incredibly exciting by mining the space between both feelings.”
Farrow & Ball creative director Charlotte Cosby says: “I’ve been a fan of Christopher for years and I’m obsessed with his use of colour; he treats it so tenderly and the result can be a beautifully tempered explosion or a slick, confident splash. Craft and attention to detail are intrinsic to both of our processes, so I always knew this collaboration was going to be something special.” farrow-ball.com
Nostalgic By Nature Designer & artist Jess Wheeler
Using stone, plaster, bronze and brass, designer and artist Jess Wheeler handcrafts beautiful creations inspired by the Welsh landscape su
