Pierre Frey 75th birthday
For 75 years family firm Pierre Frey has maintained its independence and inventiveness in textiles. The company, which celebrates is 75th anniversary this year, is known for its unlimited palette, joyous colours, and artistic patterns. In that respect nothing has changed in the three generations since the firm was established on January 1 1935. Furnishing fabric is not a fickle fashion. People choose a fabric because they like it and want to live with it for years. It is not a caprice; it is a choice and the reflection of a culture. That is why Pierre Frey looks at the past, the present, and the future, drawing inspiration from everything, Indian and Ottoman, silk or cotton damask, cloth woven with metal threads.
Pierre Frey transforms Toile de Jouy into ‘Voyage en Chine’, lets us dream in mountain pastures with ‘Alpage’, and shows us mouth-watering treats in ‘Gourmandise’. Inventing new materials, plain colours, matt and glossy contrasts, embroidery, this is a voyage without beginning or end, through five senses and five continents, a fabulous time trip in search of treasures to shape the future.
Sanderson 150th birthday
Sanderson celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. To mark this significant occasion, the Sanderson studio introduces vintage fabrics and wallpapers, a revival of its most vibrant and varied prints, embroideries, and wallpapers to date. Over the last 15 decades this quintessentially English company has been at the forefront of every significant movement in European decorative arts. The designs included in the Vintage collection date from the late 19th century through to the 1980s and each reflects the style of the era in which it was first launched.
Over the years, Sanderson has kept record samples of every design produced or marketed by the company since it was formed by Arthur Sanderson in 1860. Today the Sanderson archive is one of the most important collections of historic textiles and wallpapers in the world. To encapsulate such a wide time span within a relatively small range of designs proved a challenging task for the Sanderson studio. After much deliberation, nine printed fabrics, two embroideries, and nine wallpapers were settled on, offering a glimpse of the treasures in Sanderson’s unparalleled archive. The final collection includes styles from the Arts & Crafts movement, jazzy Modernes, fifties’ Festival designs and Pop patterns. Sanderson has combined the new with the old and employed contemporary printing techniques to enhance each design, bringing a richness and originality to these historical textiles.
The resulting collection showcases the creativity and diversity of a remarkable design company over the past 150 years.
