AT HOME RETIREES BACK IN FASHION
like things to bring joy and happiness. Colour is so important to introduce harmony to a home.”
Pattern and colour were also the great passions of British textiles designer Celia Birtwell. But although she embraced them when creating fabrics for her partner Ossie Clark’s clothes during the Sixties and Seventies, she has taken a different approach to homewares.
“I used to get quite cross if people said, ‘oh, that dress would make a great blind’ – no it wouldn’t! So when I started doing home textiles it was a very different exercise.”
Birtwell has joined forces with Blendworth Interiors to relaunch her classic fabrics. Furniture company Multiyork has added to its range, making Birtwell’s motifs available across sofas, ottomans and chairs.
Blendworth is currently rifling through her archive for a follow up collection, and the septuagenarian shows no signs of slowing. “I like people knocking on my door,” she says. “This work is so rejuvenating.”