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ELEY KISHIMOTO X KIRKBY DESIGN For design duo Eley Kishimoto, a collaboration with interiors textile brand Kirkby Design has been on the cards ever since the two companies met in 2014. Fast forward to now and the bold prints that Mark Eley and Wakako Kishimoto are best known for have been developed into a range of woven textiles (a first for the pair), wallcoverings and cushions. ‘We wanted to make this different to the flat colour prints that we normally produce,’ explains Eley of the collection, which is launching at the Salone del Mobile design fair in Milan in April. ‘We asked Jordan Mould, the creative director at Kirkby Design, to push the technical boundaries of items that we can’t make in house: foils, jacquards, flocked wallpaper and cut velvets.’

All of the designs, apart from one – the ‘Peg Art Roses’ wallpaper (above, on screen), which is a re-worked archive print – are completely new. At first glance, some might seem reminiscent of the 1960s and 70s but for Eley, the collection is about looking forward rather than back. ‘ We have used luxe silk-mix wools and high-pile velvets, so there’s perhaps an association of 1970s opulence with that. There’s always nostalgia in our work, but the designs themselves are contemporary.’ Indeed they are: pictured above is the opulent ‘Loopy Link’ as wallpaper and fabric; the bright crimson ‘Origami Rockets’; the Op-art esque ‘Electro Maze’; and a fabulous chair upholstered in powder pink ‘Domino Pyramid’. Fabric from £75 per metre, wallpaper £95 per roll (kirkbydesign.com).