From the raw plaster walls of a crumbling palazzo to the light-filled hallway of a marble-clad mansion, our recent photo shoot was a journey around the islands of the Mediterranean. Mixing traditional with modern, our handmade rugs and wallhangings are at home in the even most eclectic of interiors…
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The Olympic Torch blazed past our Holland Park showroom today, carried by Lakshmi Mittal, on the penultimate day of its epic 70 day tour of Great Britain.
We are ardent fans of the Torch as it was designed by our friends Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby.…
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We’ve shown you behind the scenes, and now we can show you some of the beautiful pictures we took on our photographic odyssey to a faraway desert to shoot our Studio Collection.
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A glimpse behind the scenes on our latest shoot, where Suzanne Sharp and her team explored winding streets, grand palaces and secret gardens to photograph some beautiful new rugs.
From the dilapidated grandeur of a crumbling palazzo to the magnificent proportions of a colonial mansion, each location was picked for its inherent beauty and ambience, offset by the sublime summer light.…
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Day two of the shoot, and everyone is up early to make the most of the glorious desert light.
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When the time came to find a shoot location for our new Studio Collection, Suzanne Sharp and the team were helplessly drawn back to the exotic roots of our beautiful rugs.
And so they journeyed to a distant desert for the shoot, allowing the bright colours, simple geometric patterns and soft textures of the rugs to shine against the modestly beautiful backdrop.…
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Housed in a former tie factory spazio Rossana Orlandi continues to present beautifully curated new and original design.
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We are in Milan, where the future of design takes over the old Italian city for one week every year.
Here are some of our design highlights from the 2012 Salone del Mobile.
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If you have cunningly booked a window seat and you are flying into Moscow at the beginning of December, you can be fairly sure you’re going to see vast tracts of desolate forest heaving with the whitest, cleanest snow. And, as you sit strapped to your seat praying that you’ll clear the last tree, you’ll feel uplifted, full of the joys of Santa, elves and wicked queens.…
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Back in 1990 when Christopher and Suzanne Sharp were contemplating a life as proprietors of the chicest Hotel in the Tuscan countryside, bad weather, a broken boiler, and dodgy estate agents sent them packing south to Malta to seek refuge with Suzanne’s family.…
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