Wednesday, February 10, 2010

THE BRITISH ARE COMING!!!

For some reason we are very sought after by the Brittons.
There are two British  interior designers who are fighting for our attention and we are happy to be designing and working on fabulous curtains and embroidery projects for both of them.
Timothy Goodale is a very talented British designer with breathtaking work in Paris, London, Miami Beach La Gorce Island, San Marino Island and lately in Atlanta where he resides.
His look is rich and clean and his style evolved over the years to an almost minimalist theme with historic accents.
Manuel and I have worked together in several projects for him where the Fortuny fabrics and Scalamandre silks that he selected were the base for us to make the most luxurious couture curtains and pillows.

When we first met him we went to his house to pick up rolls of fabric for a project. They were all  Fortuny fabrics. It was getting late and neither Manuel nor I haven't had dinner and were really hungry. We drove to a restaurant, parked the car and when we were about to step out I realized that we were carrying about 40 grand in fabrics in the back seat with no insurance. Oh my!
We had to drive 45 minutes to our warehouse where we unloaded the precious cargo and then to dinner. It was 10 pm and we were lucky to find that our favorite Peruvian Restaurant was still open.
Tim has the privileged eye that allows him to see a piece of land and instantly imagine the house the can build there from the ground up surrounded buy traditional gardens dotted with exotic tropical plants.
Manuel, who is an architect says that Tim has been blessed with a sense of proportion that no architectural school in the world can teach you. Tim's work has been published in prestigious international magazines and we are very proud to work for him.
Now we are embarked in the production of an exclusive line of embroidered curtains, bedding and pillows that he will represent in Atlanta where he already finished stunning houses. Will publish pictures of our embroidery projects for him soon in our Blog. In the meantime you can see the detail level in the fabrication of this Fortuny bedding we did for one of his clients.

1 comment:

  1. Beautiful fabric! Lovely blog!

    Klaire
    DSG
    MysticSilks

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