FOCUS 2010 - INTRODUCING THE NEW AUTUMN 2010 COLLECTIONS
Please come and view the new Autumn 2010 collections from OSBORNE & LITTLE and NINA CAMPBELL at the Osborne & Little showroom, 304 Kings Road, London SW3.
Trade preview days are Sunday 26, Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 September 2010
Public day is Wednesday 28 September 2010
Open from 10am until 6pm
A courtesy transport service will be running between Chelsea Harbour and participating showrooms on the Kings Road for the duration of Focus.
HEAL'S REDISCOVERS
SARISKAR WALLPAPERS BY HENRY WILSON
OSBORNE & LITTLE has commissioned the celebrated
photographer, artist and Indian expert to design a collection of wallpapers,
SARISKAR
Henry Wilson’s new SARISKAR
collection of wallpapers for Osborne & Little distils the colours and
patterns of historic India for today’s mood. For some five centuries of India’s
relationship with the West, the imagery of the subcontinent has been a source
of colour and movement through the classic paisleys, chintzes, block prints and
‘Tree of Life’ patterns. Indeed, decoration and surface ornamentation are
hard-wired into the Indian design psyche – they are omnipresent in India,
whether on the street, on its exquisite archaeological monuments or in its
world-famous forts and royal palaces. ‘Such is the rich combination of wall and
architectural detail and soaring architecture, it can be overwhelming, much of
the fine detail easily overlooked among the kaleidoscope of pattern and colour.
It is these frequently missed decorative details that I have drawn upon for my
designs.’
Henry Wilson has been a
regular visitor to India for more than 30 years, travelling throughout the
whole country as he explored its culture and photographed its life. He has
especially taken time to discover the many facets of Rajasthan and Gujarat (as
the names of the patterns in the collection would suggest). Through intimate
knowledge of these aspects of historic India, he has become passionate about
the wealth of visual stimulation to be found there, and now has sensitively
adapted and refined predominantly the floral themes of this rich tradition for
today’s world. At a time when India is so much in the ascendant, and Western
interest has been reawakened in India’s vibrant creative culture, the Sariskar
collection brings together in a unique way the historic and the exotic with the
contemporary.
