QUEEN FRUIT FOR SCHUMACHER
1st March 2021
Neisha says of the inspiration for this design: ‘ I was looking at Elizabethan embroidery and the Mangosteen fruit, but the real trigger was a late 16th century needlework fragment of flora and fauna, with insects and birds, for an English bed hanging from the Antonio Ratti collection at the Metropolitan Museum New York. What I liked about the hanging was the stocky stance of the thick stem, and the design’s outline of gold. I turned it into a sort of ‘tree of life’ climbing deco pattern, lacing the edges of the stem and petals with gold and silver in the Silver White and Lapis colourways.’ Lapis and Jade are matching colourways for both the chintz fabric and surface-printed wallpaper. View the wallpaper details here.
Neisha says of the inspiration for this design: ‘ I was looking at Elizabethan embroidery and the Mangosteen fruit, but the real trigger was a late 16th century needlework fragment of flora and fauna, with insects and birds, for an English bed hanging from the Antonio Ratti collection at the Metropolitan Museum New York. What I liked about the hanging was the stocky stance of the thick stem, and the design’s outline of gold. I turned it into a sort of ‘tree of life’ climbing deco pattern, lacing the edges of the stem and petals with gold and silver in the Silver White and Lapis colourways.’ Lapis and Jade are matching colourways for both the chintz fabric and surface-printed wallpaper. View the wallpaper details here.