| Abstrakt: |
BACK in 1970, Tricia Guild, pictured, then a young interior designer, was frustrated at the lack of exciting textiles on the market and so created her own small collection, based on Indian hand-blocked prints. Two years later, she opened a shop on the King's Road, selling fabrics, ceramics and furniture in bold, dynamic colour and pattern that has become the Designers Guild signature. Now the 80 showrooms worldwide are joined by a third opened this month in Paris, and the company, offering a choice of more than 12,000 fabrics and 3,000 wallpapers, produces everything from sofas, paints, tableware and bed linen to rugs, stationery and room fragrance. In 2008 Tricia Guild was awarded an OBE for services to interior design. This autumn, Designers Guild, which has a turnover in excess of £50 million, will launch 14 new collections of textiles and wallpapers in more than 80 markets around the world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
