Thornback & Peel with Winter's Moon for The London Design Festival

As part of the London Design Festival, Winter's Moon were invited by Thornback & Peel to show a range of vintage inspired homewares and mid-century furniture upholstered with their hand-printed fabrics.

We are really excited by this collaboration and more information about other events in the area can be found on The London Design Festival website.

7 Rugby Street Bloomsbury London WC1N 3QT

Saturday 14th - Sunday 22nd September 2013

PRIVATE VIEW: Wednesday 18th September

EXHIBITION: Monday - Friday 11am - 7pm Saturday 11am - 6pm Sunday 12am -5pm

Studio Sale May 10th - 12th with Extra Special Guests!

Hopefully the info above says it all, I am really excited to be sharing the studio for this event & you can find out more about Barbara, Joel & their work here: www.joelschanginglandscapes.blogspot.co.uk

www.barbaramacfarlane.com 

This is also one of the weekends of Chichester Art Trail, so there will be other creative stuff to see in the local area if you fancy making a day of it!

It's all a matter of proportion!

We have made a few custom shades recently & the question of size & proportion always arises. I took a few images of different size shades for my customer's use & my own records but thought they may be useful to other folk too.

Please excuse the brown paper method, but it worked! The other tricky factor when making the shades up is that not all fabrics are wide enough to make up the larger sizes, so that's another hurdle to overcome sometimes. For our shades in Nasturtium the fabric panels have to be printed up the length of the fabric.

Anyway this isn't the most stimulating of blog posts but hope it may be useful to others out there & if you are interested in a bespoke shade please get in touch.

Finally this was a recent bespoke beauty....45cm diameter by 40 cm high...in case you're curious!

A little bit of before & after!

Before Christmas we started working on a vintage Parker Knoll suite for a very lovely local customer, the sofa is shown above in all its gorgeous new glory. The suite consists of a sofa & two chairs which were in a sad brown velour cover with a grim opaque stain to the legs (already removed in the image below), and a fairly saggy support structure.

We looked at lots of fabrics and eventually the customer chose heather & ginger coloured pure wool fabrics from an English Mill. Then our upholsterer got to work, sorting the support and making them beautiful.

Weirdly I bought some old interior magazines recently and found an ad for this very model in a 1961 edition of House & Garden. Amazing to think they have probably been around for over 50 years!

Pea Green!

This fresh & perfectly pea green table was a bespoke order that went out at the eleventh hour before Christmas....all in time to be used for eating sprouts on Christmas day!

Based on our perky table it was made to the customer's chosen size, to be used as a dining table with a great green Formica top. We made a subtle change to the leg design to strengthen the structure & it turned out very well indeed. Please get in touch if you would like more info on pricing for a similar piece.