House Beautiful Best of British Awards

Was delighted to learn that my Heals Discovers collection won a silver award at the House Beautiful Best of British Awards last week.  Lovely news - thank you House Beautiful!

Press coverage for Heals Collection

A bit more press coverage for the Symmetree throw and cushion for the Heals Discovers collection :-)

Etc magazine, September 2011



Observer Magazine, 7th July 2011



Press coverage for the Heals Discovers collection

The Circle Line and Symmetree designs for the Heals Discovers collection are cropping up in lots of the press. As I catch up with myself I'll scan and upload all the images, but in the meantime, here are two from this months Living etc and July/August issue of House Beautiful.


Living Etc, Nov 2011



House Beautiful



Cardiff Design Festival Awards 2011

For the third year running, I was delighted to be commissioned to design and make the awards for the Cardiff Design Festival. Two layers of taut cotton threads were composed in a bright cerise and emerald green, with a fine dividing line in sunshine yellow.

Below are some pictures of the awards at the ceremony on Friday night (a top night at the Cardiff Coal Exchange). They aren't the best quality as they were taken on my phone. But the awards were lit by a changing spectrum of coloured light shining through them, and I couldn't believe the extraordinary effect - they were literally glowing when the red light shone through.

Oh, and I should add, I did actually win one of my own awards for the designs I produced for the Heals Discovers collection! Am delighted to say that the collection seems to be selling well for Heals as I've had my first reorder for the Symmetree throw. If you're asking Santa for a Laura Thomas Heals throw this Christmas - tell him to buy sooner rather than later!



Heal's Discovers



Symmetree Cushion

 

Symmetree Throw

 

Circle Line Cushion

Circle Line Throw

 I'm VERY excited to tell you that I'm part of the 2011 Heal's Discovers Collection. I created two exclusive designs, Circle Line and Symmetree which have been made into throws and cushions. The double cloth fabrics were woven at Melin Tregwynt in 100% lambswool. I actually worked on site at Tregwynt to thread up the looms: not a quick job!  It's been wonderful to take a design idea from a sketch all the way through to seeing it for sale in Heal's.