Currently we’ve been noticing the return of lace and eyelet in a manner that’s by some means, in opposition to all odds, completely un-frilly. Working example? The romantic but recent lace curtains by Nest Design, like these. See? We love the best way they handle to really feel delicate however not fusty—and we are able to simply see how they’d carry in an open window.
It’s in all probability helps that Nest Design’s strategy isn’t fussy, both. “I’ve at all times beloved making issues, notably out of textiles, so after coaching as an inside designer I began Nest again in 2001,” writes founder Lucy Bathurst. “Since then, it’s grown from simply me in a basement to a crack crew of seamstress ninjas designing items for architects, inns, eating places and personal shoppers.”
Now these ninjas, and Lucy, work out of a transformed Mission Corridor in London the place they “focus on sourcing uncommon, pure, vintage, and hand-dyed materials,” stitching them into new headboards, curtains, cushions, and wall hangings that may be seen the world over.
At the moment Lucy writes in from London with the film bed room that impressed Nest HQ, her kitchen pet peeve, and the shocking shade she dyed her sheets. Learn on…
You’re invited to dinner. What’s your go-to present?
Champagne, flowers, and cheese if it’s an easy dinner and one thing textile-y if it’s a housewarming. Relying on the tastes of the buddy, it may be one thing classic that I feel they’d love, or perhaps one in all our handmade cushions.
What’s in your bedside desk?
Primarily books, a pleasant massive pile of them—which at the moment features a 1970’s Guide of Dragons, Hettie Judah’s Lapidarium, and The Artistic Act by Rick Rubin. Oh, and a few peonies from the backyard.
What’s your desert island design/artwork/architecture-related e book?
I’m undecided that it’s strictly talking any of the above, however Stephen Ellcock’s All Good Issues is totally chock stuffed with one of the best type of visible magic.
What podcast or playlist do you placed on once you want inspiration?
I like Jo Andrews’ Haptic & Hue podcast. It’s an interesting and brilliantly researched exploration of all issues textile, and it by no means fails to remind me what a wealthy and various area it’s and the way fortunate I’m to work in it.
What’s a movie or TV present whose aesthetic has caught with you?
I obtained a bit bit obsessive about the bed room in Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favorite. To the extent that I made a decision I wanted to recreate it in brutalist type right here at Nest’s HQ. The top result’s actually somewhat pretty and never almost as bonkers because it sounds.
