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Tricia Guild : in my view
As one of the world's foremost interior designers, Tricia Guild has a passionate belief that the way we choose to live has a significant impact on our well-being and happiness. The homes that we live in, the things that we surround ourselves with, and the everyday choices we make, can profoundly affect our outlook and positivity. It is no surprise, then, that Tricia practises what she preaches: she finds it impossible to separate her work as a designer from other aspects of her life, and she believes that, in seeking creative inspiration in each experience, especially in enjoying the things that bring pleasure to our lives, we can perfect the art of living. For Tricia, Italy is a particularly enduring passion: the culture, landscape, architecture, food and music all strike a creative chord. She has had a house there for many years. The last home was a rustic farmhouse, but when Tricia and her family began the search for a new property, she knew it would be decidedly different. In this new Italian home, Tricia found the perfect opportunity to create a contemporary interior reflecting a love of modernity and simplicity that has evolved over the years. In Tricia's view, modernity does not mean a lack of colour, pattern or texture; a contemporary interior can be both decorative and minimal - in fact, a confident use of colour and pattern can be the very thing that makes it even more wonderful. Here, working with the architect Stephen Marshall and the garden designer Arne Maynard, Tricia has created a special home - a contemporary interpretation of the local vernacular - that represents her kind of modern.
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Colour crusader
How did she reconcile such a design ethic with the deeply traditional Royals, for whom she is now working on her fourth commissioned collection? \"I was very touched to be asked,\" she says, \"because in a way what we do is quite innovative so it was an interesting idea. It isn't about making it contemporary in the way that our fabrics are contemporary,\" she says. \"It's respecting the traditional qualities and inspirations we found there. And yet making it right for the moment.\" It was, she concedes, challenging. And nerve-racking? \"Yes - very. I hear the Queen sees everything, so it was quite daunting - but the remit's quite wide.\" She chuckles: \"As long as it's liked!\" \"Hopefully I don't follow trends, no,\" she says, sipping a coffee in the basement of her landmark Chelsea shop, the very same one she opened aged 22 in 1970 - but vastly expanded. \"And hopefully I create trends - but that's not for me to say.\" She continues: \"I think there has been a British reticence about being garish, which I quite understand. Hopefully this isn't garish\" - she gestures around the shop - \"it's strong and invigorating.\" She uses words like this a lot: her designs are \"vivacious\" and \"dynamic\", and since a life-changing, technicolor visit to India in her youth (it is what prompted her to open the shop), she has wanted to \"show people how lovely it can be to live with colour\". It is, she believes, \"good for the soul\".
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A right royal makeover
Tricia Guild says they haven't simply reproduced anything, they've taken designs and re-thought them and re-coloured them. But there's no mistaking the way the look's going from the brochure and the DVD. The upholstery fabrics are used on old gilded sofas and chairs. The background's packed with Boulle furniture, 18th-century oils and Svres vases in that piercing blue-green, the instant international language of 19th-century plutocratic collecting. It's because they're using so much of it in one go - shiny silk on shiny silk plus grand flock wallpaper - that it could be a bit heavy-going for younger, Western European and North American tastes (though you can imagine it in those Nancy Reagan lookalikes' houses in Palm Beach). But in the lovely rich BRIC countries - especially Russia - you can just see them buying the whole package. Could it really be that Designers' Guild - refuge of Chelsea girls everywhere - is giving the Queen a 21st-century makeover? That King's Road shop full of New Agey combos (a Bertoia chair, say, with upholstery in shocking-pink cut velvet)? Its guiding light, Tricia Guild, likes to take some blazing Howard Hodgkin colours, a bit of knocked-back Frenchy rural cupboarding and combine them with Milanese white leather sofas. Tricia Guild absolutely doesn't do tea-washed retro fabric like Bennison, or archive prints like so many other fabric houses, or plum-pudding mahogany anything. Tricia Guild, who'd rather be in India looking at their shocking pink things, or in New York going round lofts with character pipework and over-scaled contemporary art. But it could, of course, be an inspired combination. Guild could re-colour and re-think the fabrics and wallpapers and sell them a lot harder than your average dinky decorator. She's got international distribution and she can talk up an idea like nobody's business.
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Think outside the bouquet
* Irises are in bloom now in many areas, but we seldom think to bring them indoors, or, if we do, to mix them with other flowers. Guild places a tall bearded iris in a medium-height vase with a narrow neck and groups it with white flowers in shorter vases. The off-kilter arrangement of one tall bloom at the side could be unsettling to the eye, but the grouping is placed in front of a silver tray that is the same height as the iris and helps to unify. * Peonies are Guild's favorite flower. Guild likes to take long-stemmed peonies and trim the stems down to 6 inches. She puts a half-dozen blooms in a low bowl with some greenery hanging over. * Pansies are the winter favorite in many areas, but we seldom think to display them indoors. Guild says that's because pansies get lost in large displays. She suggests putting a single pansy in a petite vase and mixing it with other small vases with flowers of similar colors.
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SURF ARRAY OF COLORS BY SITE
If turquoise isn't your thing, you may want to check out the blogger's other color sites: Black and White Delight (www.blackandwhitedelight.com), Decor Green (www.decorgreen.com), Pink and Brown Love (www.pinkandbrownlove.com)...
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Going green
It's appropriate that green is the colour of the walls of [Tricia Guild]'s hallway, given how envy-inspiring the veteran designer's west London home is. The vibrant lime hue is bold but beautiful and is a shade that runs through the entire house. \"The colour is just like spring,\" says Guild. \"Even on the dullest day it means that this house always has a life and energy about it.\" Guild, who started Designers Guild in 1970, and two years later opened an interiors shop on London's King's Road, is known for her colourful and contemporary style and her home reflects her professional tastes with its palette of lime, fuchsia and turquoise. \"I love colour,\" she explains enthusiastically, \"but when you start looking around the house it's actually very tempered, with a lot of white and natural.\" So although the interior walls are striking, pale marble and light wood floors keep the decor from ever appearing brash.
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BRINGING A TOUCH OF FLAIR TO FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS
What do you do with a bunch of flowers you've just picked from the garden or unwrapped from the florist's? Chances are that, like most people, you'll plunge them into a jug or vase of water, perhaps pausing to cut off the bottom inch or so of stem or strip the leaves before swiftly arranging the blooms to your liking. This was pretty much my approach before I worked with the interior designer Tricia Guild on a new book in which she demonstrates her highly original approach to arranging flowers. That's not to say that Tricia's arrangements are fussy, or take hours to create. Snippets of garden flowers and foliage arranged in tiny clear glass vases only an inch or so high - or pansies and primulas in a collection of vintage bottles - can be beautiful. Sometimes it is just the setting that's surprising. For a summer party, she will arrange flowers in the garden, setting simple vases of cornflowers and bluebells on tables, or suspending single heads of roses or pom-pom dahlias from strips of ribbon strung from a simple fabric awning. \"I've always thought of my garden as another room, so why shouldn't it have its own displays of flowers?\" she asks. \"Even if it's cold and most of the guests stay inside, the view of the garden from the house can still give lots of pleasure.\"
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Designer Guild's High Fashion Textiles Now Featured as Luxury Slipcovers From Bemz
Bemz was founded in 2004 by expat-Canadian, Lesley Pennington. A year later, designer covers for IKEA sofas and chairs were available to customers around the world - via the Internet. All Bemz fabrics are specially selected for their high quality and are machine washable. Custom made slipcovers can be purchased via the website at www.bemz.com, with any favourites available as free swatches beforehand. In December 2009, Bemz opened an Inspiration Store on Odengatan 22 in Stockholm - a source of inspiration and shop in one. \"We are thrilled to work with Designers Guild - one of the most exciting textile design companies in the world. They are a perfect fit for our growing customer base, who look for sophistication in design,\" said Lesley Pennington, founder and CEO of Bemz. \"Our motivation at Bemz has always been to encourage personal expression. Trica Guild and Designers Guild have mastered the \"mix\" with new ways to use color, patterns and textures in a free, artistic way.\"
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magic makeovers: STYLE BIBLE what's hot in the shops ; tricks of the trade
[Tricia Guild]'s Designer's Guild company sells her fabrics, paints, wallpaper and furnishings all over the world.
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