New Fashion And Textile Museum Exhibition — Out Of The Blue — Fifty Years Of Designers Guild
Image Courtesy of Designers Guild
Exhibition Dates: 14 February – 14 June 2020
Out of the Blue celebrates the work of influential design company Designers Guild.
Founded by Tricia Guild OBE, Designers Guild started life in 1970 as a small section of a single shop in Chelsea’s Kings Road.
Tricia Guild established Designers Guild whilst searching for textiles to decorate with.
By re-colouring a collection of Indian hand-block printed textiles, the first collection was established.
She opened her store on the Kings Road with her first collection of fabrics, also selling ceramics and furniture.
In 1974 she started working with artists such as Kaffe Fassett, Lillian Delevoryas and Janice Tchalenko, among others.
The brand has since evolved and grown into a global enterprise, whose products have changed the way we view colour, pattern and texture in our homes.
Out of the Blue unravels Tricia Guild’s unique and creative approach, focussing in on her inspiration, her intuitive design methodology and the techniques, processes and materials used.
Frustrated with the lack of truly contemporary fabrics and wallpapers for interiors, Tricia’s vision was to create a lifestyle.
Tricia showed people how to put the different elements of a room together; how colour, pattern, texture and form can combine to create a harmonious space.
Offering unique access to Designers Guild’s archive, with never before displayed original designs and art work,
Out of the Blue will showcase the story of Designers Guild, in settings that capture the changing tastes in interiors over the past five decades.
This will be highlighted alongside the techniques and processes vital for making these collections happen, from how the company has explored various printing methods in the quest for innovation, from hand block printing in the early days, to rotary screen-printing and most recently digital print
Exhibition Dates: 14 February – 14 June 2020
Open Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11am – 6pm
Thursdays until 8pm
Sundays, 11am – 5pm
Last admission 45 minutes before closing
Closed Mondays
