Memories, Marks and Fragments
From October, we want to treasure home in its truest sense – as a container for everything.
An almanac of our homes as the holder of our possessions, experiences, palettes, people and place. This stance on our home as an ongoing story, rather than a quickly curated chapter, is something that I think about a great deal. A real looseness and beauty of decorating as a marker of your life, rather than of trends or of others.
Many of us have been unfortunate or fortunate, depending on your view, to have experienced changes at home earlier or different than the usual way of things. I did - and the individual and collective experiences can still bring me up short in an instant. But I also try to see these fragments as a gift. By knowing this wrong footedness that life can be, I do know quite clearly what it is and what it isn’t. So I also view home with perhaps a slightly different lens.
Because life always must trump design, but design and beauty can always be incorporated and celebrated as part of life and the memories that they bring.
This set of markers in my family informs a great deal of how I run our business. How we treat our suppliers, couriers, and my team of course. How we make our paint is the fundamental base from which we can serve the collective us best. But it also laid the ground for how I look after and think of our customers. If you are a customer – I hope you can feel this.
We are here to help you tell your story of home – room by room, year by year. I do know that colour can be the backdrop to so many moments at home – and that it sits as part of that story to tell later. Perhaps if we had longer to think, we would either do it more ‘right’ for each of us, or do less, or do something entirely different to what we thought we should have. Perhaps we might spend some of our refurbishment budget on a trip to Zanzibar instead…
And so, we thought we would propose the idea of thinking about memories, marks and fragments over the next twelve months – like an inherent memory box.
Every quarter we will offer a new chapter to explore within our theme for the year. Chapters in the literal sense and as moments that are markers. For now, we celebrate ‘A room of one’s own’- the pleasure in creating personal spaces that support our individual thoughts and creativity.
Our town house has changed palette and we’ve introduced three really beautiful new colours. We will share more about each of these soon. But I hope you can visit. It is a very quiet and beautiful space – and you can sit with us as long as you like.
