New Living Magazine featuring Lorna Syson Textiles

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Lorna Syson Spotted by Urban Sherp at ICFF 2010

A big thank you to Urban Sherp for featuring me in their blog. I met Rebecca in New York at ICFF and had a lovely chat with her about how Lorna Syson Textiles is going Eco-friendly, and yes we have managed to achieve this goal a lot quicker than first thought! We are now bringing out a new complementary collection which is completely Eco-friendly!

Check out Urban Sherp's Blog entry below and make sure you check the site, its full of gorgeous Eco-friendly finds from across the world

Lorna Syson’s Stunning Sculptural Textiles

Written by Urban Sherp on July 9th, 2010

Who: Lorna Syson Textiles – UK

What: Wall Flowers

Where: Lorna Syson – £100 – £3999, in a variety of colors & sizes.

Why We Love It: These ‘Wall Flowers’ by textile artist Lorna Syson are anything but. We fell in love with the rich colors, the vibrancy and complete originality of these sculptural wall hangings. They truly are stunning.

Made of 100% wool, sued and silk, the textiles are screen printed or digitally printed with patterns designed by Lorna or in solid colors.  The petals are then laser cut and meticulously hand woven to create the 3-D form. One piece can take up to a week to create.

At ICFF, Lorna mentioned that her goal was to source an entirely sustainable collection by 2015. She has far surpassed that target date and will be presenting a completely ‘ec0-friendly’ collection at 100% Design in London this September – can’t wait!

For a taste of Lorna’s stunning collection with a smaller sticker price, check out her collection of accessoriesand pillows – the pillows are filled with 100% recycled wool that’s naturally resistant to dust mites, so is great for people with allergies.

Getting ready for 100% design

This September I will be showing at 100% design. It has been really busy already because that is when I am going to launch the new completely sustainable collection.

I am sharing the stand H114 with a good friend of mine Sarah-Jayne Guest for SjGuest Designs. I've pasted the campaign below but you can also see it via Mail chimp 

Introducing Lorna Syson Textiles and SjGuest Designs Stand H114 at 100% Design

100% Together! Textile designers Sarah-Jayne Guest and Lorna Syson will be exhibiting as a textile collective at 100% design. Although both designers work on independent projects and collections the pair have always supported each others work, and it seemed fitting they would work together on this venture too. The duo would be thrilled to see you at100% Design this year on stand H114, Earls Court, 23rd-26th Sept.   REGISTER FOR YOU TICKETS NOW The floral inspired interior collection consists of beautifully printed; laser cut and manipulated suede’s and textiles to produce bespoke three-dimentional wall flowers and an exquisite cushion collection. Lorna Syson Textiles will be launching the new 100% eco-friendly interior collection to complement her current collection at 100% Design Digitally Printed Chrysanthemum/Stripe Cushion. £32-£75 35 x 35cm and 50 x 50cm Folded Flower Suede Cushion. £11035 x 35cmwww.lornasyson.co.uk  Sarah-Jayne Guest creates a collection of bright and imaginative printed textiles for her label, SjGuest Designs. These illustrative prints are produced in small numbers and applied to textile furnishings and accessories.  Ercol chair covered in 'leaf' £450www.sjguest.com Lorna Syson - Green/Grey Double Petal Dahlia Wall Flower. £250 40 x 40 x 9cm SjGuest- Blue Duck 18" Cushion. £75   Lorna Syson- Pink/purple dahlia wall flower. £260 42 x 42 x 10cm SjGuest- Navy Frog 18" cushion. £75   SHARE THIS EMAIL:                      CONTACT US: For further information contact us on.... Lorna Syson www.lornasyson.co.uklorna@lornasyson.co.uk 07813018026 twitter: @lornasyson Sarah-Jayne Guest www.sjguest.com sjguest@gmail.com 07956287507 view email in browser | unsubscribe | update your profile | forward to a friend

Lorna Syson Textiles now selling with Swanky Maison

You can now by the cushion collection on the wonderful website Swanky Maison.

Swanky Maison is a limited company which sources and showcases high quality, unique and handcrafted homeware and gifts. Selected for their originality, incredible skills, and passion, we aim to help small producers and craftsmen who either don't have the time, money or expertise to create their own online shop, or who simply want to benefit from additional online opportunities. Our partners are all up and coming designer-makers who prefer to spend their time creating, not selling. They leave that to us, giving them more time to concentrate on their art. 

The result is a really great online gallery for those looking for something just a little bit different, either as a gift for someone special or for a treat for themselves.

We pride ourselves on the quality of both the service we provide and the goods our partners create. We are very discerning in our choice of partners and personally select everything you'll find on this site. Everything is handmade in the UK and we only deal directly with the designer-maker themselves, not retailers.

We love it all and hope you do too!

Linda made my day!

I would like to say a massive thank you to Linda! She is a very kind lady who brought one of my red corsages at the Ideal home show this weekend and send me a lovely email about the comments she had had while wearing it.


Linda wrote "...Just wanted you to have the feed back on how popular it was. I also might add it is such a statement piece you need no other jewellery.  I love the colour red and i like bold pieces so i was thrilled to buy your flower brooch..." 


This email really has made my day!


check it out on my website 

Ideal Home, Thursday 25th March 2010

I arrived early for my first 11 hour day manning the Design Factory stand we have at the Ideal home show! It was a long day and when i arrived I saw they had put this awful purple carpet down when we were meant to have white! Things were clashing and just not great!

I met some really lovely people who appreciate designer makers work and had plenty of comments about how we were the best stand there which was amazing!! Plenty of people signed up to the news letter and were genuinely interested in what we do!

I also had to compete with the usual, thats too expensive, why does that cost so much... it can be hurtful because they are basically saying that even though we have had a university education, years of training and have made one-off hand-made bespoke pieces our time is worth maybe £1 an hour if that..... I'm certain other trained professionals don't work for this amount so why must we?

But on a high note I'm off to do my second day, this one isn't as long only 8 hours and Neil is coming to join me from 1pm so i can have a break today!

2-4-1 tickets to ideal home!!

check this link out, two for one tickets to the ideal home show!!

http://www.idealhomemagazine.co.uk/compsoffers/offers/241_Ticket_Offer_for_Ideal_Home_Show_2010_article_296045.html

ICFF... Lorna Syson Textiles goes international

Lorna Syson Textiles is making its first debut in the USA! The international contemporary furniture fair is a world renowned event in the interior design calender and we have been chosen to show our work to represent up and coming British design! The event is in May and based in New york!

www.icff.com

More than 500 exhibitors will display contemporary furniture, seating, carpet and flooring, lighting, outdoor furniture, materials, wall coverings, accessories, textiles, and kitchen and bath for residential and commercial interiors. This assemblage of national and international exhibitors affords the chance to experience the most selective scope of the globe's finest, most creative, individual, and original avant-garde home and contract products – handily and temptingly showcased in one venue.