Lorna Syson on My Deco Moodboard

I am now selling on My Deco, and one of the great things about the website is you can create 3-D rooms and mood-boards with items selling on the site.
I created this mood-board to include some of my items!

Blue/lime and grey Lorna Syson Textiles       by lorna_syson

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NEW colours for framed flowers

The new purple/ hot pink colour way is used in these two complementing framed flowers. These RRP at £55, trade customers please contact me about wholesale T+C's

Wall flowers seen in Selfbuilder and home maker magazine.

New Living Magazine featuring Lorna Syson Textiles

Also remember to please vote for me in the National Shell Live Wire Awards, just register on the right hand side of the page and vote for my video! Voting ends next Friday so only 6 days left

June Newsletter for Lorna Syson Textiles

Introducing the first of our monthly Lorna Syson Textiles newsletters! click on the link to see it, form to be on the net soon but please email (lorna@lornasyson.co.uk) or send a message and we will make sure you are added to the newsletter!
This month is about ICFF New York, Interior Lifestyle show in Japan and how Lorna Syson Textiles is going green!

NEW YORK, NEW YORK... tomorrow

So, the bags are packed (almost) I've got myself three very large suitcases with my clothes and textile pieces for ten days in the City and the ICFF exhibition. I've been on the phone to Hana for most of the morning discussing what the whether is going to be like out there and what we should pack!

We've also found a website called Metropolis mag which has a feature called  The Ultimate ICFF events guide, which is very exciting to see the parties and events!


Here is the screen grab of Lorna Syson Textiles on the ICFF exhibitor list. Unfortunately the website is still wrong, this is not good and I hope my follow up emails will mean this is changed ASAP

Will keep you updated with everything while we out in NYC!

Lorna Syson Textiles spotted by the Trend Bible

Below is taken from the blog of the trend bible. They visited me at the BCTF show in harrogate.

It feels great to be used in their blog and spotted by a second trend predition company! I'm also pretty chuffed that I'm wearing a very similar pair of brown brouges in my picture which can also be seen in their trend preditions for 2010/2011

Trends: A/W 11/12 Home Trends, Behind the scenes…

Blood, sweat and tears go into producing our seasonal trend forecasting manuals…we’ve been working on our Autumn Winter 2011/12 Home Interiors book for the past 3 months, researching the key social and cultural trend ‘drivers’ that underpin the trends, hosting colour forecasting panels and sourcing up-and-coming textile and wallpaper manufacturers to feature in our forecasts. We work 20 months ahead of the season and sell our forecasting manuals to interior designers, brands, retailers and manufacturers in over 18 countries. Our forecasts help our clients build effective forward-thinking strategies, understand shifts in consumer behaviour and have confidence in selecting the right colours, materials and prints to enhance their product ranges.

We thought we’d bring you some exclusive behind the scenes photos and explain the painstaking processes and methods we go through to  create our unique books…We will soon publish a preview of each of our four trends for winter;Perfected, Utilitarian, Geographique and Alpine Shelter in association with FashionMag.com.

“Pastels are big for interiors for 2011, which is unusual for a winter season that would ordinarily focus on darker colours,” explains Trend Bible Creative Director, Joanna Feeley. “This look isn’t about mixing typical peppermint, baby blue, sugary pink and lemon, but about a more sophisticated palette of tinted neutrals. We love buttermilk yellow and apricot which look great in woolly mohairs, felted wools and plush velvets. We’ve included these colours in our Perfected story for winter.”

We have worked with our highly experienced panel of colour forecasters to develop 4 palettes for winter, each palette has 8 colours that are represented in Pantone cotton swatches. Each colour is given a TPX, TCX and CMYK colour value for easy interpretation.” We only include the key fashion and highlight colours in our palettes, believing our customers have core colours they like to carry over from season to season,” explains Joanna. “Our Pantone colour swatches are presented on mini palette cards which allow users to remove the swatches for colour matching and palette creation- it’s really important to us that our books are as user-friendly as possible so little features like this make it a versatile design tool.“

We work with our panel of  ’unusual and inspiring thinkers’ to develop themes based on future social and cultural drivers. The Trend Bible team then edit and refine this information, creating 4 commercial trends dedicated to home interiors. We then host a seasonal colour panel inviting key colourists and forecasters to share their research, thoughts and ideas. This work underpins our trends for the season. We have a database of over 4,000 designer-makers who keep us up-to-date on their latest designs and products, so we’re constantly seeking out newness and finding the individuals that pioneer change and innovation. We share the contact details of every designer we feature in our Credits section, so that our customers can contact our contributors directly for more information. This makes our books indispensable design tools for interior designers.  

Our fabric contributors range from large manufacturers through to niche designer-makers. We spend much of the year travelling to trade showsand craft fairs, graduate events and textile exhibitions to source the latest talent for our forecasts.  This season we feature fabrics and wallpapers from MissPrint, Melin Tregwent and Madison and Grow to name a few. Each of our four stories has a fabric hanger page that shows eight key prints and materials for each theme. Each fabric is hand-cut in-house by our team- there are lots of blisters to show for it! “This year we’ve been to several shows including Maison in Paris, the British Craft fair in Harrogate, Top Drawer and Spring Fair, Birmingham. We’ve included the top picks from these shows in our forecasts which helps buyers really see the trends start to come alive,” explains Victoria Buchanan, Trend Bible design assistant.

Here are a couple of sample pages from our Autumn Winter 2011/12 book, the first shows our Colour Combinations and Key Materials pages from the PErfected story.

Below is a mood page from our Utilitarian trend for Autumn Winter 2011/12.

Trend Bible trend books help you gain an understanding of where the trends have come from, which colours and materials will be important and how you can commercially interpret each look. For your indispensable design tool, email us atenquiries@trendbible.co.uk for regional agents, appointments, pricing and order enquiries.

more BCTF photos!

 

Really proud of Francie's prints on the catwalk!

Feeling really proud today, my very talented freelance textile designer friend, who has been selling her brilliant designs to fashion houses and high end designers for a while now. She rang me to let me know that she spotted one of her prints on a number of items on style.com! I was very excited and not surprised, i get a feeling this will be one if many such phone calls!

Below are some images from the Pre-fall 2010 collection by Adam Lippes! Gorgeous items, I especially like (and actually really want for myself) the blue empire line dress and think he has used the print and adapted it to his collection in such a delicate and elegant way!

BCTF!

So I'm getting ready for BCTF, and although I have lots to do such as printing out my price lists and making sure I have the correct items, it's not really hit me yet that I am going in 2 days!

I think it's the case of having so much to do, you just become slightly blind, don't get my wrong this event is really important to me, it is my first time there and I am in the Newcomers section on stand number 13 (good job I'm not superstitious) Maybe I'm just so nervous I'm trying not be think to much about it but I'm definitely going for that motto of 'If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail' so I am going to make sure every box is ticked on my huge to do list and keep professional!

My brochures turned up today and I must say I'm very proud of them, they were printed by Dave at positive printing (email info@positive-print.co.uk) and photographs taken by Vicky Hubbard of Victoria Jane Photography and fotos2art, and without their help they would not be looking so perfect and professional!

Lorna Syson Textiles spotted by MPDclick, trend prediction

While I was at the Ideal Home show I had a chat with Jo, a photographic journalist from Mud Pie Click, a trend predication company which goes around the shows and writes about up and coming interior trends! 

From the Mud Pie website " We know that occasionally it isn’t possible to attend every trade show on the calendar – whether its money or time, some of them may get missed. Thankfully, with Mpdclick’s Trade Fair area, you can keep up-to-date with our extensive coverage of the best trade shows and exhibitions from around the world."

She was kind enough to send me over her right up, check out a snippet below

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.

Setting up Ideal Home exhibition!!

We set up our stand for the Ideal home show yestarday. I was the first to arrive at 12.00 and found the space empty, we had paid for lights, sockets, locked storage area, carpet, facia and there was nothing appart form other people's disgarded cardboard boxes!

So that was the beginning of the chasing up which lasted untill 6! this photo was taken at 6 and still no carpet but the tannoy kept saying we had to leave!!

Its soo hard to comprehend how much planning and work has gone in to these events making them look perfect!

Debbie from Debbrie Bryan was manning the stand today so hopefully the first day went well. I will be there Thurs,Fri Sat and Sun so if you want to pop and say hi i would love to have a chat

http://www.idealhomeshow.co.uk/