The Home Decoration Retailers’Association
announced the winners of the prestigious HDRA Awards, at Autumn Fair 2009.
The HDRA Awards reflect the
views of both independent retailers and suppliers within the home décor,
furnishings and interiors market, recognising and rewarding excellence in the
market.
Osborne & Little are
delighted to have won HDRA BEST WALLPAPER COLLECTION for Pompadour Wallpapers.
HDRA said: "There
are obviously some very strong wallpaper collections in the market currently
and the nominees in this category covered a broad spectrum of differing tastes –
with exceptionally high priced collections vying with more modestly priced
ones. Which proves that the HDRA members offer their customers
wonderfully varied collections and choices covering all aspects of style and
cost. Our winning collection for 2009 comes from a company who is one of
the world’s leading names in both fabric and wallpaper design. For four
decades their designs have been at the heart of interior trends, from the paint
effects of the 80s, the celestial motifs of the 90s to today where they are
leading the way in the resurgence of metallics and flocks. The winning
collection for 2009 is Pompadour by Osborne & Little which was launched in
Spring this year and is obviously wowing everyone with its beautiful designs
inspired by a bygone era of the court of Louis XV’s court and his most famous
mistress Madame de Pompadour."
We would like to say a big THANK YOU to
everyone that voted for the Pompadour Wallpaper collection.
Anthony Evans of Cole & Sonpresents
the award to Shauna Dennison of Osborne & Little.
SARISKAR WALLPAPERS BY HENRY WILSON
OSBORNE & LITTLE has commissioned the celebrated
photographer, artist and Indian expert to design a collection of wallpapers,
SARISKAR
Henry Wilson’s new SARISKAR
collection of wallpapers for Osborne & Little distils the colours and
patterns of historic India for today’s mood. For some five centuries of India’s
relationship with the West, the imagery of the subcontinent has been a source
of colour and movement through the classic paisleys, chintzes, block prints and
‘Tree of Life’ patterns. Indeed, decoration and surface ornamentation are
hard-wired into the Indian design psyche – they are omnipresent in India,
whether on the street, on its exquisite archaeological monuments or in its
world-famous forts and royal palaces. ‘Such is the rich combination of wall and
architectural detail and soaring architecture, it can be overwhelming, much of
the fine detail easily overlooked among the kaleidoscope of pattern and colour.
It is these frequently missed decorative details that I have drawn upon for my
designs.’
Henry Wilson has been a
regular visitor to India for more than 30 years, travelling throughout the
whole country as he explored its culture and photographed its life. He has
especially taken time to discover the many facets of Rajasthan and Gujarat (as
the names of the patterns in the collection would suggest). Through intimate
knowledge of these aspects of historic India, he has become passionate about
the wealth of visual stimulation to be found there, and now has sensitively
adapted and refined predominantly the floral themes of this rich tradition for
today’s world. At a time when India is so much in the ascendant, and Western
interest has been reawakened in India’s vibrant creative culture, the Sariskar
collection brings together in a unique way the historic and the exotic with the
contemporary.
