Out of the Blue
Written By Frances Healy •
My love for the unique, stylish creativity of Designers Guild started when I was at Art School and for an Interior Designer inspired by colour Designers Guild was always going to be one of my go-to fabric and wallpaper companies.
Designers Guild has been like a second family to me – I worked for the company myself in the early 1990’s, I met my now husband who worked for them as well and we got married during our time there. My best friend of 20 plus years, also now works for them too! I have so many happy memories and connections.
Trisha Guild takes inspiration for her natural surroundings, which resonates with my own influences taken from the colours in nature. The many blues of the sky’s, greens in the fields and hedgerows, not forgetting the hot pinks, yellows and oranges of flowers – these colours are all around us and should be brought into our homes every day. I take great pride in knowing that my education in the use of colour, pattern and texture to create harmonious spaces, comes from one of the UK’s great contemporary designers.
The exhibition is a stunning history of Trisha’s designs, history and influences, many of which I remember and have used in my own projects over the years. Even if you have never been a strong Designers Guild follower, you can’t help but be uplifted by the experience. So, why not take a trip to London, enjoy the buzzing streets of Bermondsey and take an hour to visit the exhibition – it will leave you feeling lighter and brighter!
Out of the Blue: Fifty years of Designers Guild at the Fashion and Textile Museum. The exhibition is currently closed for April, but has been extended to 13th September 2020. With never before displayed original designs and art-work, the exhibition showcases the very best of Designers Guild’s fifty years.
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Frances Healy
Interior Design Director
Frances Healy Interiors Ltd
About the Author: Frances Healy, Interior Design Director, Frances Healy Interiors Ltd
Frances has spent her entire career working in premium luxury residential properties across the whole of the UK and also into mainland Europe, the United States and Caribbean. Having completed Art School, Frances joined Charles Hammond Ltd on Sloane Street in London where she carried out her apprenticeship working as a junior member of one of the Design Teams. Her experience in classic period houses and riverside apartments during the 1980’s and 90’s within London and the luxurious country estates of the home counties, gave her a training, knowledge and address book, which is still with her today.
Returning to her home in the South West 20 years ago, Frances now heads up her own Interior Design business where she can still be found in prestige properties in the exquisite seaside towns of Salcombe, Fowey, St Mawes and Rock or high on the moors of Bodmin and Dartmoor still working her magic, still loving her trade and making many, many old and new clients very, very, happy.
Frances lives in the Southern Tamar valley right on the border between Devon and Cornwall with her husband and their beloved spaniel Barney. Weekends will be spent boating, walking the beaches (come rain or shine) or pottering in her greenhouse.