Pomo summer season: textile designer Camille Walala’s assortment of home accessories patterned with bold graphics influenced by the Memphis Group will launch at this month’s London Design and style Festival.
The London-based mostly designer, who cites Memphis as a important reference, will current her newest range at the Aria style shop in Islington.
“Forget Skandi-inspired minimalism, for London Design and style Festival this September Aria is injecting colour into London’s concrete jungle,” said a statement from the keep.
Furnishings styles and prints by Memphis Group members became synonymous with the Postmodern motion in the 1980s, and Walala’s colourful and geometric patterns continue a similar aesthetic.
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Her collection involves a range of cushions, printed with a colour palette that includes black, white, red, blue and green. Dots and dashes fill coloured blocks, although diagonal stripes and square grids include to the geometric types.
Cube-shaped pouffes carry flecked, gridded and striped patterns in different combinations on the distinct sides.
On wall-mounted shelves, black edges frame similar patterns utilized to the back surfaces.
Obtainable in rectangle, square and triangle versions, the storage units can be hung individually or stacked up in sets.
A selection of ceramics was created in collaboration with Stoke-on-Trent pottery organization CoBaltum, although the furniture was made with artist and craftsman Dale Kirk.
Walala graduated with a degree in Textile Design and style from the University of Brighton in 2009 prior to setting up her eponymous studio in east London.
She has lately covered a creating in Shoreditch with her signature prints, and will apply a equivalent remedy to the exterior of Aria’s Upper Street store throughout the capital’s style festival. Space settings that include her designs will be put in inside the store.
“Walala will be producing her mark on both the interior and exterior of our shop, as our corner plot of Upper Street turns into Walala’s latest canvas for London Design and style Festival,” Aria stated.
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The In Da Property exhibition of her goods will coincide with the festival – which runs from 19 to 27 September 2015 – with the official launch taking area on 22 September.
Design shop Darkroom will also existing a homeware assortment with Postmodern influences throughout this year’s event.
Dezeen has been exploring the return of Postmodernism in a summer-prolonged series of content articles, which consists of in-depth stories about the movement’s iconic developing and goods, as properly as new examples of the controversial type.
