Eight prints, from eight traditions of ornament that women made for centuries.
Eight prints, drawn from eight traditions of ornament. Sicilian majolica. Kashmiri paisley. Renaissance velvet. Bookbinding endpapers.
All of it is decorative art, which is the polite way of saying art that women made and nobody signed.
Marguerite signs it. The MA cipher is hidden in every print. Sometimes in the corner, sometimes grown into a flower stem, sometimes small enough that you have to tilt the case to the light.
Find it, and you know it is ours.
Open an old book, a properly made one, and before you reach a single word there is a page of pure pattern. Marbled, gilt-tooled, set by a binder who knew perfectly well that nobody would ever credit him for it.That...
The boteh has been curling its way across Kashmiri shawls since the Mughals. Weavers in Srinagar would spend years on a single kani shawl, and when the design finally reached Europe it caused such a frenzy that a mill town...
Granada takes its name from the pomegranate, and for six hundred years the city wove that fruit into everything it made: silk, velvet, tile, carved stone. Split one open and you get the whole idea in one go. Hundreds of...
Sicilian ceramicists have been painting suns with faces for about four hundred years, and not once have they made the sun look pleased about it. Slightly stern. Faintly amused. Rays like knives.We surrounded ours with lemons, oranges and blossom, then...
Made to be carried, every day.
There is a garden wall somewhere in the south of France that has been repainted so many times the stones have gone soft at the edges. At some point, somebody painted a flower on one of them. Then another. Then...
Indian block printers carve one flower into one wooden block and stamp it a thousand times. European costume makers cut cloth into diamonds and called it harlequin. This print introduces the two of them.Lotus, tulip and rosette, one to a...
In Jaipur, block printers work in courtyards tiled with pattern, and nothing ever matches. A quilt gets stitched together from whatever offcuts are lying about, so one square comes out ochre, the next ruby, the next pine green, and somehow...
Every painter has a corner of the studio where they test their signature. The same two letters, over and over, in whatever colour is left on the brush, until the wall stops being a wall and starts being a painting.That...
A soft matte finish across the whole print.
Built-in magnets for a secure hold and faster wireless charging.
Each case is made for you once you order it, so nothing is made to sit on a shelf.
