Nicolette Mayer Drapery Fabric

A modern approach to the ancient tradition of hand-painted plum and cherry blossom decor. The layered blossoms and branches represent a modern approach to chinoiserie. The inspiration of the plum or cherry blossoms represents the delicate fragility and the beauty of life. It’s a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. When the cherry blossom trees bloom for a short time each year in they serve as a visual reminder of how precious and how precarious life is. Sophisticated chinoiserie for the most discriminating interior designers in the world.

Inspired by traditional arabesque pomegranate patterns used in Turkish tiles, Byzantine is a Floral Ornamental pattern that evokes tulips, pomegranates, and ribbons- themes used commonly throughout history in Ottoman decorative arts such as tile work, and Iznik ceramics. Born with a natural eye and talent for design, the maker’s passion is evident for the complexities of fabric, texture, and technology; fascination for creating timeless prints, that are classic, yet perfectly on-trend.

Born with a natural eye and talent for design, Nicolette’s passion is evident for the complexities of fabric, texture, and technology; fascination for creating timeless prints, that are classic, yet perfectly on-trend. Inspired in part by Zaha Hadid’s neo-futuristic architecture and the numerous modern architects worldwide who interpret the future into new concepts of residential and commercial space, inspired by the challenge of what patterns would organically and symbiotically exist within the interiors of such inspired modern spaces. Tripod is a bold, futuristic pattern with multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life. Trion represents triangles and prisms that reflect light. One side draws in light and the other disperse it.

Royal Delft Filigree is a modern “blue and white” classic. A pattern that plays with the iconic ornately painted Royal Delft 60cm flower vase, behind a floral vine with lingerie-like peek-a-boo effect it is recognizable as De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles/Royal Delft yet it is fun and new. Its signature is bold, modern, and effortlessly classic – all at the same time. Mayer, born in South Africa, grew up with a love for Delft blue and white. Royal Delft started in the 17th century with the VOC (the Dutch East India Company, who also settled South Africa as a stopover point on the way to Holland) brought the blue-painted porcelain back from China. When supply was difficult to guaranty, the popularity of the look resulted in the inspiration for Dutch ceramists to create something similar, and as it evolved, something new. The result was European-influenced porcelain that became very different, sophisticated, and its own signature relative to the imported Chinese ceramics. The story of Delft, Majolica, and Faience is very similar. This new collection provides blue and white patterns that mix perfectly for collectors and fans of any of the great blue and white ceramic traditions.

Masterpieces Tulip is a pattern featuring the rarest, most prized Royal Delft blue and white pieces. Entirely hand-painted in Holland in the same workshop since the 17th century the ‘Tulipiere’ pyramid vases consist of stacks of ever-smaller elements where flowers can be put in each opening. The imposing flower pyramids are made to follow the late 17th-century royal pyramids with royal allure. The Royal Delft Masterpieces include the Tulipere, lion jar, and large ginger jar with finial, which in this wallpaper pattern, with perfectly placed flowers in pastel tones against an aged backdrop, makes for stunning room settings.

Royal Delft Etudes de Fleurs is inspired by the iconic Dutch tulips associated with stately Royal Delft Tulipieres, and the extraordinary beautiful blooms in still life Dutch paintings and the Netherlands. Tulips were in cultivation since the 13th century, but only really took off as a passion for collectors among aristocrats in the 1600s when Turkish traders introduced them to the Dutch. The tulip crazes in the 17th century became so fevered that the bulbs were traded as currency and theft of the flowers triggered harsh penalties. While it’s not the fanciest flower in the garden, the beauty, and grace of a simple tulip mean enduring love between partners, undying passionate love, passion spurned, royalty, abundance, prosperity, and indulgence. Although it was considered more of a symbol for charity by the Victorians, the Turkish who originally bred the flower, considered it a symbol of paradise on Earth, making it a part of many religious and secular poems and art pieces. While the Ottoman Empire planted the bulbs to remind them of heaven and eternal life, the Dutch that popularized the flower considered it a reminder of how brief life can be instead. Mixed with simple wildflowers and scattered in all directions, Flora & Fauna is considered a symbol of happiness and joie de vivre! Flora & Fauna pays homage to artist Vittorio Accornero whose Giardini di Seta works for Gucci inspired a generation of interior and fashion designs to create floral art.

Royal Delft Purisima is a pattern inspired by the Royal Delft baluster vase with tossed flowers evoking a floral artist creating an arrangement. With its exotic shape similar to a calabash, bottle gourd shape, it is elegant and stately yet whimsical. Since the early 17th century, the vase has had a rounded exaggerated belly and a gracefully slim neck with a mouth at the top. The vase has an exotic shape and is used for long flowers such as amaryllis or summer lilies. The peacock is central in this decoration. Birds are reoccurring decoration for a Delftware painter and birds and flowers still inspire designers worldwide. It is a dream to create this collection, bringing the iconic looks made famous over 400 years of porcelain creation to new categories of wallpaper and fabric.

Royal Delft lion jar is a modern take on “blue and white” patterns with shadowy damask weaves. It combines a classic aged damask motif and the iconic, historic, timeless allure of Royal Delft’s Porcelain Lion Jar, whose common chinoiserie cousin is known as a temple jar. It centers the amazing lion jar within the center of the updated damask shape that dances with it. The playfulness of the pattern mixes with other modern patterns and more traditional ones, providing the designer with the flexibility of a transitional vibe to create classic appeal for next-generational customers who look for freshness and novelty.