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Nicolette Mayer
With impeccable attention to intricate details, Palace Damask is inspired by the handmade Venetian velvets created with hand-applied wooden printing blocks by ancient textile techniques in small workshops made famous by houses like Fortuny and Luigi Bevilacqua. Our inspiration comes from ancient Italian works of art, the rich cultural heritage of Renaissance Venice, the historical Venetian velvet arts, sumptuous patterned velvets, brocades. Damasks adorn the walls of the city's grandest palaces and richest churches, covered tables, and upholstered furniture. Palace Damask starts with true historical reference, pays homage and tribute to its origins, and to collectors who know the original work and then embarks on an artistic license, contemporary interpretation, and re-Imagineering. Palace Damask is bold, edgy, sumptuous, and both modern and timeless.
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.
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.
Topkapi Palace, Iznik style pottery, and the beautiful carpets in Palaces old and new, we tried to dream and reimagine an ideal Ottoman-inspired new kind of chic. Colors that are fresh and modern, blended with themes that date back hundreds of years, Topkapi Garden includes sumptuous velvets and Belgian linens, with metallic grasscloth wallpapers and wall panels. Wall panels that are uniquely designed to be cuttable at popular and 9', 10' and 12' wall heights, solving many typical issues designers have. Topkapi Garden is a pattern inspired by the Iznik tiled wall mural at the Topkapi Palace, in Istambul, Turkey. A garden of cypress trees, tall as minarets and underplanted with hyacinth bells, has been immortalized on tiles in an alcove in the harem, once the most private–and forbidden–part of the palace.
The House of Scalamandre
This captivating collection, created in collaboration with The Met, draws on artworks and objects from across nine of The Met’s 17 curatorial departments to create a rich mosaic of historical narratives. Each design is a celebration of artisanship, inspired by exquisite forms and cultural traditions. Following our first collaboration with The Met in the 1970s, we bring museum magic into the home once again in homage to history and the grand beauty of art.
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.
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.
The provenance of Royal Delft “William & Mary” is the commission in the 1600s of thematic tile plaques (manufactured in Delft) based on a design by Daniel Marot, who worked as a principal designer to William of Orange and also worked at William and Mary’s court in England and who may have played a pivotal role in furnishing and decorating the Water Gallery at Hampton Court Palace. A blue Delft vase is within a three-lobed ornament or trefoil surrounded by a cartouche with large curling acanthus leaves and flowers. Filled with diamond ornament on either side of the trefoil, a bird sits on the cartouche. Delft tiles were often used to seal damp walls from moisture and as Stadholder of Holland and King of England, William III decided to tile the walls on the Thames-side rooms to keep out the dampness with exceptionally beautiful glazed tiles. The project was never completed, as Mary died in 1694, and the rooms were demolished as early as 1700. The plaques sold piece by piece and disappeared, only resurfacing in 1923 when an art dealer put ten for sale. They are now housed at various museums, including the Metropolitan Museum, Rijksmuseum, Default, Cophenhagen, and Sevres. With reverence for the originals and equal parts artistic license, we carefully resorted their beauty on a new medium.
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.
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