Period Living Magazine, February 2020
We’re so pleased that our beautiful Tiffany velvet in the colourway Spice is featured in the February 2020 issue of Period Living magazine, offering rich, rusty hues for ultimate warmth. It is pictured third from the right in this wonderful line-up of fabrics on page 21. 
The List Directory 2020
The Design Archives is delighted to feature in House & Garden magazine’s The List Directory 2020 which is an established guide of excellent design professionals. Now in its fourth year, The List is available online and in hard copy.
Red Magazine, November 2019
We’re delighted that our Tree of Life design in Mustard is featured as a paper-backed fabric in the November 2019 issue of Red magazine. It looks beautiful as the bold backdrop to this autumn wallpaper round-up.
Our new Symphony Collection has arrived
Launched at the London Interiors Show and new for Autumn/Winter 2019 from The Design Archives is SYMPHONY
A coloured weave designed to work alongside and complement our existing collection of vibrant and intricately patterned prints. Ingeniously composed to create a chenille effect from a linen/cotton mix, SYMPHONY provides a wonderfully ‘velvet like’ handle and texture which makes the perfect choice for upholstery and curtains. With a rainbow of colours to choose from, we are confident that this new addition will offer customers the perfect plain to mix and match for any scheme. See it now in our collection.
Available now in the following fifteen striking colours: Agean, Apple, Burnt Orange, Cafe Noir, Citron, Crimson, Fuchsia, Indigo, Latte, Lilac, Ocean, Oyster, Pearl, Seal and Wedgewood.
Homes and Gardens Celebrating 100 years
Our Grand Floral fabric in the Vermillion colourway has been included in a wonderful feature on heritage and archival fabrics in Homes & Gardens magazine’s 100-year anniversary issue, June 2019. Find us on page 35.
The English Home Magazine – March 2019
Many thanks to The English Home magazine for such great coverage of our Spring Garden collection in its March 2019 edition.
Curtains in Heidi, Gold; cushions Perivale, Mist, velvet cushion, Opera, Avocado.
Inspiration from 19th Century France
From the many thousands of beautiful prints in the Design Archive, comes this exquisite Broderies Chinoises hand painted print. Inspiration for a future collection! Watch this space….
New Distribution Agreements signed
THE DESIGN ARCHIVES ANNOUNCES NEW DISTRIBUTOR AGREEMENTS
Established in 2016, The Design Archives is rapidly expanding with new distribution agreements worldwide.
The Design Archives comprises literally thousands of original paper designs, archival reference books and fabric samples, some dating back to the 18c. Under the creative direction of Sharon Crowson, two collections have been launched since 2016, Archive 1 and Spring Garden which bring together stunning designs from the archive printed on to beautiful natural cloths. All developed and Printed in the UK.
We are delighted to announce that Katie Hopkinson will be our new agent in the North of England and Sam Coote our agent in North London and the Home Counties.
We have appointed Flortextile as our agent for Italy. Emanuela Salvi, the owner of Flortex is the distributor of Farrow and Ball, the agent for Mulberry, and is steeped in knowledge of textiles. Emanuela has been selling in the Italian market for over 25 years
The highly respected Pilar Sanchez at Gordon Imports is our Distributor in Spain.
Gordon Imports has a central showroom in Madrid, plus showrooms in Valencia and Marbella. Pilar has over 30 years experience of Spanish Distribution of English brands.
Kimberley Expertise is our agent for Russia and is behind the successful annual DecoRus exhibition in Moscow held in June where The Design Archives exhibited this year. Kimberley Expertise is the most established agent in Russia.
The Textile Company have well appointed Showrooms in Australia and New Zealand and are proud to distribute ‘World Best’ brands of decorative fabrics. Including The Design Archives. Their experienced staff and Agents offer a top class service.
Please contact our Chelsea Head office and Showroom for UK Stockists.
For further information please contact
info@thedesignarchives
pr@thedesignarchives
www.thedesignarchives.com
LONDON NORTH AND HOME COUNTIES
Elements 4 Design Agencies
Sam Coote +44 7773 052260
sam@elements4design.co.uk
NORTH EAST AND NORTH WEST
Mima Moo Home
Katie Hopkinson +44 7876 033375
mimamoo185@gmail.com
AUSTRALIA
The Textile Company
Peter Fitzgibbon
peter@textilecompany.com.au
ITALY
Flortex Textile srl
Emanuela Salvi
emanuela@flortextile.it
RUSSIA
Kimberley Expertise Ltd
Natasha Kimberley
nk@kimberleyexpertise.ru