Welcome to TGP Tidbits where we round up the happenings and our musings of the design industry each week. This week we take a look at A Very Draper Teddy Bear, Daylesford Comes to Dallas, and Little Greene’s 27 New Paint Colors. Written by Natalie Aldridge.
A Very Draper Teddy Bear
At TGP we occasionally have a real weakness for things that are entirely unnecessary but completely delightful, and I think a Dorothy Draper teddy bear falls squarely into that category.
Dorothy Draper Home has made a series of handmade teddy bears covered in Draper fabrics, including the wonderfully old-fashioned Princess Grace Rose in pink and blue. There is something about seeing one of Draper’s exuberant prints fitted perfectly into teddy bear that is so charming.
Of course, Dorothy Draper herself understood better than most that interiors need a bit of whimsey. Her rooms were grand, certainly, but they were never timid or serious. Enormous florals, stripes, black-and-white floors, combinations of pink and green. A teddy bear in a fabulous chintz feels perfectly at home in that world.
The bears can also be special ordered in any Dorothy Draper print and are all made in New York. This immediately sent me down the rabbit hole of deciding which fabric I would choose. Les Fleures de Toulon has always been a favorite DD print of mine and I think it would look wonderful on a teddy bear. Get your bear here!
Daylesford Comes to Dallas
This October, Daylesford and Bamford are packing up a little piece of the Cotswolds and bringing it to Dallas for a two-day trunk show hosted by Cornelia Guest, Judith Guest, Kimberly Whitman, and Alice Manners. The illustrated invitation alone, complete with sheep in cowboy hats piling into a pink pickup truck has us excited!
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For those unfamiliar, Daylesford began as an organic farm in the Cotswolds and has since evolved into brand synonymous with British food, gardens, homewares, entertaining, and country life. Bamford, its sister lifestyle brand, adds clothing, homewares, skincare, and all manner of beautifully packaged things under the same umbrella. Founder Carole Bamford, has built a truly English company built on the idea of living well.
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The pairing of Texas meets England feels oddly perfect. So bringing a bit of Daylesford country life to Texas feels less like a trunk show and more like a meeting of two very different schools in the best way. The trunk show will take place October 27th and 28th. Be certain to sign-up here to be the first to get all the details.
Little Greene’s 27 New Paint Colors
I have always had something of an endless fascination with paint colors. It doesn’t necessarily lie in the colors themselves, but in the history they carry: a bit of peeling paint in an old house, or the many layers of color uncovered during a restoration. Somewhere beneath centuries of redecorating is the exact shade someone chose for a room hundreds of years ago.
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England’s Little Greene has long been particularly good at digging into that history, and its latest collection gives us 27 new colors, several with rather wonderful stories behind them. Perpetual Blue was taken from a surviving paint palette belonging to Winston Churchill at Chartwell, while Flight Pink was found on the upper walls of the great staircase at Wimpole Hall. At Stowe, the decoration of the Chinese House provided Elysian Yellow, and at Mount Stewart, a deep blue-green covering the walls and ceiling of a guest bedroom called “Rome” became, simply, Rome.
It is these little connections that make paint colors so interesting to me. A blue is no longer simply a blue when you know it once sat on Churchill’s palette, nor is a pink quite the same once you have seen where it lived on the staircase of an English country house. That sense of history, of taking a color from one place and time and allowing it to live again somewhere entirely new, is perhaps what I love most about these new additions to Little Greene.
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x Natalie
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