Vivienne Westwood Chooses Leeds Designers To Reveal New Print
Leeds based interior designers, Ben Huckerby Design, has announced an exclusive contract which will see them working in tandem with Vivienne Westwood to inject her signature designs into houses across the region.
The contemporary interior designers, who won an award at the Leeds Bar and Club Awards, for the design of Oracle in Leeds, has been hand picked to showcase the first interior collection by the iconic style queen.
Famous for being shocking, Westwood’s revival of tradional English tailoring with a twist is something that the team at Ben Huckerby Design have always admired, and the colaboration is expected to be a huge success.
Ben Huckerby said: “It’s an honour to be stocking the Vivienne Westwood wallpaper, she’s a style icon and we will take pride in mixing her paper with our designs to continue to create contemporary and luxurious interior schemes across the region.”
The new wallpaper, manufactured by top British company Cole & Son, has been produced in 12 different patterns by fashions most charming and eccentric designer. Ranging from her iconic ‘squiggle’ print as seen in her Autumn 1981/82 Pirate collection to ‘Insects’, based on Elizabeth I’s wardrobe; it’s the anarchy of print combined with Westwood’s vast fashion experience that makes for such an innovative collection.
One of the only Cole & Son stockists in Yorkshire, the interior designers behind Britain’s Best Home offer a flexible service from design through to full project management. Ben Huckerby, who showed his support for up coming talent by mentoring the winner of the Artsmix 2009 Emerging Artists Awards 2D category, also regularly writes interior columns in the national press.
Admiring the prints based on Westwood’s signature fashion collections so much , Ben decorated his whole home using the designs! This must-see wallpaper is available to view by appointment at the Ben Huckerby Design studio on Benson Street now.