Tricia Guild

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Tricia Guild (* 20th century ) is a British interior designer and the founder of the Designers Guild , an international furnishing and lifestyle company with its headquarters in London.

Tricia Guild is known for her unusual and eclectic color and pattern compositions for home textiles and wallpaper collections. She is the holder of the Order of the British Empire .

Life

Tricia Guild holds degrees from the Royal College of Art , Winchester School of Art and Loughborough University . She founded the Designers Guild in 1970 while looking for home textiles. Her first collection was born when she was re-dyeing a range of textiles with Indian motifs. She opened her shop on King's Road in 1972 , where she also sold ceramics and furniture, among other things. From 1974 she worked with artists such as Kaffe Fassett , Lilian Delavoryas, Janice Tchalenko and others, and in the 1980s the company, of which Tricia Guild is creative director, gained fame.

The collections evolved from floral to abstract and Indian-influenced motifs, where intense colors predominate. In the 1990s, Tricia Guild focused on promoting the Designers Guild outside of the UK and overseas. Further sales offices with showrooms were opened in Paris, Milan and Munich (Designers Guild Einrichtungs GmbH). In addition to its own brand, Designers Guild also sells home collection products from The Royal Collection, Christian Lacroix , William Yeoward and Ralph Lauren to the specialist and retail trade . Tricia Guild has also published numerous books on interior design . Tricia is married with one daughter and lives in Notting Hill .

company

Today's range on King # s Road includes home textiles and wallpapers, furniture, bed linen, room fragrances, accessories for bathrooms and ceramics for the kitchen. In 1985 sales were £ 3m and in 2008 it was over £ 43m, with over 250 employees working in branches in London, Paris, Munich and Milan. Designers Guild exports its goods to over 60 different countries and won the Queen's Award for Export Achievement in 1991 and 1996.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1989 Textile Institute Gold Medal
  • 1993 Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Art in London
  • 1993 Honorary Master of Arts Degree from the Winchester School of Art
  • 1994 winner of the European Community Design Prize
  • 1995 'Excellence de la Maison' for bed linen, awarded by Marie Claire magazine
  • 1996 Home Tex Design Award, USA
  • 1999 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Technology, Loughborough University
  • 2002 Elle Decoration International Design Award for Best Fabric Design
  • 2003 Elle Decoration award for Best wallpaper USA
  • 2007 The Homes & Gardens Classic Design Award for Lifetime Achievement
  • 2008 Pricewaterhouse Coopers Profit Track 100 for the fastest growing company in Great Britain: Designers Guild came in 22nd
  • 2008 Microsoft award for Best Use of Technology
  • 2008 Freshest New Website Award

Publications

  • 1982 Soft Furnishings
  • 1986 Designing with Flowers
  • 1988 Design and Detail
  • 1989 Design and Garden
  • 1990 Tricia Guild New Soft Furnishing
  • 1992 Tricia Guild on Color
  • 1994 Tricia Guild's Painted Country
  • 1996 Tricia Guild in Town
  • 1998 Cut Flowers
  • 1999 White Hot
  • 2002 Think Pink
  • 2004 Private View
  • 2006 pattern
  • 2008 Flowers

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personal data
SURNAME Guild, Tricia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British interior designer, founder of the Designers Guild
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century