PRIVATE TOUR OF TIMOROUS BEASTIES' GLASGOW STUDIO AND TWO CUSHIONS
COURTESY OF PAUL SIMMONS
£600
Auction: 22 November 2023 from 11:00 GMT
Description
Enjoy an exclusive private tour of Timorous Beasties' studio and print room in Glasgow with Paul Simmons, Timorous Beasties co-founder and director. The tour will start in the design studio, before heading down to the print room where guests can see Timorous Beasties iconic designs being hand-printed. It will culminate in ‘The Shed’- the trade showroom where finished designs can be viewed in curated room sets. Guests will then be allowed to take home two Napoleon Bee cushions in black (the retail value of each cushion is £135).
The tour would be available weekdays within working hours (10am-4pm). To be booked in advance.
Footnote
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Noted for surreal and provocative textiles and wallpapers, the design studio, Timorous Beasties, was founded in Glasgow in 1990 by Paul Simmons and Alistair McAuley, who met studying textile design at Glasgow School of Art. The name ‘Timorous Beasties’ is taken from the poem ‘To a Mouse’ by Scotland’s much celebrated poet, Robert Burns.
In 2004 they unveiled their critically acclaimed Glasgow Toile: by reversing the pastoral context of toiles de Jouey, the studio transformed the traditional toile device to create an exclusively modern urban genre. The Hotch Blotch fabric series challenges a 1000-year old aesthetic mode by placing disorder within the structure of damask pattern to reveal the inherent beauty of splatters, drips and blotches. Hunting Toile and Urban wallpapers mark a synthesis of 18th-century chinoiserie groupings, Rococo swirls, and Victorian silhouette paper cuts to create a uniquely contemporary ornamental textiles pattern repeat.
The art critic John Ruskin related a universal connection between nature, art and society. Timorous Beasties share a similar world view, where plants, animals and society are visually inextricable. They are devoted to how that impacts as pattern design in our daily experience of furnished spaces, from one-bedroom flats to country villas, to the halls of civic and government buildings, departure lounge backdrops, boutique enclaves, restaurants, and hotels.
Timorous Beasties have collaborated with likes of Nike, The Wellcome Trust, Kate Bush, Fortnum & Mason, Famous Grouse, Netjets, Penguin Books and many more.