Well, the magnificent Christopher Farr has won my heart again. He has just produced a dynamite new line of wool and mohair rugs based on a selection of sketches done by Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and other key members of the Omega Workshops and Bloomsbury collective from 1912-1919. They feel incredibly fresh and current to me:
I wasn’t familiar with the Omega group and after seeing these rugs, I was hungry to learn more. Here’s the skinny from the folks at Christopher Farr:
Founded in 1913 by the painter and art critic Roger Fry, Omega Workshops was an English applied arts company based in London, which lasted until 1919. Aiming to improve the British taste in decorative arts, the company produced ceramics, furniture, carpets and textiles designed by Fry, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, who belonged to the circle of writers and artists known as Bloomsbury, and Henri Doucet, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Winifred Gill and Nina Hamnett. The name ‘Omega’, is thought to have been intended to suggest the last word in design, omega (the Workshop’s trademark) being the last letter of the Greek alphabet. In 1919 the Workshop closed.
And please enjoy some of the fabulous designs from Omega (all courtesy of the Courtauld Gallery, who has the largest collection of work from the Omega Workshops and with whom Mr. Farr collaborated on this project). This screen by Vanessa Bell is beyond…
Everything from the Bloomsbury group is tops on my list, the references for color and shape and texture in these rugs is just super…………they will sell like hotcakes. I would love to own one.Kathi
So cool! Love Bloomsbury (though I admit to being much more familiar with their literary figures than their artistic ones.)PS: Vanessa Bell was Virginia Woolf’s sister. Such talent in one family!
i know about the bell/woolf connection.
Everything from the Bloomsbury group is tops on my list, the references for color and shape and texture in these rugs is just super…………they will sell like hotcakes. I would love to own one.Kathi
So cool! Love Bloomsbury (though I admit to being much more familiar with their literary figures than their artistic ones.)PS: Vanessa Bell was Virginia Woolf’s sister. Such talent in one family!
i know about the bell/woolf connection.
Everything from the Bloomsbury group is tops on my list, the references for color and shape and texture in these rugs is just super…………they will sell like hotcakes. I would love to own one.Kathi
So cool! Love Bloomsbury (though I admit to being much more familiar with their literary figures than their artistic ones.)PS: Vanessa Bell was Virginia Woolf’s sister. Such talent in one family!
i know about the bell/woolf connection.