Anna French Fabric
In 1976 a young English designer named Anna French left London with her husband John for a disused Victorian lace mill in Scotland, and set about making lace. Scottish lace remains in the collection to this day, and that beginning explains everything that followed: a fineness of line, a lightness of touch and a fondness for the motif that only reveals itself on closer inspection. Anna French now belongs to Thibaut, the oldest wallpaper house in America, and within that stable it is the romantic, the one with the English accent and the lighter hand.
Delicacy is what Anna French has always done best, from the fine leaf trail to the sprigged floral and the botanical drawn with a botanist's patience. Antilles is one of the collections our customers love most, blending 18th-century French Provincial designs with historic reproductions of Indian Indiennes, inspired by the islands' agricultural heritage and the legacy of indigo cultivation. Manor shows a bolder European elegance, with opulent prints, intricate embroideries and decorative weaves in jewel tones such as fuchsia and sapphire alongside taupe and charcoal grey.
The newest arrival is Clermont, which takes its cue from the French countryside with floral motifs, organic block prints and palampore styles. Soft, pretty and quietly characterful, these fabrics feel gathered from a French farmhouse yet sit beautifully in modern homes. Belvedere conjures the romance of a garden estate, with silk blends, jacquard wovens and rich embroideries, large-scale paisleys and delicate trellis prints. Camelot marks the debut of woven upholstery by Anna French, with moirés, medallions and dramatic embroideries drawn from legendary tales.
The range is completed by Savoy, Palampore, Nara, Meridian and Symphony, each offering pattern and texture to layer through a scheme. Many designs have a coordinating paper in the Anna French wallpaper range, so curtains, cushions and walls can be planned together.
To discover more about the house and its lace-mill beginnings, read our guide Anna French: The Nerve to Be Pretty.