Nina Campbell Wallpaper
At nineteen, Nina Campbell went to work for John Fowler at Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, learning her trade from one of the great decorators of the twentieth century. Her confident colour sense caught the eye of Mark Birley, who asked her to redecorate Annabel's, and in 1970 the two opened a Chelsea shop of their own. Her wallpapers carry that same assurance: romantic, elegant and designed to sit with her fabrics.
Our bestselling collection is Signature, full of botanical and oriental pattern, from the woodland scene of Foret to the watercolour Toile Chinoise and the trailing bell flowers and fuchsias of Almora. Other favourites include Les Rêves, a Matisse inspired collection of award winning designs, and Honfleur, inspired by the towns, villages and gardens of the Normandy coast. Honfleur's La Quintinie is a modern toile of a garden scene, Les Saules a painterly weeping willow over a stream, and Fener Grove reprints one of her fabric designs directly onto natural sisal grasscloth.
The newest arrival is Dauphine, drawn almost entirely from the archive: Boscobel reimagines a 1930s chintz of roses and trumpet flowers, and Wisteria Walk hangs its blooms in loose painterly strokes. Fontibre takes its cue from the travels of her Victorian ancestor, with faux marble effects, a monkey toile, starbursts and a leafy trail, and Sylvana offers romantic companions to her recent fabrics.
For English country style, Ashdown is named after the Ashdown Forest in Sussex, and Woodsford after Woodsford Castle in Dorset, with hand painted effect designs. Rosslyn looks to the Scottish Highlands with trellises, ombre stripes and scrolling damask. Further afield, Les Indiennes recalls the seventeenth and eighteenth century French taste for East Indian textile patterns, Giverny is inspired by Monet's garden, Perroquet by the elegance of Paris with a hint of whimsy, Paradiso by Dante and Renaissance Florence, and Cathay by oriental design.
Read more in our guide, The Grand English Pattern Book of Nina Campbell, or see her garden toiles in context in The Story in the Cloth: The Case for Toile Wallpaper.
