Sanderson Design Group
The Sanderson Design Group brings six British houses together: Sanderson, Morris & Co, Zoffany, Harlequin, Clarke & Clarke and Scion, from royal-warrant florals to Scion's joyful prints.
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Six British houses
The Sanderson Design Group brings together six of the best-known names in British decoration. At its heart is Sanderson itself, founded in London in 1860 and holder of a Royal Warrant since 1924, which took Morris & Co under its wing in 1940, and with it the work of William Morris.
Around those two heritage houses sit Zoffany, born from the restoration of historic wallpapers; Harlequin, the colourist, founded in 1960; Clarke & Clarke, the great collaborator, founded in 1999; and Scion, the joyful and more affordable youngest, created in 2012. Six very different characters, one archive of remarkable depth, and here, for the first time, all six side by side.
The most English house of all
Sanderson
Sanderson's hand-drawn botanicals and blowsy florals, its birds and trailing leaves, came to define a gentle, countryside-inflected Englishness that has never really gone out of style.
The firm has supplied the Royal Residences since 1924, and today its archive runs to some seventy thousand designs and printing blocks.
Highgrove Fabric
Curios Fabric
Country Woodland Fabric
It is as close as Britain has to a national housestyle, on the walls of cottages and palaces alike.
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Islay Wools Fabric
Water Garden Fabric
Embleton Bay Fabric
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Sanderson: The Most English House of All
For more than a century and a half, Sanderson has been the very definition of English style, royal warrant and all. Which makes it all the more delicious that it began by importing French wallpaper.
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Lakeland Paradis Giles Deacon Poppinjay and Lion Wallpaper£136.00£93.84 a roll -
Tansy Bloom Giles Deacon Atlantis Wallpaper£168.00£115.92 a roll
Beauty, made properly
Morris & Co
William Morris founded the firm in 1861 on a then-heretical idea: that things should be made properly, by hand, and that beauty was not a luxury for the rich but something everyone deserved.
His patterns were drawn from close observation of the garden and the hedgerow. The firm passed to Sanderson in 1940, and the group still guards Morris's original logbooks.
Queen Square Wallpaper
Archive Weaves Fabric
Bedford Park Fabric
His patterns were never invented so much as observed, which is why they have never once looked dated.
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Lethaby Fabric
Rouen Velvets Fabric
The Unfinished Works Wallpaper
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William Morris: The Revolutionary Who Wallpapered Britain's Drawing Rooms
Britain's most beloved heritage patterns were designed by a fire-breathing socialist who despised cheap mass production and believed beauty should belong to everyone. More than 160 years on, William Morris feels less like history than prophecy.
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Laceflower Bedford Park Wallpaper£136.00£93.84 a roll -
Laceflower Bedford Park Wallpaper£136.00£93.84 a roll
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St Johns The Unfinished Works Sussex Rush£72.00£49.68 a roll -
Wild Tulip & Vine The Unfinished Works Rose/Linen Wallpaper£154.00£106.26 a roll -
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The painter's eye
Zoffany
Zoffany is named after Johan Zoffany, court painter to George III, whose conversation pieces recorded the richly furnished rooms of his day in exquisite detail.
The company began in the early 1980s with an act of rescue, recreating lost historic wallpapers from surviving fragments, and that refinement runs through its damasks, velvets and painterly prints today.
Arcadian Thames Fabric
The Muse Wallpaper
Arden by Melissa White Pewter Fabric
Zoffany began by bringing lost wallpapers back from fragments. Refinement is in its blood.
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Phaedra Fabric
Icons Fabric
Suffolk Damasks and Stripes Fabric
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Zoffany: The Painter's Eye
Named after a court painter who adored a beautifully appointed room, and born from the painstaking business of rescuing lost wallpapers, Zoffany brings a connoisseur's eye, and an unrivalled command of colour, to the wall.
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Kanoko Kensington Walk Copper Fabric£122.00£84.18 a metre -
Akaishi Kensington Walk Wallpaper£106.00£73.14 a metre
A coat of many colours
Harlequin
Founded in 1960, Harlequin has always been the bold, contemporary one of the family: quick to seize on a new idea, among the first in the industry to embrace digital printing, and never happier than with a full and fearless palette.
It treats colour quite seriously, as one of the most powerful tools in decorating, bound up with mood and with the way we live.
Signature Wallpaper
Harlequin X Henry Holland Fabric
Zamora Wallpaper
The word harlequin came to mean, simply, many-coloured. The brand has spent decades living up to it.
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Momentum 9 Fabric
Akari Weaves Fabric
Zapara Fabric
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Harlequin: A Coat of Many Colours
Named after a theatrical trickster in a costume of patchwork diamonds, Harlequin has made colour its life's work. After a long grey decade, that turns out to be exactly what our walls were waiting for.
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Elsworthy Henry Holland Moss Wallpaper£122.00£84.18 a roll -
Blenets Check Harlequin X Henry Holland Chocolate Fabric£84.00£57.96 a metre -
Marble Harlequin X Henry Holland Oatmeal Fabric£80.00£55.20 a metre
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Atoll Bronze Sailcloth Fabric£62.00£42.78 a metre -
Gorgonian Espresso Positar Fabric£100.00£69.00 a metre
The great collaborator
Clarke & Clarke
Founded in 1999 by Emma and Julian Clarke in the north west of England, Clarke & Clarke grew into one of the country's most widely used design houses on a refreshingly unstuffy idea: stylish, versatile and good value.
It collaborates like no one else, from an affordable range of William Morris designs to the hand-drawn lynxes and fantastical jungles of Emma J Shipley.
Indira Wallpaper
Emma J Shipley Indoor Outdoor Wild Escape Fabric
Elements Fabric
Clarke & Clarke's gift is a democratic one: take something covetable, and put it within reach.
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Northwood Fabric
William Morris Designs Fabric
Prince of Persia Fabric
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Clarke & Clarke: The Great Collaborator
Founded by a husband and wife in 1999, Clarke & Clarke has become one of Britain's most versatile interiors names by mastering a single, generous trick: taking covetable design and putting it within everyone's reach.
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Willow Boughs William Morris Designs Wallpapers By Clarke & Clarke£66.00£45.54 a roll -
Strawberry Thief William Morris Designs Wallpapers By Clarke & Clarke£66.00£45.54 a roll -
Strawberry Thief Jacquard William Morris Weaves Teal Fabric£40.00£27.60 a metre
The joyful house
Scion
Scion is the joyful, more affordable house of the family: bright colour, playful pattern and cheerful checks and stripes, at prices that make it easy to change a room on a whim.
Created in 2012 on the simple idea that interiors need not be serious to be good, its designs are drawn by a small studio in Leicestershire and printed in the factory next door.
Swithland Embroidery, Oakham
Pomona
Central Checks & Stripes
The word scion means a young shoot. It is the perfect name for the cheerful youngest of a grand old design family.
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Dancing Daisies, Oakham
Pomona
Oakham Embroidery, Oakham
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Scion: Here Comes Mr Fox
The word scion means a young offshoot, and that is exactly what this is: the cheerful youngest of a grand British design family, with a grinning fox for a mascot and no interest whatsoever in taking itself too...
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Twycross Oakham Linen Wallpaper£76.00£52.44 a roll -
Oakham Embroidery Mushroom Fabric£48.00£33.12 a metre
