A Private View - Tapa dura

Tricia Guild's status as a designer is legendary. Her company Designer's Guild sells collections of her fabrics, paints, wallpaper, and furnishings all over the world. Here, in this truly personal book, Tricia reveals the many sources of her inspiration and gives an insight into the way she works. Her passions are many and various: art and music; architecture and design; theatre and opera; novels and poetry; food; flowers and gardening; the broad sweep of landscape and the miraculous minutiae of nature; texture and form; light and shadow; and above all, colour. This wonderful and eclectic mix of inspirations from all walks of life, and all corners of the world is presented as a collection of photographs and text grouped together, or juxtaposed, to form a dazzling, thought-provoking cornucopia of visual and literary delights to stir her many fans.

Tricia Guild founded Designers Guild in London in 1970. The company has achieved international renown for its innovative fabrics, wallpaper, and home furnishings, which are available in more than 40 countries worldwide. Tricia has sat on the Craft Council and is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Art. Her books have been translated into more than 10 languages and published throughout the world. They include Tricia Guild on Colour, Painted Country, Tricia Guild in Town, Cut Flowers, and White Hot. Her last book Think Pink has sold over more than 100,000 copies worldwide.