As interior designers based in the Cotswolds, we’re blessed with a wonderful choice of suppliers for our furnishings and home accessories. From local craftsmen to contemporary designers to curators of fabulous vintage items, here are ten of our favourites.
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FABRICS AND WALLPAPER
Rapture & Wright
Rapture & Wright offer great contemporary fabrics and wallpaper screens, printed to order from an old cow shed in Gloucestershire. The colours are absolutely perfect for Cotswold homes.
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FABRICS AND WALLPAPER
Lewis & Wood
Based in an old mill in Stroud valley, we love the contemporary twist on classic, Oriental and African designs that Lewis & Wood give to fabrics and wallpapers. They also offer unique wide width wallpapers with huge prints, which still look good in cottages. The linen quality is superb.
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FABRICS AND WALLPAPER
Vanessa Arbuthnott
Offering a very wide collection of fabrics, wallpapers and furniture, we often use them as a trade supplier for our projects. The colours tend to be soft and the styles have country or midcentury flavours. They have a recently-opened shop in Cirencester.
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FURNITURE
Tamarisk Designs
Tamarisk Designs are a trade-only supplier so we will often take our clients along to their local showroom to try their furniture for size. We frequently use their chairs, sofas and corner groups – classic yet very comfy!
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FURNITURE
Tom Faulkner
They have a showroom in London but a factory in Swindon, so they count as local! Very elegant handmade furniture in steel, bronze, stone, wood and glass: great statement pieces.
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FURNITURE
Scumble Goosie
A quite unique supplier in Stroud valley, Scumble Goosie offer bespoke and ready-to-paint furniture and accessories, mostly based on 18th Century Gustavian & French designs with slight Shaker twists. We find them great for useful, inexpensive things like radiator covers and bedside tables.
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FURNITURE
Uptec
We love this small, family run business near Winchcombe. As an upholsterer, sofa and chair manufacturer they are very accommodating for one-off pieces (like the one above) and always a pleasure to work with.
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LIGHTING AND ACCESSORIES
Pooky Lights
For designer lighting Pooky are hard to beat, offering a very wide range of beautiful, contemporary table lamps, pendant lights, floor lamps and lampshades. Their main showroom is in London but they also have a warehouse and showroom in Andoversford, Glos.
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LIGHTING AND ACCESSORIES
Walcot House – Designer Curtain Poles
Walcot House offer beautifully-engineered designer curtain poles in very sleek, contemporary finishes. We love their unique finials – just the kind of detail that really lifts an interior scheme.
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LIGHTING AND ACCESSORIES
Sarah Field Ceramics
We love Sarah’s hand-thrown porcelain tableware: really pretty colours and shapes. Her studio is near Cirencester and is highly recommended.
