Quick Takes With: Lucy Bathurst

Currently we’ve been noticing the return of lace and eyelet in a manner that’s someway, in opposition to all odds, completely un-frilly. Living proof? The romantic but recent lace curtains by Nest Design, like these. See? We love the way in which they handle to really feel mushy however not fusty—and we will simply see how they’d elevate in an open window.

It’s in all probability helps that Nest Design’s strategy isn’t fussy, both. “I’ve at all times liked making issues, notably out of textiles, so after coaching as an inside designer I began Nest again in 2001,” writes founder Lucy Bathurst. “Since then, it’s grown from simply me in a basement to a crack staff of seamstress ninjas designing items for architects, motels, eating places and personal shoppers.”

Now these ninjas, and Lucy, work out of a transformed Mission Corridor in London the place they “concentrate on sourcing uncommon, pure, vintage, and hand-dyed materials,” stitching them into new headboards, curtains, cushions, and wall hangings that may be seen the world over.

As we speak Lucy writes in from London with the film bed room that impressed Nest HQ, her kitchen pet peeve, and the shocking colour she dyed her sheets. Learn on…

You’re invited to dinner. What’s your go-to reward?

Champagne, flowers, and cheese if it’s a simple dinner and one thing textile-y if it’s a housewarming. Relying on the tastes of the buddy, it is perhaps one thing classic that I feel they’d love, or possibly one in every of our handmade cushions.

What’s in your bedside desk?

Primarily books, a pleasant massive pile of them—which at the moment features a 1970’s E book of Dragons, Hettie Judah’s Lapidarium, and The Artistic Act by Rick Rubin. Oh, and a few peonies from the backyard.

What’s your desert island design/artwork/architecture-related e-book?

I’m undecided that it’s strictly talking any of the above, however Stephen Ellcock’s All Good Issues is completely chock filled with the very best sort of visible magic.

What podcast or playlist do you placed on once you want inspiration?

I like Jo Andrews’ Haptic & Hue podcast. It’s an enchanting and brilliantly researched exploration of all issues textile, and it by no means fails to remind me what a wealthy and diversified subject it’s and the way fortunate I’m to work in it.

What’s a movie or TV present whose aesthetic has caught with you?

I received somewhat bit obsessive about the bed room in Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favorite. To the extent that I made a decision I wanted to recreate it in brutalist kind right here at Nest’s HQ. The tip result’s actually reasonably pretty and never practically as bonkers because it sounds.