Sophie Allport – Designer Focus

Sophie Allport Designer Focus. Sophie was born and raised in rural Lincolnshire where she developed her love for the countryside, within a couple of years of her graduation, with a degree in graphic design and illustration, she was showing her first illustrations at London's Country Living Fair.

In 2007 she founded her online business with her brother Jem, and within 10 years they had their first brick & mortar shop in Stamford, Lincolnshire close to the home of the business and where Sophie, inspired by her love of nature, creates and paints all of her company's elegant product designs. The brand has quickly gained a following to become a firm British favourite.

The business today produces a diverse range of  products from fine bone china which is made and hand finished in Stoke-on-Trent, to kitchenware, stationery, homeware, gifts and of course,  bedding sets

We are delighted to be stocking some of Sophie's fabulous designs, our full range of Sophie Allport bedding sets can be found here or click on the images below.

Sophie Allport Bees bedding sets, featuring stylish bee motifs on a soft duck egg background. Matching granite throw and feather filled cushion also available.

Sophie Allport Flamingos bedding has fun flamingo illustrations which highlight the elegant long necks and quirky shapes of this beautiful ballerina bird. The punchy pink hues of the watercolor flamingo motifs against the optic white base will add a fresh and feminine looks to your room.

Sophie Allport Hares bedding featuring racing hares on a white/natural background. This fabulous range includes a matching throw and a Chase Your Dreams cushion available to buy seperately.

Sophie Allport On Safari Bedding Sets. Elephants, giraffes, wildebeests, warthogs, zebras and rhinos all feature on this imaginative printed bedding. Sophie Allport’s hand painted safari motifs were inspired by her childhood holidays to Africa visiting family and will bring the animal kingdom adventures to your bedtime stories.

Sophie Allport Peacock bedding sets. Distinguished by their prominent plumage of feathers, Sophie’s elaborate illustrations on the elegant bedding express the majesty of the peacock and their boastful eye-shaped markings. The clean white 200TC cotton is the perfect base for the iridescent colouring on each bird which rolls from vibrant hues of indigo into shades of emerald, turquoise and aqua blues.

Matching Peacock navy feather filled cushion in luxurious velvet with contrast piping in turquoise. 100% Polyester.

Sophie Allport Sheep bedding sets. Inspired by the flocks of sheep in the fields surrounding Sophie Allport’s home in Lincolnshire, this super soft brushed cotton bedding will send you straight into your dreams in style…with no need for counting those sheep! Sophie has captured the fun and playful characters in her design which features some of Britain’s oldest, native breeds such as the Suffolk and the Jacob.

Matching feather filled ‘Counting Sheep’ cushion features various traditional sheep breeds including the Suffolk, Scottish Black Face and Jacob on a super cosy oatmeal base. Can you spot the baby black lamb?

Inspired by man’s best friend, this beautiful Sophie Allport Woof bedding is for everyone who loves dogs! Sophie Allport’s hand painted motifs of dachshunds, springer spaniels, cocker spaniels, black labrador’s, pugs, jack russels and fox red labradors, create the perfect cosy bedroom setting, on 200 thread count cotton base.

NEW for 2020! We have 3 fantastic new ranges of bedding: Coastal Birds, ZSL Elephant & Unicorn. all now available to view here.

Riva Paoletti – Designer Focus

We’re delighted to be now stocking the latest Christmas designs from Riva Paoletti. Founded in 1973, Riva Paoletti is a family owned business who started by supplying curtains to local independent shops. Fast forward to 2019 and the company is now in its second generation and sells to businesses throughout the UK, Europe and beyond.

The company now supplies over 5,000 products including bedding, cushions, curtains, blinds and accessories to independent shops, department stores and online retailers like us! From its base in Leeds, West Yorkshire, the company’s in house designers produce their most innovative designs. As well as producing high quality products under the Paoletti banner, the company also creates products under the brand Furn.

Our fabulous new Christmas designs are the Scandinavian inspired Woodland brushed cotton flannelette bedding sets in grey and wildberry red. Featuring an intricate design of woodland animals and branches, this bedding is perfect for keeping you cosy in the winter months. The reverse of the duvet cover features a simple stripe design. Each duvet features a secure button closure. The single duvet set includes 1 matching housewife pillowcase with the double, king and super king duvet sets including 2 housewife pillowcases.

Also available, we have the fun Nutcracker duvet cover set which will certainly get you in the mood for the Christmas season. A charming and whimsical hand-painted design inspired by folklore tales, including iconic Nutcracker soldiers, dancing ballerinas and musical instruments and, the Festive Town duvet cover set. This has images of snow topped roofs and town houses, majestic Christmas trees, and streets lined with garlands and fairy lights and a teal blue snowflake and star reverse.

Starting at just £19.99 for the single duvet cover set, the full range is available to view and buy here.

View all our Christmas bedding here.

festive town christmas duvet cover set by paoletti
nutcracker christmas duvet set by paoletti
skandi woodland grey christmas bedding
skandi woodland red duvet set paoletti

Orla Kiely – Designer Focus

Orla Kiely (pronounced Kylie) credits her grandmother as being the creative influence as she grew up and her father for buying her a sewing machine when she was 12.

After qualifying as a textile designer at Dublin’s National College of Art and Design she moved to New York where she worked in fabric and wallpaper design. She then went on to study for a Masters at London’s Royal College of Art. The hats that she designed for her exit show at the RCA were later purchased by Harrods but despite this, went onto start designing her own range of handbags when her father noted that everyone had a handbag but no one was wearing a hat.

In the late 90’s she developed handbag designs using laminated fabrics. In 1997 went on to form the Orla Kiely Partnership with her husband Dermott Rowan. In an interview Dermott explained “Nothing was planned, the whole thing started by accident. Orla was consulting for other companies and designing her own collection at the weekend, which she would give to me to organise. We had this chaotic situation where deliveries of her designs would come into our apartment and if I didn’t get them out by 5pm, there was nowhere to sit!”. The business was an immediate success.

She has been widely recognised for her contribution to design, including an honorary degree from the University of Creative Arts in 2014. Followed by an honorary fellow of the British Institute of Design in 2015 and she was awarded the title of Visiting Professor of Textiles at the Royal College of Art alongside being made a Senior Fellow in 2016.

Kiely has been described as the “Queen of Prints’ by The Guardian and her designs have been used on a wide variety of objects including kitchenware, stationery, furniture, bedding, wallpaper, home accessories and curtains. The popular multi stem design has even been used on the back of a London bus.

She has also written two books. ‘Pattern‘, published in 2017 in which she talks about growing up and the influences on her work today & ‘A Life in Pattern’ where she shares the full range of patterns and designs created since starting her business in the 1990’s.

Loving Orla Kiely? So do we! You can see our range of Orla Kiely products here.

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Orla Kiely Wild Daisy Bedding
Orla Kiely Placement Flower