Saturday, August 25, 2007

Florence Broadhurst




In the weekend supplement to my paper I found this intriguing feature article about the eccentric designer Florence Broadhurst. I had seen a lot of her lovely wallpapers before, but I never knew her story. Apparently there's controversy regarding whether she actually did design the patterns herself and then there's her murder... "Florence Broadhurst Her Secret & Extraordinary Lives" by Helen O'Neill is said to be a captivating read. Plus it's also won design awards. I will place my book order with Amazon today!

For more of her patterns and fantastic patterned products (oh, the bags.. and the bedlinen!) see Signatureprints.

3 comments:

lookwhaticando said...

Amazing...I will be buying this asap. xoxo Thanks

Francesca said...

i love florence broadhurst too.

Shona~ LALA dex press said...

Thank you for the comment about my mistranslation of "You Are My Favorite Person" in postcard form. I actually used all the misprints as scrap + have reprinted the entire lot with the help of a nice ladt in Oslo. The new ones will be available in my Etsy shop on Sun Sept. 2nd, but unfortunately I have no more of the misprints.