Urban Inspiration

Last week I introduced you to our new Spring 2013 catalogue – I hope you have enjoyed thumbing through our new collections, exploring our brand new triptychs and fantastic statement pieces, and finding some treasures that you hope to use in your upcoming projects.

Martin Trowbridge is always attracted to an image with a story and we find that it’s always easier to sell your vision to your client if you have that little added something about the piece that they can relate to; be it the story of the photographer or designer who created the piece, the reason why a piece was drawn in a certain way or the theory behind the design of a collection. 

One such story comes straight from the bosom of the TROWBRIDGE family. 

Lucy Claw joined us last summer as a new member of our production team. Since she graduated in 2004 Lucy has been putting her degree in Textile and Surface Design to great use as a freelance designer producing fashion and interior works that have sold worldwide. Lucy is inspired by the urban world and her contemporary textiles begin life as sketches of her environment. Lucy has developed her own unique style of embellishment which sees her applying glossy textures, beautiful appliqué and hand-embroidered stitching to her wool and cashmere designs. 

TROWBRIDGE is very proud to present Lucy as our newest in-house textile designer and her beautiful leaf designs promise to be a great new addition to our successful botanical textile collection.

Lucy’s first collection for TROWBRIDGE is this restful set of four sycamore leaf designs in cool steel blue. Lucy has used lush velvets, felts and silks, embellishing them with appliqué and precise hand-embroidery. She has cleverly given depth to the piece by applying glossy textures to those leaves in the distance.

Lucy has promised us two further collections which I will be sure to show you as soon as they arrive.

Hope you enjoy her work,

Kelly