Timorous Beasties
Berkeley Blooms Midnight Oxford Pillowcase Pair

Description

Introducing the Timorous Beasties Berkeley Blooms Midnight Oxford Pillowcase Pair. A dense composition of colourful flowers forms the lush pattern of the Berkeley Blooms bedlinen. The intricately hand-drawn plants reference both the 1960s hippie movement in California and early Victorian engravings. The saccharine style of these familiar designs is given a contemporary twist, printed onto soft 220tc cotton sateen with the black background adding a dark intensity to the richly decorative pattern.

Discover the Timorous Beasties Berkeley Blooms Midnight Oxford Pillowcase Pair at Jones & Tomlin – an aesthetic evolution to time-honoured motifs

Timorous Beasties’ work embodies a unique diversity of pattern, ranging from design that echoes a golden age of copperplate engraving (a time-honoured classic is the Thistle range; or Merian Palm superwide wallpaper) to examples of a distinctly edgy nature, an elegant transgression, a display of chic irreverence. Yet, the studio fully engages a design discourse with textile's history by lending an aesthetic evolution to time-honoured motifs.

In 2004 Timorous Beasties unveiled their critically acclaimed Glasgow Toile: by reversing the pastoral context of toiles de Jouy, they transformed the traditional toile device to create an exclusively modern urban genre. The Hotch Blotch fabric series challenges a 1000-year old aesthetic mode by placing disorder within the structure of damask pattern to reveal the inherent beauty of splatters, drips and blotches. Hunting Toile and Urban wallpapers mark a synthesis of 18th-century Chinoiserie groupings, Rococo swirls and Victorian silhouette paper cuts to create a uniquely contemporary ornamental textiles pattern repeat. The art critic John Ruskin related a universal connection between nature, art and society. Timorous Beasties share a similar world view, where plants, animals and society are visually inextricable. They are devoted to how that impacts as pattern design in our daily experience of furnished spaces, from one-bedroom flats to country villas, to the halls of civic and government buildings, departure lounge backdrops, boutique enclaves, restaurants, and hotels.