IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN, for our yearly holiday sildeshows, which you love so, and this year, it’s snowy white trees adorned in pastel ornaments and toile-covered rooms with chic leopard print carpets, gifts wrapped in white and candlelight, firelight and mistletoe …
Animal print has been a part of fashion and décor for many years: well-travelled, worldly and exotic, it was a symbol of wealth and status. Fabrics with patterns and colours imitating the coats of animals were made fashionable as early as the eighteenth century, and it is thought that animal print became popular in the United States in the late 1960’s, during the Bohemian movement.
One of the key spaces in Peter Marino’s recently unveiled Dior store in London (above) is a magnificent light-filled double height space known as the winter garden. Adorning its walls is treillage or latticework which makes the space feel romantic and playful and gives that sense of being in a garden while being indoors.