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Rachel Carley Design

Pamela Cushion: Duncan Grant 30 x 60cm

$250.00

Pamela cushion: Duncan Grant
Pamela cushion: Duncan Grant
Pamela cushion: Duncan Grant

Rachel Carley Design

Pamela Cushion: Duncan Grant 30 x 60cm

$250.00

Pamela is a fabric design by Duncan Grant, dating from 1913 and originally produced for the Omega Workshops at 33 Fitzroy Square, London. Grant (1885-1978) was a key figure in the group of artists and designers known as Bloomsbury, that included Vanessa Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Clive Bell and Maynard Keynes. In 1913 Roger Fry established the Omega Workshops, directed by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant who, along with other artists produced furniture, pottery and textiles for sale.  The work produced challenged mainstream Edwardian aesthetic predilections. Fry said: "It is time that the spirit of fun was introduced into furniture and fabrics. We have suffered too long from the dull and stupidly serious." Clients included Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, HG Wells, EM Forster, Ottoline Morrell and Maud Cunard. Keen art collectors, notably Gertrude Stein, also frequented the Omega.

Grant’s work is showcased in the home he shared with Bell called Charleston near Firle, Sussex. Grant was a celebrated painter, set, costume and textile/object designer whose work was celebrated in a retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London in 1975. His Pamela fabric is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Please note: Photograph of cushion is a guide only. Due to the nature of the pattern repeat every cushion in this collection will be unique.

Dimensions

Cushion cover: 30cm x 60cm.

Includes feather inner: filling 100% Pure White Duck Feather

Product information and care instructions

Specifications

Pamela fabric: 65% Linen, 26% Cotton, 9% Nylon. (pattern repeat h=63cm) Backed by 100% linen fabric. Dry Clean only.

Shipping

Please allow 5 working days for delivery of your order.

Information on The Omega Workshops from Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-1919, The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London, June 18 – September 20 2009.