Deco mag Spring '17 issue

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News
Kebony in Global CleanTech top 100
Ikea collaborates with Piet Hein Eek
Kebony, the Norwegian
company that ‘turns’ softwood
into hardwood using an
agricultural biowaste
product, has been named in
the 2017 Global Cleantech
100, produced by US
Cleantech Group. GCG
monitors emerging clean tech
trends, top innovation
companies and key players
in sustainable innovation.
How Leeds Castle influenced the
interior design of The White House
Ikea has launched a limited edition collection inspired by
Indonesian and South East Asian design in collaboration
with Dutch eco designer Piet Hein Eek.
The vibrant, colourful Jassa range, available from March,
brings traditional techniques to the mass market, blending
sustainability with inspiring design and functionality. All
products in the collection are made from sustainable,
renewable materials include bamboo, seagrass, rattan,
water hyacinth and Better Cotton Initiative cotton. And they’re
not machine-made; rather the natural material parts of each
piece are hand-made using traditional techniques, hence
each item is unique.
Aboriginal art inspires wallpaper collection
Glos-based Bay Gallery
Home specialises in original
Aboriginal art and it’s
produced My Country, a range
of homewares inspired by
the art, with profits from sales
going back to local artists in
Australia’s Northern Territory.
My Country products are
made in collaboration with UK
manufacturers and include
wallpapers, rugs and tiles
which feature ancient
designs and motifs. Pictured
right is uncoated Pink
Wallpaper (£76.80 per 10.5m
roll) which depicts the land
during the dryer seasons
when only the hardiest bushes
and trees are still visible.
If you’ve seen the film
Jackie, you may be interested
to know that the interiors at
Leeds Castle in Kent
influenced the design of
rooms at the White House;
and that John F Kennedy
was a house party guest at
the castle in 1938 when he
was 21.
Leeds Castle was owned
from the early 1930s to her
death in 1974 by Olive, Lady
Baillie, an Anglo-American
heiress. She refurbished the
castle over several decades,
working closely with French
interior designer Stephane
Boudin of decorators Jansen.
Fast forward to the
early ‘60s and it was
Boudin who worked with
Jackie Kennedy on restyling
the White House from 1961-
63. The state and ground
floor rooms borrowed
details from previous Boudin
commissions including the
library and dining room of
Leeds Castle, serving as
inspiration for their White
House counterparts.
In Jackie, Natalie Portman’s
Mrs Kennedy speaks of the
‘historical significance of
objects and artefacts,
perhaps more so than
humans, for standing the
test of time, for their beauty
and style. It is through redecoration
[of the White
House interiors] that we
are able to meet the figures
that shaped our history.’
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