London:
Breakfast at Designers Guild - John Derian Picture Book – Book Signing. The last stop of John Derian’s Picture Book
(Artisan) European book signing event was held at a breakfast during London
Design Festival week, at Designers Guild. The John Derian Picture Book takes
center stage in the window of Designers Guild flagship King’s Road store, which
also carries a large selection of his decoupage household objects.
Designers
Guild - John Derian Picture Book
John
Derian is the legendary decoupage artist and curator of antiques who is based in
New York City’s East Village, where in 1989 he started his eponymous company.
John Derian Picture Book
The
John Derian Picture Book, (Artisan) encases the most iconic; most
quintessential and delightful images that are featured in his covetable range
of objects. The book is culled from the
thousands of images that have appeared in his biannual collections, an astoundingly
beautiful assortment of more than 400 full-bleed images in their original form.
From intensely colored flowers and birds to curious portraits, hand-drawn
letters, and breathtaking landscapes.
Designers
Guild - John Derian
John Derian transforms printed images from the past from illustrations, etchings,
chromolithographs, rare reproductions and other printed matter to create a new
visual language beloved by collectors and the curious alike.
John
Derian and Tricia Guild
Photograph
by Stephen Kent Johnson
“John Derian’s deep curiosity about life speaks to our own,
whereby everything that’s sold by him is rich in fragments of the past, of a
history that evokes, well, what?”
Anna
Wintour writes in the forward to the luxurious extra-large John Derian Picture
Book. Pouring over the book is like following the artist into a dusty corner of
an antique bookstore and uncovering a treasure.
Designers
Guild – Flowers
Florist
Juliet Glaves home grows her flowers in the English countryside
Photograph
by Stephen Kent Johnson
“I have always been inspired by the natural world, and the
beauty and charm of fine-etched and hand-colored images I discovered became a
way for me to express that interest. In 1989, I began using these images to
create decoupage (the art of decorating objects with paper cutouts), and
quickly found that it was a way for me to combine my childhood love of making
things with imagery that speaks to my aesthetic sensibility.”
John
Derian
Cool
Hunting Video Presents: John Derian
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John
Derian and Tricia Guild
Tricia Guild is the
founder and Creative Director of Designers Guild, she is known for her bold and
original fabric and wallpaper collections and her work as a designer and
manufacturer on a range of home interior products.
Above. Tricia Guild -
Colour Deconstructed – Quadrille Publishing Ltd.
Designers
Guild - John Derian Picture Book
Book Signing
Breakfast
Blueberry
Compote Yoghurt and Crunchy Pistachio Muesli
Peach
and Raspberry Fruit Salad
Apple
and Elderflower Juice
Viennoiserie
Jeannette Farrier
with her designed Kantha bedspreads - quilts of recycled stitched cotton rags