Designer Tricia Guild talks about her new collection of fabrics.

Passing the gallery

A photo: Dmitry Livshits

Interview prepared: Dilara Muradova

Magazine: Decor N5 (94) 2005

The smiling woman behind the curtain is Trisha Guild. On the cover of the magazine, too, she, rather, her fabric, her decor, her bouquets. Trisha Guild - Head and creative director of the Designers Guild studio, founded by her 35 years ago. Author of more than ten books on the decor. Honorary Professor of many educational institutions, including the Royal College of Art. Winner of many awards, including the design award from the European Community. She also sits on the Council of Crafts, teaches, travels, decorates restaurants and bakeries of her husband (he is a famous London restaurateur) and manages with all this to produce two collections a year. Collections that have everything from fabrics and wallpaper to towels and accessories. They say, by the way, that the idea of ​​selling not individual items, but the “lifestyle” also belongs to her. Trisha Guild visited Moscow 17 years ago as part of a tourist group, and last March came again to the exhibition 100% Design, where she showed everything that the Designers Guild was rich in and gave an interview to our magazineSalon: The most vivid impression in your life? - India. Whatever I do, always think about her. It is possible that Moscow will have the same strong influence on me. Over the 17 years that have passed since my last visit, she has changed a lot.S: Your new collection is completely different from the previous one, and the previous one to the one that was before it. Not afraid that your booth will not know? “I just don't want to repeat myself.” What is the point that next season you will come and see all the same? Usually, spring-summer collections are fresher in color, and autumn-winter ones are quieter and more comfortable. Perhaps this is the only similarity.S: You brought a spring-summer collection to Moscow. What is she talking about? - There are many wonderful fabrics for the dining room and country house. The autumn-winter collection consisted of Damascus fabrics, we decided that the rustic theme would be a very good contrast to it (the new collection had already appeared in Moscow, in the salon Lege Alto. - SALON).S: Why suddenly country? Do you like living in the village? - I have a small villa in Italy. I love to live there. But not all the time. The city has its advantages - theaters, museums ...S: Do you have enough time for this? - I do not sit at work 24 hours a day. I go to the opera. I work in the garden. I communicate with my family. I visit museums. Traveling ...S: What does the house you live in look like? - This is a Victorian mansion with beautiful proportions, very modern inside. Observe this connection of the centuries: how old architecture interacts with the modern lifestyle.S: How does your husband feel about being a business woman? - By the way, get acquainted, this is my husband. Doesn't he look happy?S: Do you have children. Did their appearance affect your work? - When my daughter was born, I was only 18 years old. She appeared before I started working.S: You were one of the first to start making children's collections. Why? - In the 80s, I unexpectedly discovered how few beautiful children's things. It seemed to me terribly unfair, because children have a well-developed imagination, and everything they use should be special.S: Do you feel more like a designer or decorator? - I am a designer. My studio comes up with things, and people then use them to create their own decor. But lifestyle and design are interrelated. In books, stores, exhibitions, I show how it can be.S: Every time we meet you at the show, you are in black. And your fabrics are colored ... “What I’m wearing now is blue.” Well, dark blue. And in general, black is not the only color that I wear. It’s just that at exhibitions I’m often shot for different magazines. So you have to walk in black.Editorial staff thanks AVM company for help in arranging interviews