![]() As designers, we over-deliberate as to what to buy.' We went straight out and bought another one - otherwise nothing would have got done. The only thing we chucked was the oven that didn't work. 'The room, with its cottagey feel, was one of the main reasons why we bought the flat. 'The focus of our home is the kitchen, as we all love cooking,' says Sewell. She lives here with her partner, Andy Stevens, co-founder of hip graphic design company Graphic Thought Facility, and their daughters, Georgie, six, and Ruby, three. ![]() Yet the style of her home is more arty than architectural. Sewell admits her nerdy facility for mathematical precision probably stems from wearing a watch, as a child, whose face was divided into the golden section, a gift from her architect father. 'We are,' counters Wallace-Jones, before ribbing Sewell that her 'methodical' approach is 'spoddy', while her own is 'spontaneous'. 'We're not that different,' asserts Sewell. 'We design using our hand looms, but transcribe the pattern into the computer programme that controls the power looms at the mill.' Today, chatting in Sewell's Islington home, they can't quite agree on what their differences are. And last autumn they opened a shop in Islington, north London, with a studio equipped with two thrumming hand looms. But Wallace Sewell's wares now sell at Barneys Japan as well as New York, Liberty and London shops Gotham and Les Deux Zebres. The duo were taken by surprise when their products went down a storm at the Chelsea Crafts Fair, in 1992. And they're made from deluxe materials - anything from lustrous organza or mohair to nubbly chenille. ![]() Wallace Sewell's eye-catchingly gorgeous stripy or checked textiles come in colours that sing: zingy raspberry, turquoise, mint green, offset occasionally by subtler putty-coloured neutrals.
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