Lewis and Wood, Rococo
Hand-painted at Melissa White Studio, Hastings
Client
Provenance
Lewis & Wood
2014
Date
Rococo is the companion design to Bacchus in the English Ethnic Collection, and the two could hardly be more different in character. Where Bacchus is a dense, scrolling multivine rooted firmly in the Elizabethan tradition, Rococo is something more unexpected: an unusual damask that pulls from two quite separate sources, Indian block printing and European Rococo ornament, and finds a point where they meet.
The collision of those two traditions produces something that is neither purely historic nor purely decorative. The mottled ground gives it the quality of age and surface that runs through all my work: the damask structure holds it in a formal register while the Indian references pull it somewhere more irregular and alive. It sits differently in a room than Bacchus: quieter, more rhythmic, but with the same sense of having been made by hand rather than resolved by software.
Available as a printed linen and as a wide-width wallpaper, the collection is made to order at Lewis & Wood's Cotswolds headquarters.
Rococo is available in multiple colourways and formats through
Lewis & Wood.
“Rococo is a collision of traditions, pulling from Indian block printing and European ornament. The mottled ground gives it the quality of age that runs through all my work ~ rhythmic and alive, with the sense of being made by hand rather than resolved by software.”