Tricia Guild

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Tricia Guild
Born
Patricia Denise Jeffreys

June 1946
Marylebone, London, England
Education
Children1 [1]

Patricia Denise Guild OBE (born 1946 [2] [3] ) is a British designer and the founder and Creative Director of Designers Guild an international home and lifestyle company. She is known for her fabric and wallpaper collections and her work as a designer and manufacturer on a range of home interior products. She was awarded an OBE for services to interior design in 2008. [3]

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Background

Born Patricia Denise Jeffreys (later Kaye) in Marylebone, Guild married her first husband Robin Guild (1939-2006) in 1969. [3] Some of her earliest memories are of gardening with her grandfather and these images inspire her floral works and design, reminding her of that early sense of wonder. She has degrees from the Royal College of Art, Winchester School of Art and Loughborough University. [4]

With Robin, Tricia Guild established Designers Guild, in 1970. The couple split in 1973, and she continued to run the company. [3] [5] By re-colouring a collection of Indian hand-block printed textiles, the first collection was established. She opened her store on the Kings Road, at the age of 22, with her first collection of fabrics, also selling ceramics and furniture. [6] In 1974 she started working with artists such as Kaffe Fassett and Lillian Delevoryas among others. Since 1986, her brother Simon Jeffreys has been a business partner in the company and Chief Executive. [4]

Throughout the 1990s Guild expanded her range as Designers Guild grew in the UK and overseas. The flagship store and showroom are on the Kings Road, London. In 1985 the company's turnover was £3.0m and in 2010 it had grown to over £50m [6] with over 250 staff and offices and showrooms in London, Paris, Munich, Milan and New York. [7] The company operates in over 80 countries. [8]

Guild received an honorary degree from the Royal College of Art in 1993. She was given an OBE for services to interior design in 2008. [9] [3] Various of Designers' Guild textiles are held by the V&A. [10]

Guild's second husband, the international restaurateur Richard Polo, died in 2019. [11] They lived together in Notting Hill and also owned Le Contesse, a home near Cetona in the Chianti region of Tuscany from 1988. The property, set on four acres of their land, was featured in several of her books. Polo is survived by Polo and Guild's daughter Lisa and their grand-daughter Lola. [12] [13]

Honours and awards

Books

Further reading

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References

  1. ↑ Blackburn, Janice (19 February 2020). "The Mistress of Modern Colour". The Eye Doesn't Life. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Tricia Guild". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish).
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1500 Designs from All Ages and Cultures (2018) Running Press, Elizabeth Wilhide p159
  4. 1 2 3 "Designer Profile: Tricia Guild" Homes & Gardens 17 December 2021
  5. ↑ Celebrity Gardeners: Tricia Guild's garden – Telegraph
  6. 1 2 Tricia Guild's top tips for inside your home – Telegraph
  7. ↑ "Designers Guild Opens New Showroom, Tabs Newman to Head Sales | Home Furnishings News".
  8. ↑ City Am 21 February 2020 "Designers Guild at 50"
  9. ↑ Colour crusader: How Tricia Guild become an interiors icon – Interiors – Property – The Independent
  10. ↑ "Tracer (Design Code F294/02)" Furnishing Fabric 1992 (made), V&A
  11. ↑ "Richard Polo obituary", The Times, 8 May 2019
  12. ↑ "Living", The Guardian, June 25 2006
  13. ↑ "Tuscany With a Designer’s Touch", New York Times. 30 January 2014
  14. 1 2 The Bruno Effect Magazine. "The legendary Tricia Guild reveals the secret to creating designs that thrill". 26 May 2022
  15. ↑ Homes and Gardens magazine, interior design ideas
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