de Gournay in 1986, sparking a renaissance in chinoiserie pattern. The company’s delicate, traditionally inspired designs, hand-painted and embroidered on to wallcoverings, fabrics, tableware and lamps, remain sought-after as signifiers of high interior style.Growing up, Gurney, now 35, who is head of global marketing and development at de Gournay, was immersed in this fantastical decorative world.
She recalls the wonder of the pictorial scenes that covered the three-storey staircase in her childhood family home. ‘Anywhere you stopped, you found something new,’ she says.
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