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Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
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Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
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Today we travel with Megan Park to New Delhi and tour through some of the markets and delightful bead stalls. Megan also shows us some of the process behind designing the embroidery for her beautiful pieces. [Good luck tonight at LMFF Megan!] - Jenny x
Much of what we do comes alive when we are in India. Our company is unique for the reason that we spend and invest so much development time working at the source of where the collection comes together – namely New Delhi. I have been working with the same company to produce my collection since we began 15 years ago. I feel amazingly privileged to work alongside the artisans who produce our collection. They really are the most talented and highly skilled in their field.
When in Delhi I work intensively on the creation of the embroideries with each and every bead being instructed alongside our team of ‘kurigers’. Often I will arrive in Delhi with only a very loose idea of the direction of the collection however I immerse myself into the bead market for a day and collect kilos of beads and materials which I then in turn bring back to begin our creations.
Some embroideries will take more than a week to develop a tiny swatch but once I am satisfied with it there is nothing more satisfying than this process.
- Megan x
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