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Every piece Soane creates, whether furniture, lighting or fabrics, holds a story, from its historic design influences to meticulous manufacturing by our skilled British craftsmen. At Soane we thrive on exchanging these stories – they capture our imaginations and enrich our daily lives. The Journal offers an opportunity to take these conversations further and delve into other subjects that excite and inspire us. We warmly invite you to share in our musings
Lulu Lytle
Founder & Creative Director
Originating in Moorish Spain, these albarello jars with their bright decoration and elegant waisted forms arrived in Italy in the fifteenth century and were extensively produced there for three centuries. The name may derive from the Latin for ‘white’ (albus), perhaps because the jar would be covered with white parchment, tied around the neck to seal it. While many, especially the earliest designs, were decorated with graceful floral patterns, as they made their way to Italy they began to feature figurative paintings of gods or men, and some even depicted, rather graphically, the administration of the remedy contained within.
Soane’s new collection with Sophie Coryndon is full of patterns that were once in the background–one comes from the background of a medieval painting, another from a sixteenth-century funeral pall. The simple blue and gold botanical pattern on an albarello jar was the inspiration for the ‘Albarello’ print fabric, on which linear floral forms scroll their way downwards with effortless regularity. The ‘Ink’ colourway of the fabric imitates the original, while the fabric in ‘Apothecary Green’ has a spring-like freshness. The same pattern has also been applied to Soane’s new ‘Vetiver’ table lamp, which, along with five other painterly patterns inspired by albarelli, is at the heart of the new collection. Each lamp is named after a herb that once formed part of the apothecary’s store cupboard, many of which, in fact, are still in use today.
From second gallery left to right: The Apothecary Table Lamp – Vetiver; The Apothecary Table Lamp – Vinca; Sophie Coryndon hand paiting The Apothecary Table Lamps; Sophie Coryndon hand signing The Apothecary Table Lamp; Albarello in Apothecary Green by Sophie Coryndon for Soane Britain; Albarello in Ink by Sophie Coryndon for Soane Britain
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