London-based decorative artist, designer, and printmaker Ellen Merchant and lighting brand Pooky share a few key sensibilities – namely, a love of color, craftsmanship, and a perennial sense of play. It’s why they’ve come back together for a third collaboration, this time on a series of handmade lampshades in lively botanical prints inspired by the shades of the English countryside.
If you’re familiar with Ellen’s work, the designs may ring a bell. The all-linen range draws from four patterns in her latest fabric and wallpaper collection: Palmette (‘A little bit of Ancient Greece meets a lot of groovy,’ a playful reworking of the classic palm), Posy (delicate bunches of florals forming squiggly stripes), Poppies (a mesmerizing tangle of Arts & Crafts–inspired interlacing stems), and Spriglee (musing the wild climbing jasmine in Ellen’s own garden).
