WILDFLOWERS is my most recent collection of hand-block printed tablecloths and napkins, inspired by a conversation between my father, David Hicks and Rosemary Verey, the famed English garden designer.
As they toured my parents' garden in Oxfordshire, my father, with his sharp eye for structure and contrast, would gesture towards the clipped avenues of hornbeam and point out his bold geometric patterns. It is a garden full of surprises and complexity, with doors in walls that open onto secret spaces, pyramid-topped gateposts, allées of stilted hornbeam trees, broad sweeps of lawn, and the occasional sight of wildflowers, turning the old farmhouse garden into a dazzling display of imagination.
“The test of a good garden,” he would say, “is seeing it in winter.” These linens, like my father’s garden, can be enjoyed in winter or summer, autumn or spring.
