The World of Interiors July 1999 [antikvár]

ennaeWhat's in the air this month, edited by Rupert Thomas1Lorca is the iatest decorating company to comc under the wing of Osborne Little. Its range of weaves is particularly strong and includes this versatile, single-colour 'Lahore' velvet check (12 colours; L75 per m) and this smart 'Agra' geometric {8 colours; L78; both 130cm wide). To order from 304 King's Rd, London SW3. Ring 020 7352 1456 for details of stockists.2Top Fioor's 'Stone' loop-piie wooi carpet is part chunky knit, part pile of pebbles. Available by the metre (L220) or as ready-made rugs froin 1.7 x 240m (L1,629) to2X 3m (L2,360), it can be ordered from Interdesign, Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, London SWIO (020 7376 5273).3Conran's domestic Chinese stonewaresare the Oriental equivalent of Western plastic picnic sets. Versatile and, particularly by SW3 standards, amazingly teasonable (this set of six soup bowls costs L15.95; the set of six saucers L9.95), they are available at 81 Fulham Rd, London SW3 (020 7589 7401).4 in true IVorld of Interiors no-design-too-distant style, this cross-emblazoned deckchair was specially couriered to us frorn the remote Pyrenean workshop where it was made. With a wooden frame and a hand-loomed cotton seat, which was woven in one of the only factories that is still producing traditional Catalonian striped fabric, the design is available to order from Les Toiles du Soleil (FF435). Ring 00 33 4 68 39 50 02.5 Chariotte Perriand was given the brush-off by Le Corbusier when she first ^ approached him and Pierre Jeanneret in , October 1927. Within weeks, however, t he telephoned her with an offer of work c and thus set in motion a three-way i collaboration that produced many of the S icons of 20th-century design (she is i pictured with Corbusier, top right, in all ^ her marcel-waved modernity). Though | Perriand deserves the credit for designing g most of the furniture produced by the ^ partnership until 1937, she remains far less i