For its September 2020 issue, Elle Decor caught up with Nathalie Farman-Farma, the creator of the Décors Barbares fabric collection, at her London atelier, a delightful menagerie of “caftans, samovars, and fragments of embroidery framed and unframed.” “My house is tiny,” she told Elle Decor’s David Netto,
“…With small spaces, very cozy and old Russia. In the studio, I wanted to do something more Arts and Crafts, combining cultures on a white backdrop to make it easier to see patterns.”
Here are some of our highlights from the spread, photographed by the one-and-only Miguel Flores-Vianna.
A Napoleon III slipper chair in Nathalie’s studio, adjacent to her home in London, is upholstered in her Dans la Forêt print.
Nathalie Farman-Farma in her studio in a vintage Valentino dress.
Victorian-style chairs are topped with books, fabrics, and a vintage cake stand. Nathalie’s Polonaise fabric hides a radiator.
Featuring Nathalie’s Casse-noisette fabric (sofa), and her Natacha fabric (chair).
In the main bedroom, the headboard is upholstered in Dans la Forêt. The Edwardian side tables are topped with antique Argand oil lamps, and the paintings, depicting Russian icons, date to the 18th and 19th centuries.