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Modern Velvet, CLAY

trimmings, the St Leger & Viney offering
features international icons like Ralph
Lauren, Dedar, Élitis and Thibaut, with a
focus on innovation and craftsmanship.
The two new collections are no
exception. Modern Velvet comes in 17
rich colours, combining a soft, velvety
texture with a sleek, modern look. Vintage
Linen, available in 15 classic shades, is an
elegant fabric that looks like washed linen
and features a distinct mélange pattern.
The new fabrics will be on display at the
opening of the exhibition, and thereafter
will form part of the staple offering in the
Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town
showrooms. In addition to the paintings
on show in Cape Town, select art pieces
will also be exhibited in the Johannesburg
showroom. There is no cost to view the
Colourway exhibition, which is open to
visitors during office hours. dw

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Lillies by Sarah Ord and Lauren Shantall
Sarah Ord

and pulling out the samples that spoke still life painting tradition of capturing
to me especially. I then photographed details in a room. It’s inter-related and this
those ones and reproduced some of the just adds another layer to that,’ she says.
patterns, or sections of the patterns on The resulting paintings set up a rich
canvas, as elements in the paintings. The dialogue with the fabrics. ‘Both Vintage
fabric colours were especially inspiring as Linen and Modern Velvet have a long
reference material, and I used blocks of colour line, which means that there are
colour from the new Vintage Linen and a variety of different colours, so they are
Modern Velvet collections as backgrounds just like a paint palette - you can do what
and foregrounds. I wanted to explore you want with them. They are saturated
how these adaptable colourways could colours that are a little more complex and
be adapted into a different medium, into sophisticated,’ says St Leger & Viney’s new
painting, which is why this exhibition is CEO Peter Gordon, who initiated the idea
called Colourway. I love how an interior of introducing original artworks into the
designer might compose a room using mix.
elements like colour through the use of St Leger & Viney has been a leader in
fabric - much in the same way a painter or South Africa’s interior design industry
photographer might compose a picture. since 1989. Renowned for its premium
And of course, there’s that longstanding selection of fabrics, wall coverings and

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