Glenn Adamson chairs online talk on Wednesday 26th February: Flow States: Rhythm and Rhyme in Textile Art.
This is part of the programme of events at the UK’s West Dean College, of arts, design and conservation, the campus set in and...
Interwoven: Artist-designed rugs from the Christopher Farr Archive paired with curated works from Foss and Dusk & Sun.
This month during Frieze, 1846 Echo Park Ave. will host a dual exhibition from Christopher Farr’s archive of artist designed rugs.
Dusk & Sun...
Flying the flag for salvage, Retrouvius has been at the forefront of practice that embraces re-use and celebrates the beauty in materials that have been well-sourced, and hard-won. With years spent developing networks, they find treasures that have often been...
Patrick Grant has a lot to say about clothes; how many we buy, how we value them, what they’re made from, and importantly who made them and where. From the Savile Row tailors Norton and Sons, the brand that he...
Early this December, Christopher Farr London, invite you to join us for an evening of conversation, drinks and book signing. Mark your diary on the evening of Tuesday 3rd December.
Join Maria Speake, co-founder of Retrouvius, House & Garden’s Interior Designer...
Please support Turquoise Mountain x The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2024, a match-funding campaign, where every donation will be doubled to support the Artisan Resilience Fund. The campaign rugs 3rd – 10th December 2024.
Turquoise Mountain supports artisans under threat, in...
For London Design Festival 2024, Christopher Farr x Fondation Arp will present two new rugs, the designs adapted from original artworks of the trailblazing multidisciplinary Swiss artist and designer Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The installation in September at the Christopher Farr Studio,...
Once more, we make ourselves at home in the 8 Holland Street St James’s Park Flagship gallery in London, in some of the finest Queen Anne architecture, with Christopher Farr rugs including designs by figureheads Anni Albers and Marian Pepler...
We welcome you to the London King’s Road showroom, to see Christopher Farr x Spencer Fung installation ‘Roots Lichen Water’ which incorporates his three new rugs, his personal found and collected objects, fabrics and wallpaper from Christopher Farr Cloth, as...
Learn from the master color theorist and renowned abstract artist, former teacher at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and then Yale – the one and only Josef Albers. As a pioneer of modernism he had huge influence on many of...
In London on the King’s Road, we are happy to share the incredible story of Fogo Island, in our latest showroom installation ‘Setting The Scene’ designed by Ernst Hupel, Design Strategist at Fogo Island Workshops and principal at 2H. We...
We cherish every order, however, not many arrive on heavy card personal stationery, handwritten by such distinctive fluidity of form in inked pen. The commission for rugs from Mr Lagerfeld have been kept safely tucked in a box at Christopher...
A consummate tastemaker of the highest order, revered globally for his exacting eye and passion for the arts and culture, the late Mr Lagerfeld dedicated his life’s work to fashion, with lengthy tenures at Chanel, Chloé and Fendi. It is...
Visit us in Paris this January, where the London Christopher Farr team will be exhibiting at Maison et Objet.
Christopher Farr presents new hand knotted rug designs at Maison et Objet, as part of our CF Editions collection, available from stock,...
In the heart of Seoul, we see our Gunta Stölzl and Anni and Josef Albers CF Editions rugs appear at the renowned Design House Korea in their presentation of the Bauhaus Movement: Tradition meets Modernity. The exhibition takes visitors on...
Learning from the experts in every field, we are delighted to be collaborating with Sotheby’s for their Classic Design and Design 17/20 sales and meeting their senior team including Henry House, who joined as head of department in 2006, after...
As an on-going collaboration with Turquoise Mountain, Christopher Farr are delighted to continue our working relationship with the weaving communities of the Bamiyan region in Afghanistan, renowned for their heritage craft skills.
Drawn by the lustrous nature of Ghazni wool, Christopher...
In their third and newest flagship gallery, in St James’ Park at 34a Queen Anne’s Gate, 8 Holland Street have settled into this wonderfully spacious and light filled historic building. We are delighted to see our rugs designed by Bauhuaslers Gunta Stölzl...
Up and coming British interior designer has bought her distinctive aesthetic to life in our latest King’s Road showroom installation. ‘My Happy Place’ serves as a vibrant canvas to showcase the latest collection by the esteemed Kit Kemp for Christopher Farr...
Co-author of Phaidon’s Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography, author of a further five books on design and architecture, retail specialist, director of The Isokon Gallery Trustand Trustee of the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation, we grabbed some time with Magnus Englund...
Always thoughtful, with a clarity of form and rigorous attention to detail, Matthew Hilton and his studio are world-renowned for their product design output. We are now rewarded with his first sculpture exhibition, ‘Tough Moment’ at Paul Smith Albemarle street...
Just launched during the London Design Festival 2023 – and on show at the Christopher Farr Shoreditch Studio until 23rd September – we present the new ‘1923’ rug from original artwork of Gunta Stölzl, produced by Christopher Farr.
Bringing context to the...
Once home to Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school, the Isokon Flats in North London has been rightfully rescued and restored, and now awarded Grade I listed status. This follows a number of tumultuous years when this Modernist gem...
Co-author of six books on design and architecture, retail specialist, director of the Isokon Gallery Trust, and Trustee of the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation, we grabbed some time with Magnus Englund to delve into his inside knowledge on modernism’s...
In our London Shoreditch Studio – from the 18th Sept to 23rd Sept 2023 – during London Design Festival 2023, we will host ‘Women Behind the Weave: Bauhaus to the Bosphorus’. This exhibition marks the launch of a new rug...
A lesson in following your heart – and being encouraged to do it – working hard and by his accounts ‘with wonderful luck’, and how to survive in the art world via the Whitworth in Manchester, Anthony d’Offay in London,...
In between running a gallery and concept store in the heart of the burgeoning creative scene in East London, not far from our Christopher Farr Shoreditch Studio, we grab some time with Laura Fulmine, curator of the latest installation in...
In our London Shoreditch Studio space to celebrate our LDF 2023 exhibition – Women Behind the Weave: Bauhaus to Bosphorus – on Tues 19th September, we will host a panel of experts to explore themes covering social innovation, welfare initiatives,...
Kettles Yard is a beautiful house filled with beautiful objects, once the home to H.S. (Jim) Ede and his wife Helen, an art teacher, located in a quiet corner of Cambridge. It was always conceived as a ‘open house’ where...
Until 30th July – last chance to see – ‘Ai Weiwei: Making Sense’ is the artist’s very first exhibition to focus on design and architecture, and is his biggest UK show in eight years. Known around the world for his powerful art...
Curated by Laura Fulmine of M.A.H., and introducing the new Howard Hodgkin rugs produced by Christopher Farr, we see the latest of the quarterly installs in the our London showroom celebrating the power of art in the home.
Hodgkin described his...
A survey of sixty years of practice South African artist-potter Hylton Nel who first sold his work in the Christopher Farr in Primrose Hill in the 1980s, where he was spotted by Min Hogg, the legendary founder editor of World...
Playing tricks with the eye, the new ‘Harald’ rug finds its perfect partners in ‘The Drafting Room’.
Our friends architecture and interior design studio Waldo Works, commissioned by de Gournay, have created ‘The Drafting Room’ within WOW House at DCCH, a...
Her work defies convention and categorisation. From studying with Josef Albers at Yale in the 1950s, her six-decade long career has taken her from magazine editor to working on the set design for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Having studied painting,...
Following the first solo exhibition presented by Alison Jacques Gallery, this is another opportunity to see the some of the work by the Gee’s Bend Artists. Visit the Royal Academy, for Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers: Black Artists from...
Explore Leighton House, the recently renovated extraordinary home of the Victorian home of painter, sculptor and pubic figure, Frederic Leighton. Situated on the edge of Holland Park, the museum is famed for its opulent interiors, including the Arab Hall featuring...
How do you paid get paid to relive Grand Tours and go shopping for some of the finest examples of craftsmanship from around the world? Running alongside our partnership with Sotheby’s for their Classic Design Series, we chat to Henry...
It’s always been Christopher Farr’s intention to have a showroom in the city. “From the beginning it’s been the holy grail. Once you make it in New York, you’ve made it.” He says.
For over thirty years Christopher Farr has been...
Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand just from the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. A feature documentary by Dylan Howitt.
‘An exquisite film . Extremely beautiful and helpful for anyone suffering loss, grief. An...
Join us in the Art Cafe at Somerset House, London, on Wednesday 19th April between 18:30 – 19:30 to hear about the lives of the Bloomsbury Group, some of 20th century’s most radical artists, writers and thinkers, that include Duncan Grant,...
This spring, Christopher Farr has partnered with Sotheby’s to celebrate their sales series Classic Design Week which has just begun in New York at the end of March.
The new Sotheby’s sale series Classic Design Week – encompassing European furniture, clocks, silver, ceramics...
Once home and studio to modernist painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, central to the Bloomsbury Group, barely a surface has been left untouched by their paintbrushes. Whether a wall, door, mantelpiece, or chair, the artists and their friends have...
Curated by Lucy Hammond Giles of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, our latest installation celebrates a new collection of rugs by Christopher Farr in partnership with Turquoise Mountain. Founded by His Majesty King Charles in 2006, Turquoise Mountain’s mission is...
From our long-term collaborators Studioilse, founded by Ilse Crawford, we share the marvel of La Chamba, made from volcanic clay with a process that dates back centuries. Materially irresistible, the subtleties of the surface sheen and texture invite the touch...
A leader of the New Tapestry movement in the 1960s, Abakanowicz claimed and validated fibre as medium for creating art. Fibre was the language in which she expressed herself, which resulted in her becoming the most well-known Polish artist of...
Working with the most sought after names in the international artworld, Artwise see themselves as collaborators, and curators with a small ‘c’, preferring to keep the spotlight on the artists and causes that they represent. Artwise, founded by Susie Allen...
Christopher Farr x Sotheby’s Story Café brings together again the pioneering women weavers of the Bauhaus; Gunta Stölzl and Anni Albers. The display will run until late May 2023, as part of the Sotheby’s (Women) Artists Campaign. Sotheby’s Story Café,...
Once again, we are privileged to be part of WWF’s major fundraising campaign Tomorrow’s Tigers, devised by Art Wise curators and previewed at Sotheby’s. As part of this year’s incredible line up of artists (including Anish Kapoor, Gary Hume and...
Tomorrow’s Tigers is a major fundraising project, devised and curated by Artwise Curators for WWF, to highlight the continued threat to wild tiger populations. For 2022, Christopher Farr produced specially commissioned, limited-edition art rugs by 12 internationally renowned artists, including...
During London Design Festival in our new Shoreditch studio in London, we previewed the prototype of ‘Jelly’ Salad’, our collaboration with the one and only Bethan Laura Wood. Continuing Bethan’s exploration of food presentation and representation, ‘Jelly Salad’, is a...
As part of our on-going series of ‘takeovers’ of London King’s Road showroom, we are happy to welcome Henry Prideaux and his eponymous interior design studio to create a warm and exuberant pre-Christmas installation.
The studio is run by Creative Director...
‘We exist to open eyes’ is the mission of the Albers Foundation, to continue the legacy of Josef and Anni Albers, who were both pioneers very much in their own right. To celebrate their fiftieth anniversary, this book ‘You can...
If you are a textile lover and embrace pattern, it’s likely that one of your early inspirations has been the American-born artist Kaffe Fassett. Continuing until 12th March 2023, The Power of Pattern explores Fassett’s artistic eye in an immersive...
To celebrate our on-going relationship with the Albers Foundation, we invited the team at 8 Holland Street to curate our King’s Road showroom, to make it their own with an edit of their furniture, artworks, ceramics, alongside a selection of...
Bethan Laura Wood’s ‘Jelly Salad’ is a joyous gathering of abstracted vegetables suspended in a jelly sea, immortalised in the form of a CF Editions rug. Inspired by vintage folk art and American hooked rugs, varying heights and textures are...
In the King’s Road showroom, we will display Vexillum V artwork, the first time the piece has been presented publicly, with Christopher Farr x Margo Selby new rugs. We invite you to visit between the dates 23rd February – 23rd March.
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This new collection of rugs traverses the beautiful colors and textures found throughout Commune’s home in California. By juxtaposing luxurious silk with hearty wool and manipulating pile heights, this collection adds richness to any interior.
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Christopher Farr and Chariots on Fire present: Makoto Kagoshima Ceramics and Limited Edition Rugs.
The exhibition will debut Kagoshima’s latest collection of one-of-a-kind ceramic works along with nine unique rugs. On view by appointment from October 28th – November 3rd in...
Join Matthew Hilton in conversation with House and Garden’s Deputy Editor David Nicholls in the Kings Road showroom, as Matthew talks through his latest collaboration with Christopher Farr and the special LDF installation on display with SCP and Christopher Farr...
KAWS’ work, UNTITLED, 2021 is the fruit of an invitation by curators Paris Murray Celant and Dr. Cornelia Lauf, dating to 2016, when they met with KAWS to select a potential work to be translated into production. The original painting...
Presenting the brand-new 200m2 showroom on London’s iconic Kings Road, home to the Christopher Farr collection of bespoke and custom rugs and Cloth’s library of fabrics, wallpapers, passementerie and accessories. A light filled, multi-level space with the feel of an...
We are delighted to present the two latest rugs from our long-term collaboration with internationally renowned designer Michael Young. ‘Voronic’, a handknotted rug and ‘Tessellation’, a handtufted version, celebrate Young’s interest in playing with shape and form and his expertise...
Following the successful launch of the first Christopher Farr x Gregory Parkinson collaboration ‘Woven’ at Galerie Berthet Aittouarès in Paris last year, comes this second collection of new textures ‘Intertwine’ as Parkinson continues to develop his alternative approach and exploration...
Christopher Farr continue their journey of exploration through the archives of Anni and Josef Albers, interpreting their patterns into decorative rugs and celebrating the legacy of the Bauhaus pioneers with this latest design ‘The Many Faces of Red’ by Josef...
Blenheim Art Foundation unveils a major solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Cecily Brown at Blenheim Palace which includes Brown’s first ever textile work ‘Armorial Memento, Floored, 2020’. The piece was created by Christopher Farr and features heraldic imagery, warped...
Thank you for contributing to our Turquoise Mountain Covid-19 Fundraiser. With your help, we raised funds to provide vital food assistance to over 800 households.
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