Colefax & Fowler Ltd

Sectors:

  • Professional services Architecture, interior design, & landscape & garden design services
  • Distribution - retailing Furniture, carpets, home furnishings, etc, retailing
  • Professional services Industrial & domestic goods design services exc fashion

Notes:

Traced origins to Lady Sybil Colefax, 1874-1950, who in early 1930s started interior design for friends. 1933 established Sybil Colefax Ltd. Joined by John Fowler in 1938 to become Colefax & Fowler. c1948 acquired by Mrs Nancy Lancaster. Tom Parr, 1930-2011, joined as business partner in 1960. Imogen Taylor, who joined in 1949, played a major role as designer until retirement in 1999. Noted for innovative style for country houses of prestigious customers and, after 1945, worked on historically important interiors. Sold fabrics from 1960s. Continues as Colefax Group Plc, an international designer and distributor of furnishing fabrics and wallpapers and an interior design business

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