Allegra Hicks: An Eye for Design

About this book

Allegra Hicks: An Eye for Design examines textile interior and the fashion designers approach to design and luxuryretracing the genesis of her patterns over the past decades of her work. With her delicate prints inspired by nature and her feminine but energetic hand Allegras interiors are as harmonious as they are excessive imaginative and timeless. Enric Pastor editor in chief Architectural Digest (Spain) Season by season Allegra Hicks presents her original textile and pattern designs alongside beautiful photography of interiors landscapes and unexpected points of nature. Essays on design color and seasonal elements will inspire readers to look at interiors and fabrics in a new and different way. Pairing original textile and pattern designs with inspiring photography of interiors and landscapes the book is an internal voyage through Allegra Hickss mind. She writes in her introduction: When I began to work as a designerafter finishing my studies during which time I learned a variety of techniquesI had to find my own vocabulary. And I started by looking at nature. Patterns are always an elaboration of nature a microcosm that takes off from shapes in the macrocosm. I observed everything is part of our everyday life searching for the essence of these things. I still work in this way. Out of observation of the world there emerges an abstraction a pattern which finds its own life once I remove it from the original context.