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From boutique hotels and travel to sustainable fashion and lifestyle brands.
We have Slack channels for our team where we’re all sharing all the time—Roslyn Music, Roslyn Fashion and so on. Everyone is obsessed with their own thing and brings something totally different to the team based on their backgrounds and interests—from vintage Volvos to 1940s fashion to all things camp.
Our team always talks about boutique hotels as inspiration for so many different projects. They’re really this full, highly executed concept—not just the design of the building, but the whole experience, from what the staff wears to the accoutrements in the room. One of our favourites is Lùme in Ortigia, Sicily (pictured above): it used to be a family home, and the way they’ve curated the antiques in a contemporary space is amazing.
It’s trite but so true: it expands your horizons as a human, which is so important as a designer. Jess recently travelled to Scotland and Blair Castle (pictured above) was absolutely stunning—tartan fabrics on tartan fabrics everywhere. And Kate went to Japan, where she nurtured her newfound obsession with Japanese vintage watches, and brought back textiles for the newest Japanese yakitori restaurant we’re working on.
We love designers who work with limited-run deadstock material, like Emily Bode in New York—we’ve been following her journey with vintage textiles and tapestries, and old embroidered pieces—and, locally, Fyoocher is doing such great work.
It’s a retail and café space in New York that’s just incredible—really the kind of full lifestyle brand that we gravitate toward. There’s depth behind these companies and fashion designers that are really based in storytelling and narrative, and not just aesthetic.
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