Designers Guild

Designers Guild is an international home and lifestyle company with a flagship store and showroom on the Kings Road in London, and offices in London, Paris and Munich.

Designers Guild designs and wholesales furnishing fabric, wall coverings, upholstery and bed and bath collections throughout Europe, and in over 60 countries worldwide.

Designers Guild History

Tricia Guild founded Designers Guild in 1970. The company is jointly owned by Tricia Guild,founder and Creative director and her brother Simon Jeffreys, Chief Executive.

Structure

The Designers Guild group employs over 250 people in the UK and overseas offices in Munich and Paris. 220 are in the UK, a 66,000 square ft distribution centre and 16,000 sq ft purpose built head office are both situated in West London.

Development

Turnover has grown rapidly over the past 20 years from less than £3 million to over £43 million selling to interior designers, department stores, retailers and the hotel and contract market. The largest single market is the UK, with sales overseas being conducted through key Designers Guild showrooms and operating centres in France, Germany and Italy with agents and distributors operating elsewhere across Europe and Worldwide.

The Collections

Designers Guild collections offer a broad and vast range of luxury furnishing fabrics and wall coverings including Designers Guild Kids and ‘Essentials’; a massive library of plain fabrics, for both domestic and contract sectors. The range of luxury products as well as furnishing fabrics and wall coverings includes furniture, bed and bath, home fragrance and accessories. The studio, headed by Tricia Guild, has produced designs from such diverse inspiration as Eastern decorative art, Italian architecture and classical documents.

In addition to the Designers Guild collections the company also designs and manufactures under license William Yeoward Fabrics and Paper, Jasper Conran Fabrics and is the European and Middle East distributor for Ralph Lauren Fabric and Wallpaper.

In September 2008 Designers Guild launched under license from the ‘Royal Collection’ a division of the Royal household, the Royal Collection Fabrics and Wallpapers. A collection inspired by the interiors of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, and by the official archive of art in the Royal Collection.

Awards

1991 Queen’s Award for Export Achievement.
1992 The Export Award for Smaller Businesses.
1996 Queen’s Award for Export Achievement.
2008 Pricewaterhouse Coopers Profit Track 100 – Britain’s fastest profit- 2008 Growth firms: Designers Guild awarded 22nd place.
2008 Microsoft award for Best Use of Technology.
2008 Freshest New Website Award 2009 ?id=24211</ref>
2009 Pricewaterhouse Coopers Profit Track 100 – Britain’s fastest profit Growth firms - company secures a place for the second consecutive year

External links

• Company Website
• London Town
• Shop of the Week, Homes and Gardens
• Jasper Conran Living