More More More: Making Maximalism Work in Your Home and Life

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His love of pattern and design accumulated during a Fine Art degree at Camberwell School of Arts (now a constituent college of the University of Arts London). This degree left LLB with a steady hand but a bigger ego... He took his new-found knowledge with him to a variety of design companies and TV shows before establishing Llewelyn-Bowen Design in 1998. Since then, pattern has remained the key component to every product, project and performance in LLB's portfolio. Yes, there is a very good life lesson to this idea of just asking the stuff that you share your world with if they give you pleasure and have a story to tell. It might sound a bit extreme, but arson is a good starting point,” he says. “I’m assuming this is a perfect reflection of you, Chris?” Why on earth would you want to smell of laundry? Why not smell like chocolate, indulgence, sex or romance," he teases. I wanted to make a very strong link between the Cotswolds and the Arts and Crafts movement,’ he continues. ‘It was people like Ashbee, Owen Jones, Walter Crane – and we all know about William Morris, of course – who all used the Cotswolds as a real springboard for all that we love about the movement; its chunky integrity and ‘Britishness’.’

I’ve known about this place for such a long time,’ says Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, as we sit chatting in one of the welcoming rooms of The Dial House hotel in Bourton-on-the-Water. ‘It’s a Cotswold jewel box... but the thing I found most enticing about it was that it’s basically my house.’LLB: We have a very big 'great room', which is the elbow of the house. It never felt right to call it a drawing room or a sitting room. That part of the house was built in 1614 and was always referred to as 'the big room'. Calling it 'the great room' feels quite informal. Laurence standing by his towering bookshelf in the Great Room More More More by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen What would top your list for the worst decor trend?

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is as ever a proud champion of vibrant and vivacious design. His Fine Art collection exudes glamour and maximalist flair. Drawing from Tropical Art Deco influences, these exclusive designs are quintessential LLB with unique and flamboyant flourishes. Since 17 August 2021 he has re-appeared as resident designer on the reboot of the popular 90s makeover show Changing Rooms on Channel 4 with new host Anna Richardson. In 2022 he appeared in Pilgrimage as part of a group of celebrities with different religious affiliations who travelled in the footsteps of Saint Columba. Llewelyn-Bowen participated as a "non-conforming pagan". [31]. He is sometimes credited as "Laurence Llewelyn", [5] and the components of his name are sometimes misspelled [6] as "Lawrence". [7] On Changing Rooms, he is occasionally jocularly styled "Lord Laurence", a play on Laurence Olivier and Llewelyn-Bowen's flamboyance.In 2020, Llewelyn-Bowen designed a furniture collection with British furniture manufacturer, wholesaler and dropshipper Artisan Furniture, consisting of handmade, solid wood furniture designs showcasing carving, painted and dark stained furniture pieces. [32] The LUX collection by Llewelyn-Bowen is set to be available for both dropship [33] and wholesale. [34] Personal life [ edit ]

In 2008 he began hosting a Sunday morning radio show The Sunday Spa on Classic FM. [19] Early 2000s [ edit ] The funny thing about this author and Marie Kondo is that their advice for deciding which items to employ in your surroundings is quite similar. We can't even start that. There is a scroll that would stretch twice around the globe practically - I've never denied myself maximalism." The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, vol. 57-B, no. 1, February 1975, p. 107- https://online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/pdf/10.1302/0301-620X.57B1.107-a The proud father-of-the-bride not only walked his daughter down the aisle, which he described as his "highlight of the whole day", but he also turned bridal designer by designing her wedding dress.This is based on the personality of illustrator and aesthete Aubrey Beardsley. Very much a figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, but rather at its floppy, decadent end. The room is very much trying to evoke his very keen sense for interior decoration – he was very keen on dark colours and emphatic gestures. The bespoke tapestries bring the room together, and it’s been very popular with brides who see it as the ideal matrimonial environment... goodness knows what stories those tapestries can tell.’ The 'May Morris' suite, inspired by Cotswold designer and daughter of William Morris, using patterns from the Llewelyn-Bowen Fabric Collection. Bookspines by The Original Bookworks (Image: Steve Thorp) It's somewhere where we spent a lot of time gathering together. It's also the room where I keep most of my books. It has a very chatty face. The walls are always full of intellectual potential as far as I'm concerned. The room has a very changeable state, which I think is quite exciting. With this book, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen will not only explain how to adopt maximalism in the home, but promises to change your outlook on living happily in it. Structured within a complete timeline of maximalism, there's something for everyone to love! But red had to get in there somewhere though it has apparently now been changed to tone it down (Image: Channel 4)