Family values ...
Prestige.
There are a lot of shades, charm and grandeur in this word!
Family values.
How amazing sometimes family tree "grows", delighting with great offsprings!
And how these two categories are joined into a single entity, taken "from different shelves" of pulsating life?
Quite simply, we are talking about Watts of Westminster, a descendant of the famous decor house Watts & Co, founded in 1987 by George Frederick Bodley, Thomas Garner and George Gilbert Scott Jr.
By the way, the aforementioned architects have experienced a huge need.
The need for textile fabrics, wallpaper, embroidery and other goods, necessary for the performance of many prestigious orders.
We, as promised, have opened a page on which with bright letters is written "Prestige", let us stay on it longer, it is worth to read.
The Supreme Court of Hampton, Ham House, Castle Powis – list of the clients was impressive, it inspired confidence and forced more thoroughly respond to business challenges posed by market.
New World was not left without creative attention: Mr. Bodley very successfully decorated the Washington Cathedral.
Let us turn the page, and ...
"Let us thank the difficulties that we are overcoming!» - Watts, obeying the determination of Elizabeth Louise Hoare, granddaughter of George Gilbert Scott's, has experienced very difficult years of the mid-19th century with dignity and unlike other companies dealing with decorating spaces, left "their doors open" to new and interesting projects.
Quite possibly, the immediate proximity to Westminster Abbey played its role: Watts remained a manufacturer and supplier of the best church decorations in the world.
Peerless samples promptly and carefully extracted from the archives under the leadership of Fiona Flint, allowed to revive a genuine interest in Watts of Westminster about fifty years ago, and the current collection of textiles, wallpaper and decoration with beads once again provided irrefutable evidence of the uniqueness of the British company.
Watts has always been a family business. Today, it is led by Michael Graham Hoare, the great-grandson of Scott Jr. and "great-grandnephew " of Bodley. And the story subtly recalls that Bodley was half-brother of George Gilbert Scott and uncle of Gilbert Scott Junior - architect of Liverpool Cathedral.
Family values ...
We will not dissemble, all these details would be of interest only to a very narrow circle of people, if ...
If Watts did not occupy the place, which it occupies now.
Watts refuses to be a slave of fashion.
Watts puts individuality and eclectic approach to the décor on the modern design.
Watts teaches to respect stereotyped patterns and colors, two historically dominant fundamental elements which are in the heat of the battle with the monotony of minimalism so long were being deprived of their rightful attention.
Several recent projects, so different, and delightful show how Watts liked an unprecedented resurgence of interest for the decorative source with authentic collections of "intermediate-temporary" fabrics and wallpapers.
Wallace Historical Museum, London square in Manchester, luxury hotel Kloisterz on the southern coast of the island and Georgia and Buri AL Arab in Dubai - perfect illustration of Watts of Westminster creative triumph!