Editorial Coverage
As well as being featured on prime time TV makeover and home improvement shows, such as Kirsty’s Homemade Home and 60 Minute Makeover, Vanessa’s fabrics, wallpapers and rugs (soon to be joined by a range of upholstered furniture!) are also getting lots of editorial coverage in consumer magazines – both national titles and local publications. And, of course, we get really excited when we see Vanessa’s designs featured – there’s a real buzz in the office when the latest magazines arrive – so we thought why not share some of these highlights with you each month too? We’ve included a selection here - please click on the images below to find out more – and we’ll add to this gallery each month; that way you can keep right up to date with what’s hot from Vanessa as soon as it hits the newsstands!
Country Homes & Interiors
March 2012 Read
Ideal Home
March 2012 Read
The English Home
March 2012 Read
House Beautiful
The soothing colours of Vanessa Arbuthnott fabrics in Duck Egg and Speedwell, Forget-me-not and Denim and Duck Egg and Denim give a bathrooma restful and relaxing ambiance. The Vanessa Arbuthnott Sky Collection, Pie in the Sky and Simple Spot combine with Plain Dotty in Cornflower from the Wildflower Collection to add style to a small office.
February 2012 Read
Country Homes & Interiors
A swatch of Union Linen in Raspberry illustrates the Editor’s suggestions for using colour and texture at home to generate a smile and lift moods.
February 2012 Read
Kitchens,Bedrooms & Bathrooms
Pie in the Sky from the Vanessa Arbuthnott Sky Collection is used on a roller blind to fashion a stylish alternative to curtains.
February 2012 Read
The English Home
Bold splashes of colour from Botanical Trellis, Cockerel and Spot and Fern and Dragonfly are used in a child’s bedroom to add fun and vibrancy.
February 2012 Read
Homes & Antiques
Delicate Cow Parsley fabric by Vanessa Arbuthnott is suggested to achieve a feminine look.
February 2012 Read
Beautiful Kitchens
A subtle blend of Vanessa Arbuthnott’s mellow yellows, pale blues and light greys in fabrics and wall coverings would look equally at home in a country or retro-style kitchen creating a bright and cheerful colour scheme.
February 2012 Read
Real Homes
Pretty Swallow Dive, Little Leaf and French Ticking fabrics in assorted blues bring warmth to an otherwise cold bathroom.
January 2012 Read
Period Living
An eclectic selection of cushions in assorted fabrics from Vanessa Arbuthnott, enliven a classic sofa.
January 2012 Read
Period Ideas
Woodland, Earth and Wildflower collections by Vanessa Arbuthnott appear on the front cover of this month’s issue of Period Ideas.
January 2012 Read
Period Homes & Interiors
A sample of Life and Eternity Detail in Brick is incorporated in a stylish ideas article.
January 2012 Read
Good Homes
An array of fabrics from the Vanessa Arbuthnott Wild Flower and Meadow collections adorn a day bed as part of an 18 page feature on bedroom trends, furniture and decorating ideas.
January 2012 Read
25 Beautiful Homes
Feather and Egg Linen Union by Vanessa Arbuthnott is suggested as an unusual feather print curtain fabric.
January 2012 Read
Casa
Vanessa Arbuthnott fabrics are being featured in the Italian home interest press. An illusion of texture is created by using Hand Printed Life and Eternity Detail and Life and Eternity Ground fabrics together in the same colourway, to give a positive and negative effect.
December 2011 Read
Period Living
Character appeal is created in a period home by using a selection of Vanessa Arbuthnott fabrics for curtains and a bed valance, including the Flora and Fauna and Cow Parsley Collections.
December 2011 Read
Home and Antiques
A selection of wallpapers and fabrics by Vanessa Arbuthnott give the ‘wow’ factor, contrasting new with old, in a period home.
December 2011 Read
Ideal Home Magazine
Budget revamp – French Ticking fabric in Mushroom and Raspberry is listed in this article on a cost-effective kitchen makeover.
December 2011 Read
Sunday Mirror
Feather and Egg fabric from the Cockerel collection is suggested as a feather print design for use in a bedroom.
December 2011 Read
Home & Gardens
Vanessa Arbuthnott’s hand-printed collection gets a mention in an article on Indian-style textile prints. Life and Eternity fabric is featured to demonstrate the effect of hand printing on linen union.
November 2011 Read
25 Beautiful Homes
A floral fabric used to upholster a sofa and chair is compared to Flora and Fauna fabric, Rabbit and Damson from the Vanessa Arbuthnott Meadow Collection. The fabric is used to create a calming effect in a reader’s New York suburb house, built in a New England design
November 2011 Read
The English Home
Chicken Check fabric, part of the Cockerel Collection by Vanessa Arbuthnott is used on a cushion in a longhouse restoration which has been sympathetically modernised into a warm and welcoming B&B.
November 2011 Read
The Design Handbook 2012
Fabric designer Vanessa Arburthnott’s ‘Words of wisdom’ provide good advice on fabric care, fire retardant and Scotchguard treatments.
November 2011 Read
From Britain with Love
An on-line ‘Meet the Maker’ article features Vanessa Arbuthnott, revealing what inspires her design ideas, why she uses British fabric and prints and what she enjoys doing in her spare time. http://www.frombritainwithlove.com
November 2011 Read
Dear Designer Blog
Interior designer and writer Carole King features Vanessa Arbuthnott fabric, rugs and wallpapers in her ‘I spy’ blog. She writes how living in the Cotswolds inspires Vanessa’s design ideas. http://deardesigner.co.uk
November 2011 Read
25 Beautiful Homes
Vanessa Arbuthnott’s signature Duck Egg Blue fabrics provide a solution for a reader who has a particular colour in mind for her decorating scheme.
October 2011 Read
Country Homes & Interiors
Golden tones and an autumnal theme are used in a reader’s guest bedroom to create a homely feel.
October 2011 Read
Period Homes & Interiors
Plain Check fabric in Charcoal and Clay is suggested to achieve a country house style.
October 2011 Read
Period Living
A traditional headboard covered in Simple Ticking Ground fabric is included in a modern heritage article, while a Victorian settle renovation is transformed using fabric from the Vanessa Arbuthnott Wild Flower Collection.
October 2011 Read
Home
A feature on best dressed windows uses Vanessa Arbuthnott made-to-measure lined curtains, with a triple pleat heading, in hand-printed Life and Eternity Ground fabric. Lazy Daisy and Check Speedwell fabrics are used to demonstrate mixing and matching in a charming country kitchen.
October 2011 Read
Home & Fashion 2011
Vanessa’s fabrics are featured as ingredients in an eclectic country look and the simple abstract shapes of Simple Ticking Ground create 1950’s and 1960’s-style appeal.
October 2011 Read
Country Living
A collection of Vanessa Arbothnott fabrics create stylish, rustic charm and a feel of autumn.
October 2011 Read
Beautiful Kitchens
Vanessa Arbuthnott Cow Parsley in Duck Egg and Cornflower was the inspiration for the colour scheme in the kitchen of a stone Wiltshire house built in the early 1900s.
September 2011 Read
Ideal Home
Cushions in Vanessa Arbuthnott fabric from the Wildflower Collection help to decorate a guest bedroom.
September 2011 Read
Period Living
A feature on decorating describes how Vanessa Arbuthnott adapted her successful Stripe and Dash fabric design to create a flatweave stair runner, which is made from British wool and woven in Wales.
September 2011 Read
The English Home
Headboards, curtains and bedcoverings in Vanessa Arbuthnott fabrics give a light and airy feel to a loft bedroom.
September 2011 Read
Home
The Woodland, Garden and Cockerel Collections all get a mention in the fabric buyer's guide and one home owner names Vanessa Arbuthnott as one of her favourite fabric brands.
September 2011 Read
Real Homes
The Garden Collection is featured in the Window Dressing Style Guide.
September 2011 Read
Country Homes & Interiors
Vanessa Arbuthnott fabrics and rugs appear in many decorative schemes in this issue, including a traditional Northumberland farmhouse and they take centre stage in an artcile on dressing and decorating windows.
September 2011 Read
Real Life
Vanessa Arbuthnott fabric appears in a showcase of ethical upholstery in this Caribbean luxury lifestyle, property and design magazine.
September 2011 Read
Traum Wohnen und Genießen
Vanessa Arbuthnott fabrics are being featured in the German home interest press too!
September 2011 Read
Period Homes & Interiors
How a crumbling Victorian barn conversion became the inspiration for Vanessa’s new career as a fabric designer.
September 2011 Read
Financial Times
An article on British textile artists includes a mention of Vanessa Arbuthnott as ‘one to watch’.
September 2011 Read
Period Ideas
A reader includes Vanessa Arbuthnott in her ‘little black book’ of interiors products which have helped to create a feminine country look in her 200 year old thatched cottage.
August 2011 Read
Ideal Home
A coastal living room moodboard features Vanessa Arbuthnott Seashells and Sand. An article on super-sized paisley recommends the hand-printed quality of Life & Eternity fabrics and Acorn and Leaf linen union is used for curtaining in a Devon cottage.
August 2011 Read
25 Beautiful Homes
Paisley Ground is used to upholster headboards in a stylishly renovated Victorian semi, while Vanessa Arbuthnott wallpaper and fabrics are used in the décor for a Cotswold farmhouse.
August 2011 Read
Good Homes
Fabric designer Vanessa Arbuthnott talks about her past, present and future homes.
August 2011 Read
Homes & Gardens
Plain Dotty oilcloth in Duck Egg is included in a swatch of practical coverings for indoor and outdoor use.
August 2011 Read
House Beautiful
Vanessa Arbuthnott’s new furniture collection gets a mention and a selection of fabrics is used to dress an attic bedroom.
August 2011 Read
The English Home
Curtains, cushions and upholstery from Vanessa Arbuthnott are used to create a welcoming space in which friends and family can relax together.
August 2011 Read
Devon Life
August 2011 Read
Period Homes & Interiors
The Vanessa Arbuthnott Seaside collection featuring seashells, seaweed and sand in a palette of blue and white.
July 2011 Read
Ideal Home
Songbirds in Buttercup, Clay and Charcoal is listed as one of this magazine's favourite country fabrics.
July 2011 Read
Country Homes & Interiors
Adding a sense of the sea with the Vanessa Arbuthnott Seaside fabric collection.
July 2011 Read
25 Beautiful Homes
French Ticking in Raspberry is suggested as a way to recreate the nautical look in a reader's guest bedroom.
July 2011 Read
Period Ideas
A sofa from the furniture collection at Vanessa Arbuthnott opens a spread on decorating ideas.
July 2011 Read
Country Homes & Interiors
A table runner in hand-blocked Life & Eternity blends well with colourful ikat fabrics.
June 2011 Read
House Beautiful
We meet Vanessa in her Cotswold kitchen where her fabric and wallpaper design business was born.
June 2011 Read
Ideal Home
Associate Editor, Nicky Phillips, shows how you can create a sense of order with soft shades and muted colours, like the Duck Egg and Cornflower of Vanessa's Cow Parsley wallpaper.
June 2011 Read
Period Ideas
An armchair covered in Vanessa Arbuthnott fabrics is one of the inspiring interiors ideas to go into the Period Ideas sourcebook.
June 2011 Read
Good Homes
Visit Vanessa's studio, enjoy some afternoon tea and hear her speak about her designs as part of The Cotswold Open Studios Weekend on 25 and 26 June. Call 01285 831437 to book.
June 2011 Read
Period Homes and Interiors
Various Vanessa Arbuthnott fabrics and wallpapers are used to illustrate how to decorate with birds, bugs and butterflies.
June 2011 Read
Country Living
A set of cushions donated by Vanessa Arbuthnott to the Country Living Celebrity Craft Auction will go to add a touch of the British countryside to a Munich city flat.
June 2011 Read
25 Beautiful Homes
Vanessa's Acorn and Leaf fabric is used to cover a headboard and cushion in the guest bedroom of a listed cottage.
May 2011 Read
Beautiful Kitchens
Vanessa's Plain Dotty oilcloth in Straw helps to create a warm, welcoming, and comforting kitchen.
May 2011 Read
Country Homes & Interiors
Eco Chic - our sustainable wallpapers and 100% British wool rugs are listed in this piece on how to give your home furnishings excellent green credentials.
May 2011 Read
House and Garden
The monochromatic palette and simple lines of Simple Ticking Detail in charcoal look right at home in this elegant contemporary space.
May 2011 Read
Period Ideas
The Hand Printed Collection illustrates a page on what's coming up in the next issue of Period Ideas.
May 2011 Read
Period Living
Inspiration for using grey to create a sense of calm in home interiors and a note on the historic floral designs and ancient crafts which have inspired spring fabric and wallpaper collections.
May 2011 Read
The English Home
Vanessa's fabrics featuring chickens, checks, feathers and eggs help to create the perfect backdrop for al fresco dining while the Woodland Collection brings the outdoors into a hallway.
May 2011 Read
Home
Butterfly Dance is featured as a great example of fabric design inspired by the natural world. Many of Vanessa's creations take their cues from the beautiful Cotswold countryside where she lives.
May 2011 Read
25 Beautiful Homes
Prints Charming - Simple Ticking, Butterfly Dance and Life & Eternity from the Hand Printed collection are used to bring a touch of handcrafted elegance to a dining area, while a remnant of Vanessa's fabric is put to good use in a thatched country kitchen.
April 2011 Read
Country Homes & Interiors
A stylist gives tips on how to mix and match cushions in checks, florals and botanical prints by linking them with a common colour theme. The Editor also seems to have a soft spot for Vanessa's Little Leaf design!
April 2011 Read
Period Homes & Interiors
A celebration of decorating with classic checks and the fabrics which compliment them.
April 2011 Read
The English Home
A chair upholstered in Vanessa's Butterfly Dance and Simple Ticking Ground in subtle muted colours of pigeon and teal is the centrepiece for a feature on bringing light indoors with a fresh palette of natural prints. Vanessa's fabrics are also used to add a finishing touch to a farmhouse kitchen of freestanding furniture and vintage accessories.
April 2011 Read
Utopia
A mention for Vanessa's nature-inpired Wildflower, Sky, Seaside and Woodland collections.
April 2011 Read
Ideal Home
Woodland Walk in Field adds a touch of botanical greenery to an article on decorating with nature's favourite colour and a mix of Vaneassa's fabrics are used to create a comfy window seat.
April 2011 Read
BBC Homes and Antiques
Man not machine - how Vanessa has returned to the methods she used when she first started making fabrics to create the Hand Printed collection.
March 2011 Read
Good Homes
Blooming marvellous - gorgeous garden-inspired fabrics which help to bring the outdoors inside.
March 2011 Read
House Beautiful
A reader's home is used to show how simple shapes in pale colours can help maximise a sense of space.
March 2011 Read
Mosaic-Yorkshire Magazine
The art behind the creation of the durable linen union in the Hand Printed collection.
March 2011 Read
Utopia
A treasured armchair is revamped with new upholstery in Vanessa's Cotswold countryside inspired Butterfly Dance and Ticking Ground.
March 2011 Read
Country Homes & Interiors
Botanical Trellis and Leaf fabrics and a rug in Cornlower/Smoke from Vanessa's collection were all chosen to appear in a feature on the timeless, elegant quality of Scandinavian styling.
February 2011 Read
House Beautiful
Vanessa's new fabric motifs inspired by a visit to a traditional block-printing workshop in India, became one of House Beautiful's best new buys of the month.
February 2011 Read
Ideal Home
Decorating Editor, Robin Collingwood, tells the story of Vanessa Arbuthnott Fabrics, its origins, its ethos and its collections, highlighting the new hand printed organic linens.
February 2011 Read
Period Living
Vanessa's new collection of fabrics printed in India using traditional wooden blocks caught the eye of Maggie Stevenson when she was compiling the Sourcebook section of this edition.
February 2011 Read
Sunday Express
'S' magazine's article on interiros with a nautical theme included a mention for Vanessa's Seaside collection of linens and cottons.
February 2011 Read
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Part 1 - Anna King of BBC Radio Gloucestershire talks to Vanessa Arbuthnott in the comfort of her home kitchen, where her fabric design business began, about how she started, how she works and what inspires her.
February 2011 Listen
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Part 2 - Anna King continues her talk with Vanessa Arbuthnott in the comfort of her home kitchen, where her fabric design business began, about how she started, how she works and what inspires her.
February 2011 Listen
The Cabinet Maker
A products review highlights the launch of Vanessa's new collection of hand printed fabrics in plain linens, French ticking and soft patterns of wild roses and buttercups.
January 2011 Read
Kirstie's Homemade Home
Kirstie turns her attention to bedrooms, and for inspiration she visits Vanessa's Cotswold home, a flat in Hove and Maunsel House.
September 2010 Watch