Property News · September 16, 2017

Meet the textiles team designing for Crossrail and the tube


Wallace Sewell have been working together for 25 years, and they’re certainly going places with their latest workIf you happen to be travelling in London soon, take the Bakerloo, Northern or Jubilee tube lines and try to spot the four landmarks embedded in the fabric pattern on the seats. Peer hard enough and you’ll see subtle renditions of the London Eye, Big Ben and Tower Bridge.These are just some of the many moquettes created for Transport for London by textiles duo Harriet Wallace-Jones and Emma Sewell, who have been designing together as Wallace Sewell for the past 25 years. They have also created fabrics for the Overground, Croydon tram and the new Crossrail. “For the first few Crossrail trains, which are running now, we rode the line and took lots of pictures of buildings and stations,” says Sewell. “There was a shed on the side of the track that was a beautiful grey-green colour, and that ended up as part of the design.” She still feels proud whenever she catches the tube to their north London studio. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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