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Etons’ Creative Director, Sarah Latham
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Etons of Bath, that well-known team of period house renovation specialists, is bringing all its expertise to bear on a new range of rugs designed with Georgian homes and hotels specifically in mind – although, wouldn’t you know it, most of them work equally well in a contemporary setting too 118 I BATH LIFE I www.mediaclash.co.uk
arah Latham is Creative Director at Etons of Bath, an interior design outfit with a classical bent well suited to the Georgian and Victorian homes of the area, and where their fabric, lighting and furniture shop has just been boosted by the arrival of a new range of their own rugs, specifically designed for the area’s period homes. “This is the first in a series of collaborations with interiors manufacturers we’ll be doing, the idea being to launch our own small range of products,” Sarah says. “To qualify, these rugs needed to be like no others on the market, the design of each one inspired by a specific component of an original Georgian interior.” As with everything they do, Sarah’s taken inspiration here from the buildings she knows best. “We specifically looked at symbols and elements we thought would translate well,” she says. “Most of them are well-known, and can be seen in many of the beautiful properties we have here in Bath, but some were specifically inspired by the interiors at the Brighton Pavilion – a particularly avant-garde building at the time. Indeed, many of these influences still feel surprisingly contemporary today.” Right now samples can be seen (and touched!) at Etons’ Walcot Street studio, but each rug itself is actually made in India to order. “That way, the designs can be adapted to any size and colour, so they perfectly fit and suit your own interior. They can be hand knotted or hand tufted, or whatever you want.” Rugs hugely predate fitted carpets, of course, and were big news in the potentially chilly great houses of the Georgian era. “The advent of machine-loomed carpets came shortly after
