This year’s Focus at Design Centre Chelsea Harbour was alive with colour, creativity and craftsmanship. Each showroom became a stage for design as fabrics, textures and light wove stories that sparked the imagination and invited new ones to unfold. Today on the blog, we are sharing a few of our favourites from this year’s event.
Pierre Frey set the tone with La Couleur de Nos Rêves, a captivating new fabric collection by visionary Jean Charles de Castelbajac. Inspired by dreams and painterly visions, the collection bursts with bold hues and joyful patterns, filling us with a sense of delight.
Castelbajac’s playful spirit runs through every design, endlessly inspiring and ready to transform interiors with both wit and wonder. While exploring the showroom, we discovered that he also recently designed the bishops’ robes for the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris, drawing from the cathedral’s shattered stained glass after the fire. That same reverence for colour and symbolism flows through this collection, infusing spaces with playful elegance.
Guell La Madrid took us on a deeper journey into history and artistry. Founded in Barcelona in the late nineteenth century, this heritage house is celebrated for blending old world craftsmanship with contemporary creativity. Their latest fabrics marry timeless richness with fresh innovation, featuring saturated tones and intricate prints that pay homage to Mediterranean roots while encouraging bold layers of pattern and colour. Each piece tells a story of European elegance reimagined for today’s interiors.
Lighting shone brilliantly at Vaughan, where timeless quality met subtle modernity. We were especially drawn to the new Tangley floor lamp, admired for its sleek silhouette and smart functionality. Its movable double stem and adjustable shade make it as practical as it is stylish. Meanwhile, the Zurich lamps, longtime favourites across our hotels, remind us why they remain a masterclass in quiet sophistication.
From Wales, Sgrin House brought pure delight with a collection brimming with colour and whimsy. Rooted in a tradition of folk inspired textiles, their latest designs play with bold palettes and painterly charm. From lively geometrics to expressive florals, each fabric feels like a small work of art, brightening sofas, cushions or wall panels while balancing playfulness with refinement.
We ended the day on a high note with Andrew Martin’s unveiling of Harvest Moon, a collection we proudly created with their team. Blending earthy warmth with a soft celestial glow, this launch is especially meaningful to us, embodying the creative spirit of the Kit Kemp Design Studio. Together we have crafted a palette of warm terracottas, moonlit neutrals and tactile weaves that feels grounded yet dreamlike, perfectly suited to spaces that invite conversation and creativity.
Focus 2025 was a true celebration of design’s power to uplift. From heritage houses steeped in tradition to playful new voices and inspired collaborations, every showroom opened a new world of possibility. Walking through the Design Centre felt like stepping into a series of beautifully imagined interiors, where colour, texture and light came together to tell stories waiting to be lived.