Orla Kiely

One look in the shop (or in my house!) and you'll know I'm a huge Orla fan. I was lucky enough to visit her shop in Covent Garden as well as her offices in London last year and she was as lovely as I imagined her to be. 

Orla Kiely is originally from Ireland, but calls London home. The creative world of Orla Kiely was founded in 1995 to express visually, her love of pattern, colour, texture and rhythm, which as components all play and work together. 

Her instinctive graphic discipline to simplify and stylise everyday motifs and forms adds another dimension. 

With clean orderly repeat constructions and a boldness of scale, her work achieves strength with a very modern quality, while her nostalgia for all things mid century, help make her patterns charming, uplifting and instantly recognizable.