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ART BOOKS

During 2018, Heti spent time in South Africa, while we designed the S/S19 Collection. It was at this time that we also began musing of a Homeware Collection; What we researched and explored during that summer would become the foundation blocks of the Delta Homeware collection.

Heti, with an art-hunger typical of her, found an antique bookshop in Johannesburg. Of the books she brought back to London, a couple served as direct inspiration for our collections. Below are some of the images we loved and were inspired by.

- Chloë Browne-Beck

“Two locusts in light Indian red, with slight marginal touches of ocherous yellow here and there, and black baobab tree. From the Cave of the Spotted Giraffe at Mabala, on the farm Machete…in the Zoutpansberg district, northern Transvaal. The late Professor C. van Riet Low, who made the copy, writes”

Two Interesting things emerged from these paintings, viz. the baobab and the locust - the latter because of the part it probably played in the economy of the artist. The former is of interest because of its symbolic significance. I say “symbolic” because the vast majority of paintings of women in the gallery of the Limpop have life-sized seed pods of baobab instead of breasts.

Extract from Plate XVII

The Mara Napkin sets, here the Zebra + Horses combo, are directly inspired by the above artworks and books. We loved the Cave Paintings and simple and bold motifs. Mara, 100% Irish Linen. 45cm Square.