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    The Artist’s PALETTE

    Mar 30, 2022 4 minutes
    WORDS CATRIONA GRAY
    PHOTOGRAPHS BRITT WILLOUGHBY DYER PORTRAIT JUSTIN POLKEY

    Anyone who is familiar with Sophie Conran’s range of homeware knows that the designer has a deep love of nature. Floral motifs blossom across linen napkins and twine their way around candle holders. There is a plenitude of vases, in different shapes and sizes, designed to hold everything from a couple of delicate stems to a large armful of abundant branches. Even her most well-known line – the long-running tableware collection for Portmeirion – sees a simple white dinner service elevated by a nod to the outdoors, its organic, concentric pattern evoking the ripple of water in a pond or the circles in a tree stump.

    It comes as no surprise, then, to discover

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