All Things Considered

Linda Florence
Posted by Kate Sullivan

Earlier this month I spent a day re-learning how to screen-print at London Printworks Trust. Whilst I was there, London based textile designer Linda Florence, was in the process of printing realms and realms of striking wallpaper for a client in York.

Linda's style combines layers of bold colours, patterns, graphic illustrations and unusual surfaces such as the interactive paper where you scratch off a silver layer like a scratch card.

Another great and unusual design is her striking white patterned floor named the 'Sugar Dance' which was exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in January. The floor consisted of icing sugar laid out using stencils, then danced upon by professionl ballroom dances where the dancers created there own patterns in the dust as they moved about the space.

There is a video of Linda laying the floor at the V&A on YouTube. Click here to see it.

Posted by Kate Sullivan on April 2nd, 2008