Backhausen (Interior Textiles)
Blumenmotive (style)
circa 2000 (?)
A contemporary twist of early twentieth century Viennese motifs, this textile pattern exudes just as much maidenly and unspoilt sweetness as did its ancestral designs. The leaves span the ivory sky with slight flicks to their tips along the curling vines, while the iconic bell-shaped flowers seem to almost swing back and forth in long, sweeping arcs, chiming and gonging. Seen as a whole, the plants’ colours throb like a confectionary hail of never-before-tasted bonbons, a design that could easily paper the ever-lasting corridor walls of Mr. Wonka’s factory. And what is more, with the idea of an unchecked and overpowering force of growth driving each woven spore, seed and unfurling tendril, there is rooted in this textile the continued renewal of originality as spurred from its first relations, and which with each age will likely be revisited, reinterpreted and retouched, but never truly remastered.
