Julia Simpson - Étagère

Julia shares her love for the beautiful and unusual through selling items made from antique and handcrafted textiles and objects.

From going to her first country house auction aged 8, buying fragments of fabric and trinkets with her pocket money, to a collection of rarities amassed over decades - and still growing - it’s a joy to be able to share these with others by selling in person at the occasional fair and on line.

After a career in museums, with the National Trust, and environmental organisations, now, from her workshop in the Oxfordshire countryside she curates these often rare survivors and presents them so they can be enjoyed in our homes today. The textiles are mostly eighteenth to early twentieth century, British, European, Asian and African. Some made into cushions or lampshades and the smaller or more fragile pieces crafted into heirloom decorations or framed as the works of art they are.

Julia also sells related antiques, such as sewing tools, boxes, ephemera, and antique Kashmiri candlesticks converted into lamps to complement the shades. Many of her treasures are one offs.

Find out more and follow Julia Simpson: 

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