Anemones in Light
Kate Moss creates ‘Anemones in Light’
British Style: De Gournay
Famed for its hand-painted wallpapers, de Gournay is a British brand and family business founded in 1984.
The hand painted wallpaper depicts the titular flower – said to have sprung from Aphrodite’s tears for Adonis, and also considered a universal symbol of good luck – in cascading charcoal-coloured garlands pierced by gilded shards of light.
Greek Mythology describes the Anemone as springing from the tears of goddess Aphrodite as it mixed with the blood of her mortal human lover Adonis. Hand painted onto a textured and distressed Xuan Paper ground, this tonal ‘Dusk’ colourway was joined by a second colourway showing rainbow beams breaking through clouds of white anemones on a Blue Grey dyed silk ground.
