A Career in Fragments

On the eve of retirement from a 30-year international career, a lawyer with an uncommonly refined design sensibility and an incomparable wanderlust approached me with a unique challenge. He disclosed a stash of about 50 laundry bags collected from the great hotels of the world in which he’d been billeted over these years.

As I considered how best to accommodate the shapes and sizes of heraldry, he suggested my Fragments design. A good choice because, itself composed of assorted shapes and sizes of ‘shard’, the design was so accommodating to the material that only one logo needed cropping to fit.

My client had also determined that the optimal use and locus for this patchwork souvenir would be a 5m curtain for his study. Here it is in production and finally in situ, surrounded by the découpage of three decades of working life, a Mayfair studiolo. Enjoy his article on hotel laundry services and other incidentals of world travel here.