Laura Ashley by Martin Wood
4to. pp. 192. profusely illustrated. bibliography. index. hardcover. dw. [London]: Frances Lincoln, [2009].
NEW.
ISBN-10: 0711228973 / ISBN-13: 9780711228979
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Against the background of Laura Ashley's life - from her birth in South Wales in 1925 to her sudden death in 1985 - Martin Wood tells the story of the iconic brand she and her husband, Bernard, created. Beginning with the textiles they designed and printed at home in their three-room flat in the 1950s, Wood looks at how, when they began designing and selling dresses, blouses and other clothes, and launched a range of household textiles and furnishings, `Laura Ashley style' became a phenomenon.
The story is richly illustrated with more than 200 photographs and drawings, many never previously published, from the company's archives and the Ashley family's private records.