Sybil and the Garden

Sybil and the Garden:

From her dedication to traditional materials and crafts to her fascination with the floral motif, Sybil imbued every design whether in haute couture or in-home furnishings, with her own unique brand of femininity.

Sybil found much inspiration in the natural world, her love of gardens and botanicals inspired many of her patterns.

”Other people can walk down a garden path, see a rose and stop to admire it,” she said. ”But I look at the same rose and ponder how I can use it to decorate a dessert plate.”

Throughout her career as a designer, Sybil drew from the natural world, incorporating flowers from linen and cotton plants into the embroidery and lacework of her creations.

Photographed by the biggest photographers of the fashion world, Richard Avedon, Dormer, etc; the models here show off Sybil’s couture surrounded by nature.

Keen to bring the outside in, Sybil Connolly created fabric, wallpaper and bed linen inspired by her garden for luxury goods companies such as Brunschwig et Fils, Schumacher and Martex. 

See here the sample book of wallpapers created for Gramercy, and her application of these designs in her interiors of the Swiss Cottage she helped to renovate in Cahir, Tipperary.