Article Source: Timorous Beasties
Last Updated: 8 July 2024 11:31
EDINBURGH, July 2024
Timorous Beasties, the internationally acclaimed and multi-award-winning studio renowned for its unique maximalist designs, star power brand collaborations, and global fan base, has announced it will open a major new retail showroom in Edinburgh on Thursday the 18th of July, 2024.
Located at 35 Northumberland Street in the capital’s vibrant New Town, the impressive two-storey showroom, spanning 2,500 sq. ft. and open to the public, will house the entire Timorous Beasties collection; a portfolio of well over 500 original designs. The complete collection will include luxury wallpapers, fabrics and home accessories, as well as smaller gift items for the home – each distinctly edgy design embodying the covetable elegance, chic irreverence and cult status of Timorous Beasties.
The fantastical world of Timorous Beasties - where plants, animals and society are visually inextricable, often subversive, sometimes unsettling and always beautiful – has straddled the stratospheres of cool highbrow, civic culture and mass commercial appeal with remarkable success since Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons founded the studio in Glasgow in 1990. Now, widely recognised as the nation’s foremost design tastemakers, the new Timorous Beasties showroom in Edinburgh will join the brand’s existing Glasgow and London stores to create a retail trilogy.
To celebrate the opening in Scotland’s capital city, a number of special installations and displays within the showroom will take visitors on a journey of this much-loved brand, which counts a far-reaching roll call of world class collaborations to its credit. The expansive list is deservedly heady: from Nike to Kate Bush to Claridges, V&A Museum, UK Supreme Court, The Art Institute of Chicago, Johnnie Walker, Harrods and Royal Opera House, to the illustrations for The Royal Bank of Scotland bank notes, and perhaps most serendipitously, given the studio is named after the poem To a Mouse, The Robert Burns Museum in Alloway.
The showroom experiences’ visitors will enjoy as they journey throughout 35 Northumberland Street include a showcase of Timorous Beasties’ new Stucco collection of elegant wallcoverings and fabrics, and lifestyle vignettes guaranteed to excite and inspire. The Timorous Beasties team will be on hand to offer a Design Consultation service with sample books available to browse, as well as a dedicated meeting space for trade clients.
Speaking ahead of the opening, Alistair McAuley, Co-Founder of Timorous Beasties says:
“We are delighted to be opening this new showroom in Edinburgh, our second retail space in Scotland, and the home city of many of our loyal and longstanding customers. This destination two-storey space on Northumberland Street, in the vibrant and creative heart of the capital’s New Town neighbourhood, will allow us to showcase the full depth and breadth of Timorous Beasties’ collections. In addition to selecting our unique products for home interiors, and receiving personalised one-to-one design and colour advice from our expert and passionate team, we hope our customers will enjoy the experience the new showroom will offer. With over 30 years of Timorous Beasties’ pattern and print heritage on display, this is a wonderful and timely opportunity for the public to view the studio’s body of work in its entirety for the first time, and have the opportunity to purchase their favourite Timorous Beasties designs.”
Image: Alistair McAuley & Paul Simmons
Image credit: Colin Mearns /The Herald Picture Agency.
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