Dior Maison’s Lotus homeware is Spring contemporary

Egyptian blue lotus flowers have mesmerised Dior Maison, with its new Lotus homeware assortment arriving in boutiques this month. The ancients revered the blue lotus, and noticed it as an omen that order would comply with chaos, rising, because it does, from murky waters, bringing mild, color and thriller with it. A famous image of rebirth, the Egyptian blue lotus additionally has highly effective religious associations, which is why we see it recur in inventive representations via historical past.

It is apparent why the lotus flower, in its many types, has continued to show an alluring graphic draw for artists and craftsmen. Designers, too, come again to the highly effective floral image repeatedly. And so we’ve got the Dior Maison iteration, Lotus, a Spring-fresh vary of crockery, painted glassware and hand-embroidered desk linen, dreamed up by Dior Maison inventive director Cordelia de Castellane.

Somewhat than drawing her inspiration from the plant’s mystical facet, nonetheless, de Castellane’s Lotus has the standard, rustic attraction of the designer’s personal French nation residence. She has in any case, admitted that she has ‘at all times felt far more like Heidi than a Parisian’. And so right here, the Nineteen Fifties-style palette of washed-out blues and greens provides a fair sweeter contact.

And but, maybe with out realising it, there’s a contact of the metaphysical about Castellane’s glass Salento candlesticks, border-stitch embroidered linen napkins and lotus-festooned dinner-plates, as a result of as a complete, absolutely Lotus factors in direction of Spring’s early arrival. From £100, at Dior Maison