New Designer Bedding from English Heritage

English Heritage have launched a new luxury bedding range in association with Christy, a long established UK bed linen and towel supplier. The designs have taken inspiration from the Art Deco era and in particular the intricate and ornate architecture and design of two of the UK’s grandest stately homes.

Down House, Kent, and Eltham Palace, on the outskirts of London, are markedly different properties but both have provided Christy with a wealth of design options. Annie Kemkaran-Smith, Collections Curator for both Eltham Palace and Down House, invited Christy’s designer Rachel Paley to Eltham to explore the Courtaulds’ approach to architecture and interior design. ‘Eltham Palace has so much warmth for such a glamorous house,’ says Rachel. ‘You can sense that the Courtaulds lived life to the full here.’

The resulting Eltham Palace range is contemporary but, above all, authentic. It includes ‘Clarice’, an elegant jacquard weave with a Greek key motif and a luxurious black velvet border and piping.

This evokes Eltham’s dramatic black dining room doors, while the ‘Park Lane’ design takes the same key motif but embroiders it as a panel on the duvet cover and an edging on each pillowcase. Both designs use pure cotton fabric with a high thread count, in shades of charcoal and warm taupe, reflecting Eltham’s marquetry walls and ebonised doors. This newly launched designer bedding is available online at various designer bed linen website’s