DHS | Helena Sellergren

TEXTILE COLLECTIONS FOR DESIGN HOUSE STOCKHOLM/HEMTEX 2012/2013

PRESS ELLE INTERIEUR 10:2011

A big bluebell and a poetic text is the pattern on this comforter case in soft satin, 210x150cm

Here my pattern WILDMEADOW

A nice summer pattern with plants and flying birds on soft satin cotton

Comforter case with a big bluebell and a poetic text, on soft satin cotton 150x210cm

Little summer cushion 45x45cm with wild plants and butterflies

Tablecloths 150x150cm round, wild plants in two blue colors and butterflies

A big tablecloths 145x250cm on thick cotton linen fabric, wild plants in two blue colors and butterflies

Comforter case with romantic summer patterns with plants and flying birds, soft satin cotton 210x150cm

Presentation of the collection the 31 of August 2011

Kitchen towel in nice linen, with wild plants, texts and butterflies, 45x65cm

Kitchen towel with poetic text and dragonfly, high quality linen, 45x65cm

A collection based on high quality in textiles and philosophy: fewer objects in our homes but more beautiful and higher qualities!

BLUE DREAMS (BLÅ DRÖMMAR) was the first collection that DHS helped me to realize in 2012/2013 in Sweden...and the idea was to create more quality and poetry into our daily life. They were then sold in 200 Hemtex shops in the Nordic Countries.

To dream about the summer, the wild meadows, the butterflies and the birds...was the feeling we wanted to create. I used quite "wild" flowers and plant images, that I combined with fragments from my father's poems telling us to "live more in the present moment".

I handprinted all products in my studio and the textile printing factory in Sweden (Rydboholm) then tried to find the same handprinted qualities. (Camilla Larsson helped me a lot !) It was fantastic to work with the old Swedish factory... I also made all the colour nuances, especially for this project.

Comforter case with pillow in soft satin cotton. Big lime leaves falling with branches. A very free motif!

Little cushion 45x45 with plant in red and gray on raw linen

Cushion 45x45cm Cotton, DITITALPRINT

Tablemat 35x45cm Branch and leafs with poetic text "as long as the leaves are falling" Raw linen

Little kitchentowel on raw linen, red bird on a branch and a poetic text: "wait for your bird that will come", red hanger
50x70cm

Tray with made by woodlayers in a swedish factory

TABLE RUNNER "Autumn poetry", 45x150cm Grayish and red leaves on raw linen

Curtain 140x210cm with big lame leaves and branches (quite japanese)
High quality thin linen

Tablerunner BLUEMEADOW with with plants and poetic texts, 45x150cm, cotton canvas

Cushion 45x45cm, white plant and poetry on darkblue, cotton canva

KITCHEN TOWEL POETRY, 50x70cm, cotton with blue hanger

Kitchentowel with wild plant, blue hanger, 50x70cm, raw cotton

AUTUMN POETRY was the next collection, in reddish and greyish colours on linen and cotton. We then did BLUE DREAMS 2 for spring 2013 with a lot of indigo blue textiles.

The collections were sold for two years in Hemtex shops, and very appreciated. An alternative to the bright colours and simple forms in Ikeas textile collections and more inspired by a fragile and poetic beauty in nature, combined with the poetic fragments.

For the moment these products are sold out, but I'm working on doing a reproduction soon. For me, it is too sad that people can't live with these poetic products any more...

DIGITAL PRINT FROM PAINTINGS: we did one cushion from my painting - the little Robin. See more

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