Tobias Vernon, the founder of the gallery and design studio 8 Holland Street met Molly Goddard, the co-founder of the vintage-inspired pyjama brand Desmond & Dempsey, over orange wine at a launch party in her south London studio. When they bonded over a shared love of leisure time and, as Goddard puts it, “how our most intimate surroundings play into our mood,” a home goods collaboration was born. Vernon — whose online boutique sells midcentury design classics such as armchairs clad in the Bauhaus hero Anni Albers’s woven tapestries — sourced several pieces of furniture: a 1950s curvilinear Italian sofa with stained beech feet and, from the 1960s, a pair of French cubic armchairs on a painted steel base and a shell-shaped woven rattan chair by the wicker master Vittorio Bonacina. Goddard then chose the upholstery fabric from her label’s existing pyjama prints. Two patterns were lifted from the Desmond & Dempsey archives: Chango, a punchy blue-and-peach monkey print, which is repeated across the contours of the sofa; and Medina, a fruit salad of chunky stripes with a hand-drawn look in juicy hues that covers the chair set. Marque, a swirling black-and-white ’70s print, was selected from Desmond & Dempsey’s latest collection to embellish the wicker seat’s cushion. From $2,200 for the wicker chair, desmondanddempsey.com; 8hollandstreet.com.
