All the interior designers with paint collaborations (and our favourite shades)
Brand collaborations are always fun, and surely few appeal more to an energetic and creative interior designer than those with paint brands, which (generally) allow them to get stuck in up the elbows in pigments and colourful mixes. Over the last few years, a handful of designers have gifted us with exciting collections, ranging from capsule-style paint ranges with colour options in the low double figures to fully-fledged tonal bonanzas available in various different finishes, too.
What’s exciting about these collaborations is that they tend to reflect these designers’ personalities, meaning Beata Heuman’s paints might end up being visual reflections of her Swedish heritage, while Rose Uniacke’s embody her own subtle taste in design, in variegated but neutral shades and tones. In other words, there’s something to suit every taste, and although some of these collabs are a few years old now, most of them can be found on the secondary market if they’re not still being sold by their original purveyors.
Beata Heuman and Mylands
Colour of choice: “Damp Leaf”
Beata Heuman has always been something of a multihyphenate, conjuring fabric and wallpaper designs for Scandi brand Mille Notti, and a range of lights with Original BTC. Now she has added a collection of paints for Mylands, 24 “considered, vivid and reliable” colours called The Dependables. As you might expect, there’s something happily unpretentious about them, not least in the names: Swedish Beata, who works in London, has combined the two countries in the collection, meaning would-be home decorators can choose from shades including “Crayfish Party”, “Stockholm”, “London Brick” and (perhaps our favourite name) the simple “Pub”. Obviously, they’re gorgeous colours, too.
Kelly Wearstler and Farrow & Ball
Colour of choice: “Citrona”
It’s a few years old now, but Kelly Wearstler’s collab with Farrow & Ball is still among the best known in the brand’s arsenal, not least because it was the first time in the brand’s 75-year history that it embarked on such a partnership with a designer. The American Kelly took as her inspiration the landscape and open spaces of California, her home state; when the collection launched back in 2021, House & Garden editor Hatta Byng observed that “cues range from the gritty patina of the Pacific Coast highway to hazy mornings in Malibu. Kelly talks of California as a happy place, where you can get plenty of sunshine and vitamin D; she describes the salty air that comes in from the ocean, the citrus and palm trees, even the particular green of the inside of a wave, all of which provided inspiration.”
Rose Uniacke and Graphenstone
