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Home  >  Style at Home >  Furniture Designers Guild Established in 1970 Designers Guild is a leading worldwide luxury home furnishing brand. Designers Guild designs and wholesales furnishing fabrics, wallcoverings, upholstery, bed and bath under the Designers Guild and other brands throughout Europe and worldwide. Tricia Guild founded Designers Guild in Chelsea, London in 1970, one of the most influential and creative forces in Interior Design. Since then, the company has achieved international renown for a wide variety of home and lifestyle products; most notably huge and varied ranges of furnishing fabrics and wallcoverings, bedlinen, blankets and towels, furniture ,carpets and rugs, paint, stationery and leather goods. The company is headed by Tricia Guild, founder and Creative Director and her brother Simon Jeffreys, Chief Executive. The Designers Guild philosophy is to combine creativity and innovation with the highest levels of quality: quality of design, product, service and people. From its roots in London the company has grown extensively to become a major global brand in home furnishing. The Designers Guild group now employs over 200 people in the United Kingdom and overseas with wholesale offices and showrooms in London, Paris and Munich and a network of agents and distributors in over 40 countries worldwide. Over 65% of sales are overseas and Designers Guild has twice won the Queens Award for export. The group has also launched a licensing division to manufacture and sell fabrics and wallpapers under other brand names, utilising the extensive sales and distribution network built up to handle the Designers Guild brand, namely Ralph Lauren, William Yeoward, Cath Kidston and Jasper Conran. The group is based in a modern purpose built Head office in Notting Hill London and has its principal flagship store in the Kings Road, London and a 66,000 sq.ft. distribution centre in West London. The Designers Guild product range is sold by leading home furnishing outlets, department stores and Interior Designers throughout the UK and overseas. Added on: 06-8-2001 Hits: 1327