SPRING GARDEN: A ROMANTIC EVOLUTION
New for 2025, The Design Archives introduces the Spring Garden wallpaper collection, bringing the romance of an English country garden indoors.
Designed to coordinate with the beloved Spring Garden fabrics, the collection blends vintage florals and elegant stripes with a timeless yet contemporary sensibility. Each wallpaper is crafted in the UK, celebrating the brand’s heritage of design and craftsmanship.
From Fabric to Wallpaper — A Natural Progression
Following the success of the original Spring Garden fabric collection, which reimagined historic floral prints from the Crowson archive, this new wallpaper series continues the story in a new medium. Just as the fabrics brought the garden’s gentle hues and soft textures to upholstery and drapery, the wallpapers now extend that sense of harmony and grace to the walls themselves.
A Heritage of Design
Founded by Sharon Crowson, The Design Archives is a London-based boutique interiors brand specialising in printed textiles and wallpaper. Sharon’s creative direction draws deeply from the Crowson archive, a collection of over 5,000 historic design documents amassed by her father, Derek Crowson, founder of Crowson Fabrics Ltd.
Sharon describes her approach as instinctive and authentic — “I stay true to what I know and love, guided by intuition rather than trends,” she explains. “Using digital technology to recolour and rescale antique artworks allows me to reimagine traditional designs for today, while maintaining their timeless appeal.”
Through this philosophy, The Design Archives continues to celebrate pattern, colour and texture rooted in classic British design, while evolving with contemporary sensibilities. The result is a body of work that feels at once familiar and new — echoing the past, yet perfectly suited to modern interiors.
Sharon Crowson
Blooming with Possibility
The Spring Garden wallpaper collection offers three charming florals and a classic deckchair stripe — designs that can stand alone or be paired beautifully with the coordinating fabric range. Whether used to create a statement wall or a soft, layered scheme, the collection captures the enduring beauty of an English garden, reinterpreted for today’s homes.
