"We’re also satirising the incredibly conservative textiles world. You only have to have a print of an evil-looking bird and everyone freaks out. And we want to portray the Glasgow the tourist board ignores".
Lovely design collective Timorous Beasties have been going since 1990. This is their most famous work – the Glasgow Toile, a contemporary urban street scene with a drug addict shooting up, a lad in tracksuit peeing against a tree, etc. produced in the style of early 1800s Toile de Jouy wallpaper. Kind of like a 20th Century ‘Gin Alley’.
"I love the idea of an upper middle-class fabric depicting the underbelly of urban chaos," explains co founder Paul Simmons:
We’re also satirising the incredibly conservative textiles world. You only have to have a print of an evil-looking bird and everyone freaks out. And we want to portray the Glasgow the tourist board ignore.
If you fancy ignoring the ironies of a £78 lampshade depicting a homeless person, SCP has a range of furniture and wallpaper featuring the Timorous Beasties Toiles.
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