Collaboration with Emery Walker Trust

RNS Number : 8431M

Sanderson Design Group PLC

26 May 2022

 

RNS REACH

26 May 2022

SANDERSON DESIGN GROUP PLC

("Sanderson Design Group", the "Company" or the "Group")

Morris & Co. collaboration with the Emery Walker Trust

Sanderson Design Group PLC (AIM: SDG), the luxury interior design and furnishings group, is pleased to announce that it has signed a sponsorship agreement with the Emery Walker Trust, the charity that preserves the London house of Emery Walker, a typographer, engraver and friend of William Morris. Under the agreement, the Company's Morris & Co. brand will launch a collection of fabrics, wallpapers, bedding and homewares based on inspirational items in Emery Walker's House, a museum to the Arts and Crafts movement.

The inspirational items in the house, in London's Hammersmith, include original cushions, rugs, prints and ceramics, including some early Morris & Co. products such as carpet and wall hangings.

It is expected that The Emery Walker House Collection by Morris & Co. will be launched in the Spring of next year. Further details about Emery Walker's House are available at this link: https://www.emerywalker.org.uk/

Hugh Belsey, Chairman of the Emery Walker Trust, said: "Emery Walker's House, at 7 Hammersmith Terrace in West London, was decorated and furnished in the nineteenth century by William Morris and other leading members of the Arts and Crafts movement. We are delighted that Sanderson Design Group has taken inspiration from original items in our collections, to create a new range of products that will be launched in early 2023. My fellow trustees join me in thanking most warmly Sanderson Design Group for their inspirational generosity."

Lisa Montague, Sanderson Design Group's Chief Executive Officer, commented: "We are delighted to have signed this agreement with the Emery Walker Trust, the custodian of the treasure trove of Arts and Crafts designs in Emery Walker's House. We have developed a strong relationship with the Trust during the past two years, and helped them with a small grant during Covid. We are excited by the potential of this sponsorship agreement and the exciting new Morris & Co. collection that we expect to launch next Spring."

For further information:

Sanderson Design Group PLC	c/o Buchanan [phone]
Lisa Montague, Chief Executive Officer
Mike Woodcock, Chief Financial Officer
Caroline Geary, Company Secretary
Investec Bank plc	[phone]
David Anderson / Alex Wright / Ben Farrow
Buchanan	[phone]
Mark Court / Sophie Wills / Toto Berger

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Notes for editors:

About Sanderson Design Group

Sanderson Design Group PLC is a luxury interior furnishings company that designs, manufactures and markets wallpapers, fabrics and paints. In addition, the Company derives licensing income from the use of its designs on a wide range of products such as bed and bath collections, rugs, blinds and tableware.

Sanderson Design Group's brands include Zoffany, Sanderson, Morris & Co., Harlequin, Scion, Clarke & Clarke and Archive by Sanderson Design.

The Company has a strong UK manufacturing base comprising Anstey wallpaper factory in Loughborough and Standfast & Barracks, a fabric printing factory, in Lancaster. Both sites manufacture for the Company and for other wallpaper and fabric brands.

Sanderson Design Group employs approximately 600 people and its products are sold worldwide. It has showrooms in London, New York, Chicago, Amsterdam and Dubai.

Sanderson Design Group trades on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SDG.

For further information please visit: www.sandersondesigngroup.com

 

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