Ep. 76: Tilton Fenwick's Anne Maxwell Foster & Suysel dePedro Cunningham

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show, we've got design duo Anne Maxwell Foster and Suysel dePedro Cunningham of the design firm Tilton Fenwick. This pattern powerhouse is known for mixing prints and the bold color palettes they work into their clients' homes. In addition to their wallpaper and fabric lines, they're moms, masters of collaboration, and big Ballard fans! What You'll Hear on the Show: Why their partnership makes their designs strongerHow Anne and Suysel met and what sparked their initial creative projectsWe talk about their fabric collections for Duralee and what inspires their printsAnne and Suysel tell us about their most recent Duralee collection, inspired by a trip to PortugalWe talk about the design process of their patternsWhy surprising color palettes are their favorite way to refresh vintage printsWhy using a textile collection book can help you if you're intimidated by the volume of fabrics at a design centerHow they mix patterns together and why fabrics are a great place to startWe talk about their own homes and how often they're changing things aroundWhat they learned about their fabric collections and how it changed the direction of their second collectionThe most expensive fabric they've ever used in a project and why they try to keep fabrics

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs.
0:03.6	We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator.
0:07.0	So we'll be interviewing interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the design world,
0:11.2	sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and also answering your decorating questions.
0:15.7	I'm Caroline, I run the Ballard Designs blog, How to Decorate.
0:18.7	And I'm Taryn. I'm on the product design team at Ballard.
0:21.2	And I'm Karen and I head up branding at Ballard.
0:23.4	And we're your hosts.
0:24.5	Hi.
0:29.2	Okay, today on the show, we have Ann Maxwell Foster and Suissell to Pedro Cunningham of Tilton Fenwick.
0:41.3	They are a design duo known for their mixing patterns and colorful spaces.
0:48.9	They've been featured in House Beautiful, Traditional Home, Lux Magazine, Domino, all the the places all the shelter met all your favorite
0:56.0	all the big ones and y'all also have a fabric line and a wallpaper line did i miss anything
1:04.1	no that's it that's it that's it that's a lot not no big deal and your mothers mothers. And my mom. I mean, you're the whole package.
1:12.1	Yes. And you guys met, didn't you meet when you were fairly young? No, but everybody thinks that because of the dorm thing.
1:20.0	Because Tilton Fenwick is our dorm names from college. So everyone assumes that we went to college together, which is benefits me because I'm actually seven years older than Anne is.
1:28.3	But everyone thinks we went to college together.
1:30.3	But we actually went to two different universities.
1:31.3	I went to Tufts University.
1:32.3	She went to Boston College, and we're seven years apart.
1:35.3	And you are, so you're Northeasterners.
1:37.3	Yes.
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