Launching with a collection of Trellis fabrics in 2024 Nuthall Temple is the new joint creative venture from Daniel Slowik and Benedict Foley.
Taking its name from the one-time Nottinghamshire home of Daniel’s grandfather, Nuthall Temple was built in the 1750s, inspired by the Renaissance ideals of Palladio - beauty, strength, and utility. The same ideals have continued to inspire and inform the our designs, reforming the great lost house of Nuthall as a new home for this collection.
Our fabrics have all been printed in the UK by hand, using a highly skilled mill that continues a long tradition. The value of the fabric is determined by the cost of production - the stuff itself - and we have been happy to begin using these designs in our own work. All stories draw a number of strands together at their inception, the Vitruvian scale and geometry of the trellis structure is repeated throughout our three designs, but they were equally inspired by the playful wit of 20th century trompe l'oeil decoration. The outcome is a balance of clarity and light-heartedness.
Our studio is based in East Anglia, surround by a landscape created by Humphrey Repton in a converted stable block on a farm part Tudor, part Soane. The inspiration of the past is in many ways our wellspring, the beauty of the English countryside, our love of old and storied buildings, all things that have distilled into this collection. Our interest in the past is in things done well and refined over time, those things that endure. This collection speaks both for longevity and for enjoying what is good now, in this moment in time.
"The idea of living in a beautiful but ordered environment is as attractive today as it was in the 18th century - an aesthetic that is equally romantic and rational"
Daniel Slowik
“A playful pattern that is as at home in a cottage as a castle is my idea of heaven. A touch of wit, light on the whimsy. Something both joyful and useful!”
Benedict Foley
Daniel Slowik
Daniel Slowik is an interior decorator and antiques dealer with an international roster of residential projects. He is currently working on properties in London, Rome, New York and rural Denmark. After studying history of art, he began his career in the British Picture Department at Sotheby’s, later working for The Royal Collection at Kensington Palace, before joining long established English decorating firm, Colefax & Fowler in 1997. Daniel established his eponymous design studio in 2021, he has developed a reputation for comfortable, antique filled rooms that meld the English country house aesthetic with the comfort of modernity and a couture attention to detail.
Benedict Foley
Growing up against the shifting skyline of 90s Singapore made designer and interior decorator Benedict Foley keenly aware of the fragile beauty of the past. After reading classical archaeology and ancient history at Edinburgh, in 2008 he started work at umbrella makers, James Smith & Sons. A collector since childhood, in 2016 he began selling paintings and antiques, before setting up art and homewares company A.Prin, known for theatrical frames, sconces and other enlivening interior detailing. Today, Benedict focuses his expressive eye on a range of residential projects, collaborating with creative clients on transportive interiors that cleverly play with received notions of good taste.