Timorous Beasties was formed by Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons in 1990. Their successive textile and wallpaper designs vivdly redefined the identity of interiors. Today, their collections and bespoke designs ornament and furnish both residential and commercial spaces, from interiors to exteriors, using a universal range of materials and techniques. Refusing to follow trends, Timorous Beasties' work embodies a unique mastery of diverse pattern, ranging from design that echoes a golden age of copperplate engraving to examples of a distinctly edgy nature, an elegant transgression, a dispaly of chic irreverance. Yet, the studio fully engages a design discourse with textiles history by lending an aesthetic evolution to time-honoured motifs.
