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TIMELINE

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Logo designed by Antony Little for Biba

Antony Little collaborates on interior design of hip Biba shop at the height of the ‘Swinging Sixties’

Osborne & Little hand-printed wallpapers are awarded the prestigious accolade for consumer products from The Council of Industrial Design, 1970, presented by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh

FITZHERBERT

QUEEN’S KNIGHT

OMAR

SUNSTITCH

Osborne & Little introduces WEAVES, a collection of two-coloured jacquard weaves

FOLIA wins the Grand Prix at the 1979 Paritex Exhibition in Paris

The very first advertisement in our quirky campaign which often involves a play on the name of the collection. The oars, borrowed from a boathouse on the Thames, were covered by matching tiny strips of wallpaper. The fire brigade had to be called to the studio when the huge tank started leaking!

ZANDRA RHODES COLLECTION

The Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris, celebrates 100 best advertisements since 1950, with a major exhibition including an Osborne & Little advertising image, shot by photographer Charles Settrington to advertise the SHADOWS fabric, 1990

SHADOWS ADVERTISEMENT

ISEULT NEGRI

CARTOUCHE COLLECTION

LAMORNA ADVERTISEMENT

Osborne & Little staff newsletter, 1998

NEGRI

AGATE

Asuka wallpaper wins wallcovering category at Elle Deco International Design Awards, 2004

VINTAGE SILKS ADVERTISEMENT

Osborne & Little wins the commission to create two designs for British Airways to be used in Heathrow’s Terminal 5 and the BA lounges worldwide, 2008

TARAMANA

BEST IN SHOW

Osborne & Little collaborates with Penguin Books to create a wallpaper design using the iconic book covers

Osborne & Little Showroom, King’s Road, London, 2014

Osborne & Little wins Best Window Display, Rive Gauche, Paris Déco Off, 2014, with CORNICHE TRIMMINGS advertising campaign

SPRING COLLECTIONS 2018 ADVERTISEMENT

PETER OSBORNE

TRAILING ORCHID

OCEAN
Made from recycled plastic bottles

SYMPHONIA
Fabric panel

IRISA ADVERTISEMENT

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Osborne & Little is co-founded by brothers-in-law, Peter Osborne and Antony Little with a new wave of bolder, large-scale geometric handprinted designs, 1968

Antony & Jennifer Little

Peter & Felicity Osborne

“Robin Roberts, owner of Clarence House in New York, was simply cruising London in a taxi when out of the window he saw something terrifi c! He went right to work and now an interior designer can take the excitement sitting down at Clarence House” House & Garden USA, March 1969

Peter Osborne Home Furnishings Daily, USA, Wednesday, August 21, 1968

TUDOR ROSE

STRAWBERRY HILL

OPHELIA

SPEED & FURY

The Osborne & Little flagship showroom opens on the King’s Road, London in 1972

Peter Osborne and Antony Little

SWANS

“At IDI (Interior Design International) Osborne & Little launched a new range of ‘plains’ which are anything but plain. The papers reproduce the brush fi nishes achieved by the expert painter including marbling, graining, stipple and drag painting. With such skills becoming a rarity, and consequently prohibitively expensive, these new papers are an excellent alternative giving a very similar effect at a fraction of the cost.” Interior Design, September 1981

Peter Osborne and Antony Little in the studio at Temperley Road, London

SIRIUS AND STIPPLEGLAZE

“OSBORNE & LITTLE could be said to have done for wallpapers what Torvill & Dean did for skating – that is they transformed the potentially mundane into an art form”

Lucia van der Post, Financial Times, Saturday February 9, 1985