Under the expert guidance of Lucy Bathurst, Nest Design blur the lines between functional textiles and art through the medium of soft furnishings.

We make everything from curtains and blinds to wall hangings, 4 posters, headboards and cushions.   Everything is designed and hand made from our magnificent converted Mission Hall in North East London and the magic of this is that it allows for a continuous conversation between both processes.  It means that we can respond to the designs as they are being created, and make any necessary improvements as we go along – thereby ensuring the best possible finished result.

We love working with interesting natural fabrics – vintage linens and lace, hand dyed and hand woven cottons and silks.  Our focus is on sourcing textiles with character and soul and then alchemising these into textile pieces that are suited to the individual needs of the client and aesthetics of their location.

We work with designers and architects, hospitality and private clients and we have turned our hand to everything from soft-furnishing entire hotels to creating colossal 8 metre high wall hangings and curtains.  We’ve furnished gypsy caravans and Indian Palaces, the houses of Beetles and the bedrooms of Stones.   The process of finding a beautiful textile, imagining what it might want to become and then seeing the creative process through to the last stitch still seems to us a form of magic.

Image by Ben Anders – showing Nest’s Verdure wall hangings and postless 4 poster bed