The Animaux characters hold a special place in art, embroidery and Fine Cell Work history. They first appeared in the Animaux tablecloth which was owned by our founder Lady Anne Tree’s mother-in-law, Nancy Lancaster who founded and owned the prestigious interior decorators Colefax & Fowler. The remarkable and highly-skilled embroidery was inspired by renowned French caricaturist J J Grandville’s extraordinary drawings in Les Métamorphoses Du Jour (1828–29), in which individuals with the bodies of men and faces of animals are made to play a human comedy.
Add some unique personality to your home with these cushions, remarkable for the extraordinarily skillful embroidery with which human characteristics are represented in animal facial features.
