With delicate beginnings designing hand-painted glass carafes to replace the plastic water bottles that live on the bedside table or office desk, Petra Palumbo has blossomed into a stylish homeware brand that adds a sense of occasion to even the most mundane of daily rituals.
Infusing aesthetic influences from her Lebanese ancestry and home in Scotland, rich colours, dainty patterns, and natural imagery play together across wallpapers, cutlery, and glassware.
A comforting sense of nostalgia is found throughout Petra’s homeware designs, but the place where this is even more pronounced is in her tile designs. Showcasing the strong influence of Scotland’s colourful heritage, a vibrant set of tartan tiles adds a unique sense of drama whilst Lebanon is honoured in the Beirut and Pomegranate designs.
Cultural whimsy is created in the modern Delft tile collection, featuring iconic architecture from the UK, scenes from the USA, everyday items, wildlife, and disco balls, encouraging you to decorate in a pick and mix of your favourite things, or curate themed spaces.
Petra’s Pinstripe tiles take a simple pattern and offer a delightful selection of shades to make a space your own. These shades are also matched across the Delft collection, and with decorative plaited and studded trim to create completely personalised designs and interiors that sing with joy. And finally the Ditsy tiles with matching trim offer quaint beauty all over, or topped with a Ditsy dado. Enjoy the look to full effect with a matching grout.
A new post by Hanna Simpson, Diary of a Tile Addict, October 2024.