ENESCO ANNOUNCES NEW UK SALES TEAM MEMBER Enesco has announced the appointment of Danae Dade to the UK sales team. As part of her new role, Dade will take care of the customers in the South West of England and South Wales. Dade has extensive experience in home & garden gifting and joins Enesco from Fiskars. www.enesco.co.uk RHS AND DEXAM ANNOUNCE TWO MAJOR NEW KITCHEN TEXTILE COLLABORATIONS Following a number of successful collaborations across a wide range of kitchenware since 2020, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has announced two major new collaborations with Dexam, a specialist supplier of kitchen cookware, bakeware and accessories. Launched in August, the new textile ranges – called Birds and Gertrude Jekyll – use designs inspired by artwork from the RHS Lindley Collections, the world’s finest collection of botanical art on high-quality organic cotton to amazing effect. The Birds collection includes an adult apron, a set of two tea towels, double oven gloves and a peg bag. Bringing together modern colours that will brighten up any kitchen and the true beauty of nature, the design of the collection has a stone background, with a heritage-inspired pattern featuring foliage and birds in teal, pink and yellow. The Gertrude Jekyll collection also includes an adult apron, a set of two tea towels, double oven gloves and a peg bag. Its design uses a tile pattern from the marble pavement of the Duomo in Milan contrasted with a floral and leafy spray design, which is reproduced and repeated. Both designs are adapted from the Designs for Carving scrapbook by the pioneering gardening genius Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932). Gertrude Jekyll laid the basis for modern garden design and is credited with popularising an informal, naturalistic look in counterpoint to the rigid, formal landscapes of the Victorian era. She created some 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and America and her influence on garden design continues to this day. Importantly for the RHS, which has a strong sustainability focus, both ranges are made with organically grown cotton yarn, which makes fewer demands on water, reduces soil erosion and does not use hazardous man-made pesticides. Organic cotton farming helps lock CO2 into the soil, mitigating climate change. It also benefits farmers, who can grow additional crops alongside the cotton, and maintains the biodiversity of the soil. www.dexam.co.uk INDUSTRY NEWS 17
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