Summer fabric: bold and bright

Summer's style hotseat

Good Housekeeping magazine takes a look at the bold fabrics and colourful embroidered silks that'll inject some summer warmth into any home. Here's the first...

Fifties retro prints are revived in the contemporary linen-cotton fabric - clearly a hit with Marmite the spaniel (who's not usually allowed on chairs!)

Chair covered in Dandelion Clocks fabric, £29.50 a metre, Sanderson. Mirror, £72, from a selection at Graham and Green. Marmite wears a large bow made from Tamika silk, £38 a metre, The Tamika Collection at Harlequin. Hand-made table, £475, Otumpa. Fake dandelion head, £15, Withycombe Fair

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