The World of Savage Wallflower

Savage Wallflower was raised in a world that worshipped restraint.

She grew up inside a grand, crumbling house where emotion was considered vulgar, colour was a threat, and obedience passed for virtue. Warmth was discouraged. Silence was prized. Beauty existed only when it behaved.

From the moment she arrived - apricot-haired, loud-voiced, and uncontainable - it was clear she did not belong.

She asked too many questions.

She felt too much.

She loved animals more than hierarchy, music more than manners, colour more than approval.

Where others learned to suppress themselves, Flower refused. Her emotions spilled over - joy, rage, devotion - untidy, excessive, impossible to polish away. 

Ignored rather than corrected, she found her refuge beyond the house, roaming the estate with rescued animals at her heels, drawn to the wildness the walls could not contain.

It was there she discovered the Orangery.

An abandoned Victorian relic of stone, glass and iron, half reclaimed by ivy and time. She carried her life into it piece by piece - books, paint, canvas, stolen rugs, makeshift comforts. Inside its fractured light, nature became a collaborator.

Among trailing vines, dripping colour, and watchful animals, she stopped trying to behave.

And in that forgotten Orangery, Savage Wallflower was born - not as a debutante, but as an artist. 

Colour became defiance. Ornament became language. Beauty became a refusal.

And behind the curtain…

I created Savage Wallflower because I couldn’t find cushions that made me happy. I like colour. I like pattern. I like things with stories behind them, and things that are just a little bit wrong.

Savage Wallflower is for people who walk into beige rooms and feel their soul quietly leave their body.

The characters, Savage Hall and all the nonsense surrounding it are part of the world I've built around the designs — but behind them is me, designing every piece and slowly building the kind of shop I wanted to exist.

I don't manufacture the products myself. I work with specialist UK makers and printers who can produce my cushion covers, duvet sets, tea towels, prints and cards to the standard I want. I choose natural fibres and more responsible printing methods wherever I can, to minimise the legacy someone else will eventually have to clean up.

Savage Wallflower isn't a huge interiors company pretending to be a small one. It's a small independent creative business pretending, occasionally, to be an eccentric aristocratic household.

Which is much more fun.

British-born writer, producer and compulsive maker of things, currently based in Aotearoa New Zealand.