Elizabeth Morrison’s Dublin home is saturated with Indian crafts
Adorned with Ikat throws and Suzani Drapes, 18th-century Georgian townhouse of designer Elizabeth Morrison, Founder of Jaipur with love is swaddled in Indian threads.
Now based in Dubai for more than a decade, Dublin-based textile designer Elizabeth Morrison’s fondness for India grew long back by being proposed to at misty dawn at the Taj Mahal. Elliott—her now-husband, who had lived in Delhi—took her on a “peacock and polo-filled whirlwind journey through his favorite haunts. Falling into the aesthetic spell of Indian crafts, she launched her homeware brand, From Jaipur With Love in 2013.
Working exclusively with local artisans in the weaving villages of Uttar Pradesh, specializing in customizing and exporting dhurries – thick, patterned rugs handmade in India. she has turned it into a successful business with a devoted following among the design cognoscenti from Palm Beach to Bahrain who adore a refined style and recognizable palette.
Irish and Indian people share a common likeness towards grand statement and strong attachment to glorious crafts of yore hence they are also not devoid of a bewitching charm and enacting a story anywhere they might land.
The bold, scalloped edges and textured-jute designs have been instrumental in Western interior designers who tend to look father from predictable imports and seeing Indian design in a new light—and there are exciting collaborations afoot. They have produced rugs for many of the royal families in the Middle East and in India and are soon to launch a capsule collection with Aerin Lauder (the Hamptons-chic granddaughter of Estée Lauder and a global designer).
She also looks forward to recreating a safari scene from Ranthambore, with jeweled maharajas on horse-back, elephants, and tigers. It will be painted by Jaipur’s finest artist, which is exciting.
The dhurries and fabrics are basically a tribute to India’s craft and design traditions—but with a modern twist. The clients she works with are not looking for machine-made perfection, they enjoy the concept of the human hand.
