The Dotty Frog in Shaded Brown is covered in spots — round, chenille-textured dots in dusty blue-grey, scattered evenly across deep chocolate brown silk velvet and continuing down each leg to the feet. The effect is graphic and quietly naturalistic at once, closer in feeling to a field guide illustration than a decorative object, though it is unmistakably both.
Designed in Germany and made by hand in India, each Dotty Frog is embroidered on the frame, piece by piece, with fabric dyed to Drechsel's own colour specifications. The Shaded Brown colourway — that particular pairing of warm brown and cool blue — has the specificity of something observed rather than invented.
Dimensions: 10.5H × 15L cm
Hand embroidered silk velvet.
ABOUT the MAKER
Anke Drechsel
Anke Drechsel has worked from her atelier in Karlsruhe since 1986, designing silk velvet cushions and home textiles that are made entirely by hand in India. Each piece is dyed to her own colour specifications and embroidered on the frame by skilled artisans, a process that is slow by intention, and visible in the result. Tessuti carries a curated selection of Drechsel's cushions and decorative objects: plain velvets finished with fringe, and embroidered pieces worked in silk thread on grounds that shift with the light. These are things made to be lived with.
