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Sophia Elephant in Antique Gold

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The Sophia Elephant in Antique Gold carries a full botanical embroidery across its entire form — large open peonies in rose-pink and warm cream with amber-gold centres sit alongside smaller daisy forms, scattered buds, and soft coral accents, all connected by spreading stems with olive and sage-green leaves. The embroidery is generous and varied, no two areas reading the same. The ear carries its own cluster of open daisy flowers with raised centres. The ground is a crushed antique gold silk velvet, deep and warm, shifting between amber and darker tobacco tones as the pile moves in the light.

Designed in Germany and made by hand in India, each Sophia Elephant is embroidered on the frame, piece by piece, with fabric dyed to Drechsel's own colour specifications.

Dimensions: 23H × 29L 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.
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