The Tuileries Lion in Shaded Brown carries its embroidery lightly. Against deep chocolate brown silk velvet, small floral sprigs in pale white, blush and soft blue-grey are scattered across the body, connected by fine stem and leaf work — restrained, almost botanical in its precision. The mane is dense olive-gold fringing, full and tactile, and the tail ends in a small gold tassel that answers it exactly.
Designed in Germany and made by hand in India, each Tuileries Lion is embroidered on the frame, piece by piece, with fabric dyed to Drechsel's own colour specifications. The Shaded Brown colourway — dark, grounded, cool-flowered — is among her most quietly compelling.
Dimensions: 21H × 23L 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.
