Lily Allen in the video for ‘Sleepwalking’
In case you hadn’t heard, Lily Allen has a new album – and it’s full of scandal, intrigue and X-rated lyrics. But in true House & Garden style, we are mostly thinking about the bedding in which Lily Allen is swathed as she emerges from a dry cleaner’s in her ‘Sleepwalking (Visualiser)’ video. (If you’d rather wash your duvet at home, you can follow our advice here.) We are pretty sure that the patterned duvet cover and pillowcase in question are Beata Heuman’s ‘Willow Ink’ design from her beautiful collection, teamed a plain ‘Powder Blue’ pillowcase. We love everything from the interior designer’s range, but now this bedding has definitely shot right to the top of our wish list.
As the name suggests, the ‘Willow Ink’ print is inspired by the distinctive chinoiserie pattern that became popular in 18th-century England, commonly known as Willow pattern. According to the Beata Heuman website, it was actually based on an antique plate that was found on a coastal holiday and developed into a larger-scale pattern. The product description rather charmingly states that it’s ‘like sleeping in a sugar bowl’ – so it’s no wonder that Lily Allen chose to sleepwalk in a heavenly duvet and pillow cocoon as she laments that ‘You won’t love me, You won’t leave me, You don’t touch me’.
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The plain pillowcase against which Lily rests her head – the perfect partner to the ‘Willow Ink’ – looks suspiciously like Beata Heuman’s ‘Powder Blue’ design. Made in Portugal in the same organic cotton percale as the rest of the bedding, it is similarly inspired by antique porcelain. This time it is the pale blue bisque porcelain tableware that became popular in the late 19th century. It has a subtle yet seriously stylish midnight blue piping, which resembles the sort of hand-painted finish you might see on the rim of a saucer. Arguably the perfect choice for a singer who seems to be spilling the tea in her long-awaited album.
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