Introduction (3)

Kate Blee is a London based textile artist whose work Farr came upon in 1987 at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Moved by the exhibit, he asked her if she would design a collection for his newly opened shop. Thus began a twenty year relationship tha has produced five collections for Christopher Farr.

Rifat Ozbek, the Turkish born fashion designer collaborated with Christopher Farr in 1996, further pulling the fashion world into the accelerating spiral with contemporary design that is still spinning furiously today.

In 1995, the London art world took notice when Farr collaborated with Josef Herman, the renowned post war painter who has studied graphics in Warsaw.

1996 saw the forging of a very important relationship with Allegra Hicks, a trail blazer in her own right in interior design and fashion, that is ongoing and fruitful.

One of the most personally rewarding endeavors for Farr and Bourne came in 1997, which brought them together with the family of Gunta Stölzl, the late Bauhaus designer who was ultimately forced out of the school in 1931 due to the festering right wing sentiments in Germany at that time. With the Stölzl family's blessing, Christopher Farr produced rugs from her original designs from the 1920's and thus ensured belated wider recognition of a genuine design pioneer.

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