Vanessa Sayce | Owner | 07733 263844
Marmalade House Design celebrates its 15th birthday with not only a fresh re-brand and a new website, but a goodly amount of marmalade cake and bubbles. It feels very apt now to change our name slightly to Marmalade House Design, from The Marmalade House, says founder and CEO Vanessa Sayce, because of the direction the company is moving in. We feel the name is synonymous with style, home, comfort, reliability and welcome; all of which we embody in our work.
Over the years, Marmalade House Design has evolved from painting furniture with Annie Sloan Chalk paint, to becoming a highly successful award-winning design and styling business, with clients in Europe, London, the Cotswolds, and the Southwest. We do still paint specialist pieces of furniture, says Vanessa, but we are evolving into more design-led work in interiors, locations and our own bespoke pieces. Last year we were lucky enough to work with Disney + Studios on the filming of the second series of Jilly Cooper’s ‘Rivals’, and this year sees projects well ahead to the summer.
We are developing our training programme too, and now offer full day courses in professional furniture painting, and design. They are hands-on fully informative days set in our beautiful farmhouse studios in Bath, with a home-cooked farmhouse lunch. We have trained well over 2,000 people now, says Vanessa, and part of our plan going forwards is to take our courses online to a wider audience.
This, together with plans for a new podcast, and a transition of painting to oils on canvas, are just some of the reasons why the next 15 years will be just as developmental and enjoyable as the last. Bring on the bubbly!
