Hamilton Weston

Hamilton Weston was founded over 30 years ago by Robert Weston and Georgina Hamilton, who have always been especially enthusiastic about historical designs, their origins and provenance, the motifs and the colour combinations used .  Many of the designs, often fortuitously rescued from builders’ rubble during work on period properties, look remarkably up to date and exciting, particularly when produced in contemporary colourings.    These have formed the basis of our own wallpaper collection of designs, meticulously redrawn from the original documents discovered by Robert Weston, whose passion was architectural history.

Recent projects include the reproduction of wallpapers for Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton Hampshire, from treasured fragments found in the Austen family cottage, and the recreation of an early 19^th Century design from a tiny piece of wallpaper discovered during the restoration of JMW Turner’s country house, Sandycombe Lodge, now a delightful and fascinating small Museum, situated in East Twickenham.

Wallpapers are enjoying ever increasing popularity with Clients rediscovering the joy to be found in pattern and colour.   We specialise in producing exciting bespoke and site specific wallpaper designs for clients’ individual projects. The inspiration for these, usually drawn from a variety of unusual and treasured artefacts, is unlimited,  and greatly assisted by the ever increasing sophistication of the digital print processes available.

HWW designs have been selected for the set decoration of many film and TV productions, most recently The Darkest Hour, Red Joan, Mary Poppins Returns scheduled for UK release late December 2018, and The Good Liar  (due for release early 2019).

We are proud to represent Marthe Armitage, the Chiswick based Artist, whose beautiful wallpapers are printed by hand in her tiny Studio.

Marthe hand cuts the lino blocks for each of her 35 lively and original botanical and figurative designs, many inspired by the intricate shapes of leaves and plants, birds and insects.  The selected print colour is mixed for each order, then hand rolled onto her printing block for the design to come alive on paper.

Open : Mon - Fri 10 -6  Visits by appointment