CASE STUDY
Sophie Paterson Interiors
When an interior designer chooses flooring for their own workspace, the choice says a great deal. It has to reflect the studio’s design sensibility, inspire the team every day, and make the right impression on every client who walks through the door.
For its new offices, Sophie Paterson Interiors created a workspace that feels as considered as the homes the studio designs for its clients. Pale oak joinery, bespoke plan chests and a dedicated design library sit behind leafy views and Georgian-style windows. The flooring needed to tie these spaces together. Eaton Square installed [XX]m² of Valencia herringbone in the shade Chalk throughout, from the library and meeting area to the staircase and desks.
A Tailored Foundation for a Design Studio
Why Valencia
Natural floorcoverings such as jute bring a relaxed warmth that sits beautifully within a refined interior. Yet in practice, natural fibres can be difficult to live with. They mark easily, can be hard to clean and may fade in strong sunlight. In a working studio, with daily footfall, rolling office chairs and constant movement between desks and sample shelves, those weaknesses quickly show.
Valencia solves this. It has all the character of a jute weave but is woven from polypropylene fibres, giving a flatweave that resists stains, fading and water. Spills can be dealt with quickly, sunlight won’t bleach the colour, and its commercial wear rating means it is built for heavy daily use, while its look remains firmly residential.
That performance makes Valencia one of the most versatile carpets in the Eaton Square collection. It is equally at home indoors and out, suited to living spaces, stairs, terraces and covered outdoor areas. One product can carry a single, consistent look from inside a building to the spaces beyond. Available in five neutral shades, in a standard weave or herringbone, it can be supplied as fitted carpet or as a made-to-measure rug.
Why Herringbone
The herringbone was chosen for its tailored quality, which echoes the crisp lines of the studio’s bespoke joinery. Its directional pattern also gives structure to the larger open areas, so the floor feels deliberate rather than simply plain.
A Calm Backdrop for the Design Library
The heart of the new offices is the design library, lined with plan chests, woven storage baskets and shelves of stone, glass, metal and timber samples. Here, materials are laid out, compared and combined every day, so the floor beneath them needed to stay quietly in the background.
Chalk’s soft, pale tone brightens the room and lets the samples speak for themselves. The fine weave sits naturally alongside the rattan baskets, bleached oak and stone-coloured worktops. As the close-up photography shows, the herringbone changes subtly as the light moves across it through the day.
Precision in the Installation
Flatweaves are among the most demanding carpets to install. Unlike a cut-pile carpet, where the pile can disguise a join, a flatweave shows every seam. Cutting and joining it is a precise, time-consuming process, and a herringbone pattern makes it harder still, because any misalignment interrupts the chevrons.
Across [XX]m² of flooring, Eaton Square’s fitters took particular care to keep the pattern running cleanly through the studio, aligning the weave at every join so the herringbone reads as one continuous surface. Valencia’s 4m width kept seams to a minimum, and where joins were needed, they were positioned to fall away from the main walkways.
The staircase called for the same precision. The carpet was fitted to each tread and riser so the pattern flows down the stairs, picked out by low-level step lights beneath a bronze and glass balustrade. It is the kind of detail most visitors will never consciously notice, which is exactly the point.
One Floor Throughout
A single product carries the same look through every part of the offices, from the stairs to the busiest working areas, where the flatweave copes easily with office chairs on castors. In rooms flooded with daylight, the Chalk tone will keep its fresh appearance for years to come.
A Designer’s Choice
For Eaton Square, being chosen by Sophie Paterson Interiors for the studio’s own offices is a particular endorsement. It is a space where every material is scrutinised daily, and where the floor has to earn its place.
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