Andrew Martin
One of the fabric houses whose pattern books we keep at the workshop. Tell us the room and the piece, and we will bring the Andrew Martin books to you.
- Founded
- 1978
- Where
- London, England
- Known for
- Globally sourced fabrics, wallpapers and furniture
About Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin was founded in 1978 by Martin Waller, who is still at the heart of the brand. It began in Richmond and moved to Walton Street in South Kensington in 1987, where the showroom still is.
Waller's fabrics and wallpapers are built around global cultures, and became the template for what he called Fusion Interiors, the title of his design book in 2000. He has worked across an unusually wide spread of projects, from films including James Bond, Gladiator and Harry Potter to hotels for Mandarin and Firmdale and the headquarters of Standard Chartered Bank on four continents, and has produced twenty-three books.
In 1996 he started the Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year Award, which the Sunday Times called the Oscars of the design world, and the annual Interior Design Review that goes with it. Past winners include Kelly Hoppen, Nicky Haslam and Martyn Lawrence Bullard.
It is a house for a room that wants some travel in it. Leathers, hides, worn linens and prints that look collected rather than bought, which suits a piece we have rebuilt more than it suits a new one.
Sources, checked in July 2026: andrewmartin.co.uk/our-story
Where we use it.
Reupholstery
Leathers, hides and heavier weaves on an older frame taken back to the wood.
More on thisClub chairs
The house is at its best on a deep, worn-looking chair rather than a delicate one.
More on thisInterior design
A room built from mixed sources that still reads as one idea.
More on thisNot in the digital library, in the room.
We hold this house in the pattern-book room rather than in the online finder, which covers the collections whose swatches we hold. Come and turn the pages, or tell us the room and we will bring the books to you.
Houses that sit well beside it.
- House of HackneyBold botanical prints, made to order in Britain
- Romo2,998 fabrics in the library
Bring the room, we will bring the books.
Send a photograph and a rough size and we will reply with a personal quote, using an average price fabric.