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Established in the 1870s in Spitalfields as a silk weaving company, Warner & Sons was one of the best known 20th century British producers of high quality domestic woven and printed furnishings.
During the 1960s Eddie Squires was the company's Chief Designer of fabrics and later became an Associate Director. A contemporary of Ossie Clark and David Hockney, Squires studied at the Central School of Art in London. He worked as a freelance textile and interior designer before joining Warner & Sons in 1963.
Squires was interested in all aspects of modern art and design, from pop art to space travel. The V&A owns a series of his scrapbooks in which he collected material that inspired him visually, including packaging, postcards and photographs. His research allowed him to create furnishing fabrics which capture the spirit of the decade. Sue Thatcher was a colleague whose designs were also influenced by space exploration and graphic art.