Not only do we love what we do, we also love to talk about it! Here are some of the news, views and reviews that we just couldn’t keep to ourselves.
Celebrating the official start of Farley prop hire, February 1962
In a picture framer in Lambs Conduit Street 1961, a chance encounter with an eminent film designer, who asked ‘would you like to hire the picture in the window for a film’, set things in motion and shortly after, The House of Farley was born.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin….
When it comes to seating, as important as the frames is the fabric that’s put on them. The Farley workshops are currently restoring many of the suites of furniture and runs of chairs that make up our extensive seating collection.
Find out more about the beautiful new seating, lighting and objet that have been added to the collection in the last couple of weeks. We found the set of eight English, William and Mary dining chairs with festive tartan upholstery in a Northamptonshire manor house and thought they’d be a great addition. One of our favourite pieces is the sweet French bar/drinks station, perfect for the party season! Our lamp obsession continues with some interesting styles to compliment our existing collection, especially the delicate modern marble shaded lamps which are achingly stylish. If you’d like any more information about any of the new stock items listed here, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
As my colleagues will undoubtedly confirm, I cannot resist a dressing up box. Show me a crown, a bonnet or a ball-gown and I’ll be happy all day.
Imagine my inner-princess’s excitement then when a friend and I had the chance to attend the Jane Austen Festival’s Annual Summer Ball in Bath last weekend.
Though we’re groaning under the weight of our gorgeous collection, we still can’t resist adding something new to excite our clients and our latest spree has been a particularly successful one.
We enjoyed a fabulous evening of champagne and delicious cake in The Marie Antoinette suite at The Ritz last week as part of the celebrations for the Unique Cakes by Yevnig 2017 Collection. And what spectacular cakes they were.
We’ve grown! We’ve been busy here at Farley HQ and have spread our already massive prop collection across another building so we’re now 25% percent bigger than before and have 100,000 square feet of showroom space packed to the gills with furniture, smalls, artwork, lighting and diningware for hire.
Welcome to the Farley website! We’d like to think that we’ve created a intuitive and user friendly website but there’s never any harm in giving a few extra pointers here and there so that you can really get the most out of the site. There are some great features and we’d hate for you to miss them so here’s a quick guide to the most important ones.
Trying to choose which beautiful images to use in our galleries was a tricky task. We think we’ve put together a selection that shows the range of our collection and the multitude of ways in which the individual pieces can be used. We couldn’t have done this without the help of the talented photographers that we’ve worked with over the years. Here’s a run down of the individuals and teams that have made up the bulk of our gallery images. As our stock evolves, so do our images, and no doubt new faces will be added, so check back if you want to know more.
With the largest collection of oil paintings, prints, watercolours, abstracts, engravings and sculptures, our Spiller department is one of the finest collections of art outside of a gallery (in our humble opinion!), and better yet, everything’s available to hire. Storing the collection and then finding particular pieces is a challenge but we think we’ve cracked it.
