2024 highlights! Thank you for all your support
2024 has been a big year for Graham & Brown, and we wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on all the exciting highlights that have happened throughout the year. What a year it has been!
Iona studied International Business at Loughborough University, focusing on Marketing Strategy & Planning and Global Brand Management. Since she graduated, Iona secured a job with a London-based fashion start-up before moving to women’s contemporary fashion brand, RIXO. Where she was responsible for growing the brand’s community!
As a 4th generation Graham family member, she has lived and breathed the Graham & Brown brand since she was young. Iona is excited to bring her experience gained in the fashion industry, aware of the connections in trends between clothing and home interiors, to the Graham & Brown brand as it extends its range of products designed for the home.
The #grahamandbrown community is the driving force behind what we do, Iona enjoys building strong connections with our wonderful community to help our customers create loving homes they are proud of!
2024 has been a big year for Graham & Brown, and we wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on all the exciting highlights that have happened throughout the year. What a year it has been!
To quickly introduce myself, my name is Iona Graham, and I have excitingly joined Graham & Brown this year as its 4th generation, family member.
Founded by my great-grandfather Harold Graham and his best friend Henry Brown in 1946, I feel super proud and excited to have joined the team on this journey.
After 78 years, Graham & Brown is still a family-run, independent business, and every customer and order means so much to us, thank you!
2024 Highlights
Launching Design & Colour of the Year 2025
This year we are celebrating our cultural roots and British heritage, drawing inspiration from closer to home. We are proud to reveal the 2025 Design of the Year RIVINGTON FOLLY, and Colour of the Year ELDERTON. An ode to Graham & Brown’s Lancastrian heritage and embodying the symbiotic relationship between the natural world and the manmade, this year’s design has taken inspiration from Rivington Terraced Gardens, locally known as the lost garden.
With that in mind the in-house design studio has focused on our Craft Work trend, taking the time to create one off pieces, reusing old techniques and breathing life into each design.
Covered by leading publications such as Living, etc., Homes & Gardens, and from across the pond by our friends at Architectural Digest, the 2025 launch was enjoyed by our community all over the world!
Proudly, all our collections are designed in-house at our studio in Lancashire; the team take inspiration from our archive and design and colour trends to create these beautiful collections. Fun fact: Rivington Folly was hand-drawn by designer Vicky, spending over 4 weeks completing the design in fineliner.
London pop-up showroom
In September, we launched an incredible pop-up showroom located on Great Titchfield St., Soho, London. Over two weeks, we hosted our wonderful community of press, influencers & customers, celebrating various launches, workshops, talks and one-to-one customer appointments.
We celebrated the launch of our Design and Colour of the Year. Our Head of Design, Maryanne, did a fantastic inspirational Trends Talk explaining the artisan nature of our hand-drawn design!
With our community at the heart of our brand, we love hosting fun workshops to get people together, the morning included creating collage frames featuring the latest collection. We had a blast in London & it won’t be the last time you see us there… watch this space!
Designing our digital future
In line with customer demand for more environmentally friendly, design-led and digitally printed products, we have invested heavily in our ‘Factory of the Future’, which runs on renewable electricity. We have created the leading digital printing capability in the industry - a high-tech environment where the two worlds of creative design and digital printing come together to deliver bespoke wall murals and beautiful wallpapers!
Giving back
The company beat its £50K charity target this year, and many colleges from all over the business dedicated time and took on various exciting challenges to raise money, from climbing Kilimanjaro, charity bank off & winning the annual Blackburn & Darwen Youth Zone quiz – it’s been a team effort! Thank you to all our amazing colleagues for taking part and giving back to our community.
What’s next, we’re excited for 2025!
We have lots of exciting launches planned for 2025; the first includes a gorgeous new spring-summer collection launching in February. Each design has been created by our in-house studio by a talented team of artists and designers, inspired by the studio’s trend predictions for 2025 and an archive of 50,000 pieces.
We also can’t wait to continue building out our amazing #grahamandbrown community – we love to see how you all style your homes with Graham & Brown products all over the world – remember to tag us in your pictures and show us your home transformations, as it means the world to us and we love to see them, tag @grahamandbrown!