Nathalie Farman-Farma was raised in Paris, France, and Greenwich, Connecticut. She studied classics at Brown and Columbia before working as associate editor for The New Yorker. She founded her studio, Décors Barbares, in 2010 in London, where she lives with her husband Amir and their two children. Miguel Flores-Vianna has been a photographer, writer and editor for more than 20 years. His books include A Wandering Eye (Vendome) and Haute Bohemians (Vendome), named design book of the year by T magazine. His photography is regularly published in AD and Cabana. He lives in London.
Maximalists will drool over Nathalie Farman-Farma's richly-layered interiors, swathed in the patterns of her fabric house, Decors Barbares. -- House Beautiful In devising the opulent fabrics and textiles for her company, Decors Barbares, Nathalie Farman-Farma often looks to fairytales for inspiration, as well as particular regions of the world, such as Persia, Central Asia, and Russia. . . . Her interiors are real-life fairytales. -- Milieu Decors Barbares costars [Farman-Farma's] personal spaces from the atelier at her London residence to an 1890s house in Greenwich, Connecticut. The addresses may be far-flung, but each celebrates her Silk Road chic with a spirited marriage of the vibrant palettes of Central Asia to the plum silhouettes of 19th-century Europe. -- Architectural Digest Of all the big-gun design books coming out this season, none has been more hotly anticipated than that of the textile designer and alchemist Nathalie Farman-Farma. The pages of Decors Barbares: The Enchanting Interiors of Nathalie Farman-Farma depict a world of pattern upon pattern, of nostalgia for a past that Mongiardino made grand, Zeffirelli made fantastical, but only Nathalie made sweet, cool, and relatable. -- Elle Decor Nathalie Farman-Farma draws from ancient Eastern and Western influences with scholarly respect and stylish abandon. -- T: The New York Times Style Magazine