Tents
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Our practical, waterproof marquee exteriors are combined with a beautiful themed and ever-expanding range of tent interiors and coordinating furnishings that can be heated or cooled to ensure they feel as comfortable as they look, enabling us to create a perfect atmosphere for any event, regularly making it the 'most memorable' that any of the guests have ever attended!
Travel and experience have led us to develop from our original 'Arabian' influences to produce the current range of tents now available today;
Arabian
This contains traditionally embroidered Indian Rajasthani walls with bead and mirrorwork and is available with a choice of 3 different ceilings in red velvet, red cotton and now with the same bead and mirrorwork as the walls.
Perfect for Arabian Nights themed parties events requiring a good splash of colour.
15ft x 15ft up to 60ft x 60ft
Moulin Rouge
Inspired by the interior of the famous French dancehall, this is our red velvet chameleon tent that can be themed to transform it from the burlesque tent we created into the setting for a James Bond themed party with a Casino Royale entrance and games, Bond cut-outs and military props or a luxurious Moroccan lounge with the addition of brass lanterns, Moroccan leather poufes, Tea sets with glasses for traditional mint tea as well as palm trees and brass tray tables.
It's lustrous red velvet reflects light from the walls and ceiling and details in the interior include a gold tasseled swag around the eaves and mirrors in the roof lining.
15ft x 15ft to 30ft x 90ft
Bombay Boudoir
Transforming your party into a Bollywood wonderland, the Bombay Boudoir has a bright fuschia and burnt orange colour scheme, and incorporates embroidery and mirrorwork sewn into this intricate interior's walls and ceiling resulting in our most extravagant marquee interior yet. Perfect for creating the wow-factor at Mehndi and Henna parties or to set the scene for a sparkling Monsoon wedding.
Available sizes:15ft x 15ft to 60ft x 90ft
“Just a quick note to say thank you so much for supplying the splendid ‘Bombay Boudoir’ for Hannah's 21st. You have no idea how we much appreciated all the work that you and your team did to make the event such a success, and problem free! We had so much fun - a truly memorable evening and I know that Hannah will have so many happy memories.”
Purple Palace
This sumptuous tent is lined with purple velvet and has a Regency inspired crown detail on the walls in gold de florae velvet edged with gold and pink beading. The thick luxurious swags and gold tassles around the eaves of the tent envelop parties in decadence, make this an interesting alternative choice for 'casino' themed party as well as a sumptuous setting for a civil partnership.
Available sizes:15ft x 15ft to 30ft x 30ft
Cornish Cream
This ivory interiored tent twinkles with a ceiling of mirrors surrounded by silvery-blue block prints, and walls with an arch-inspired design, giving this understated interior an 'English Country Garden' feel making it the perfect wedding interior.
Available sizes:15ft x 15ft up to 30ft x 90ft
English Tea
Inspired by Lewis Carol's epic journey into a fantasy world in the 'Adventures of Alice in Wonderland' and our love of spending long afternoons enjoying high tea!
Six individually made, pastel-coloured appliquéd wall panels artistically depict white rabbits, roses, teapots and cake stands with a bunting floral bunting swag make it the perfect venue for the 2010 trend for Vintage weddings.
This tent is best accessorised with pretty floral tea sets on hand embroidered tablecloths, with table centre pieces of pastel vases full of meadow flowers, silver candlesticks draped with peals and bowls of old fashioned sweets. Why not hire some giant games and enjoy a wedding breakfast of high tea on the lawn interposed by a spot of postprandial croquet?
Available sizes:30ft x 30ft to 30ft x 60ft
Peacock
Peacock feather motifs are screen printed in pink and brown on a cool turquoise cotton background to create the wall design for this tent, with a turquoise velvet swag and ceiling rose fringed with pink tassels in the centre of this unique tent.
Available sizes:30ft x 30ft
Tent Exteriors
The exteriors of our tents are made from high quality canvas coated polyester to ensure they are 100% British weatherproof!
They are pale cream in colour making an interesting change from the usual white exteriors and have a distinctive sculped exterior with black piping detail to match the black guy ropes.
The marquee walls of the can be easily removed for a more open feel to the tent and in 2010 we are introducing arched Arabic window panels in order to allow guests to stay warm and dry inside the tent while continuing to admire the view.
The walls have two door panels measuring 5ft that can be rolled up to create entrances and doorways for caterers and toilets where necessary.
Making Tents
Every year we travel abroad to search for new ideas and to make tents and furniture and buy beautiful and unusual accessories to compliment our interiors, ensuring our offerings constantly evolve and we always have something new to offer you.
India is a favourite destination for these creative excursions as there is still a high level of handicrafts practised by the people and we enjoy working with their positive 'can do' attitude.
For the past 5 years we have been working with craftsmen and women to design and make much of the furniture and soft furnishings we use today.
We usually spend a couple of weeks looking around and talking to our suppliers and friends about what is new in the market before making moodboards on the particular themes/interiors we are designing around after which samples and collected and we decide whether block printing, embroidery, screen printing, appliqué or gathering effects will be used in the tents. After that we dye the fabrics, buy the trims, set about making the samples for our craftsmen to copy!
Block printing has become one of our favourite techniques to use in our tents due the organic softness of the finished effect that is only achieved by hand. The studio we work with in Jaipur, India gives employment to women who are either single mothers, or through unfortunate circumstances have become the family breadwinner, often ensuring the security of their families. This makes for a fun and friendly environment as we work alongside them, often singing along to Bollywood songs on the radio as we work.
We are always interested to hear of ideas you might have for new tents we could create....current thoughts we are considering at the moment are;
- Inca Tent (inspired by South American travels)
- a Midsummer Nights Dream interior (perfect for weddings)
- a William Morris/ English Country Garden inspired tent
- a Butterfly themed tent, taking ispiration from the delicate outline of these beautiful creatures and converting it into an illustrated design
- Indonesian themed tents