In the Garden of My Dreams : The Art of Nathalie Lété

Nathalie Lété
In the Garden of My Dreams : The Art of Nathalie Lété

In the Garden of My Dreams : The Art of Nathalie Lete
ISBN: 9781579657215
Publication Date: 31 October 2017

If you've ever shopped in Anthropologie's homeware section, chances are you've picked up a piece adorned with Nathalie Lete's charming art. Nathalie has been creating ceramics, textiles, illustrations, and other artwork for numerous brands - most notably Anthropologie, Astier de Villatte, Uniqlo, Issey Miyake, and Godiva - for the past 20 years.

She is one of the most commercially successful French artists working today, whose aesthetic has captured the imagination of people from all over the world: her kitchenware, wallpapers, fabrics, furniture, fashion accessories, and sculptures are coveted items in countries like Japan, the United States, England, Germany, and France, among others.

This is Nathalie's first foray into the book world in her prolific 30-year career as an artist. She has gathered 160 of her favorite paintings into a magnum opus art book. Rooted in pop art and folklore, her work features magical, colorful, edgy depictions of nature scenes, birds, baby deer, kittens, flowers, dolls, children, and vintage toys. With rich, saturated full-page images, the world of Nathalie Lete unfolds on each page.

About the Author

Nathalie Lete was born in 1964 in France to a German mother and a Japanese father. She studied fashion design at the Arts Appliques Duperre and lithography at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. For the past 30 years, she has mixed different techniques and mediums in creating her art: paintings, ceramics, and textiles. She designs homeware items and creates commissioned art for many brands worldwide. Throughout her career, she has held independent exhibitions in Korea, China, Japan, the United States, France, Germany, and England, among other places. In 2015, a retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the Musee de la Piscine in R...